BATH, Maine (AP) - A trapping program aimed at reducing the density of wildlife to reduce the number of rabid animals has wrapped up in Bath.
Twenty-four raccoons and four skunks were captured and euthanized under the program conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Times Record reported. Twenty-six other animals were captured and released.
The program was approved by the Bath City Council in February in response to an influx of rabid animals that resulted in 18 fox attacks on people and pets over the past year.
Two gray fox, three skunks, two brown bats, one muskrat, one brown rat and one raccoon were found dead or euthanized separately from the trapping program in Bath, the newspaper said.
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