A man looking for a house got a bigger scare than a bad kitchen when his house hunt ended in a run-in with a rrabid accoon. It ended with a raccoon bite and rabies treatment, the Connecticut Post reports.
A real estate agent was showing a man a partially completed house on Mile Common Saturday afternoon when a raccoon bit them and ran away, the newspaper reports.
The raccoon ran away only to come back at 3 p.m. and tried to attack a man walking by the property, police said.
That man fought back and kicked the raccoon. His kick scared the raccoon and it ran off.
The raccoon met its end when a police officer later shot and killed it.
The two people who were bitten and the man who kicked the animal have received rabies treatments as a precautionary measure at an area hospital, according to police.
The raccoon’s body was sent to a state lab for testing to determine if it was rabid. It was.
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Kelly Fitch, Easton's animal control officer, told the Connecticut Post Thursday that the state Department of Health's test confirmed what officials suspected.
"That behavior was very typical of a rabid raccoon," Fitch told the newspaper "There was almost no question that it would come back positive."
