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boring Fauquier County alone last year. 38 cases of rabies in animals—both wild and domestic—were verified and nine people were exposed to the disease, requiring the painful and lengthy series of immunization shots. Enforcement of licensing laws will help prevent further spread of rabies since proof of current innoculation is required prior to purchase of dog tags. Bruce noted.
The warden has a secondary problem with persons who buy licenses for their dogs but fail to attach the tags to the collars. “If they care about their dogs, they'll put the tags on. Then if I pick up the dog, it takes me just a matter of minutes to find out who it belongs to and I can call the owner right away."’ If he can’t determine ownership. Bruce noted, he keeps an animal only five days before destroying it.
Many of the people he approaches about unlicensed dogs claim that the animal just showed up at their house, believing that this excuse somehow absolves them from responsibility to purchase tags. Bruce poted that according to law, "if a dog's been at'your place for two weeks, it’s considered to be your dog."
Bruce, who has been a warden since 1959. recalls that when he was first appointed. Judge Rayner V. Snead told him that he didn't believe he could ever collect all the strays in the county. "I don’t ever expect to get them all." Bruce said this
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