Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Get pets vaccinated and prevent rabies

Dr. Bob Bellamy inspects a kitten at the Bellamy
Harrison Animal Hospital on Wednesday.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Rabies is “relatively common” in the Moose Jaw area, according to local veterinarian Dr. Bob Bellamy.

“In my career, which spans 30 years or more, I’ve probably diagnosed it four or five times. I’ve had to take post-exposure rabies treatment four or five times. So it is certainly out there,” the veterinarian at Bellamy Harrison Animal Hospital said.

“Rabies is a significant disease and quite a scary disease from a veterinary perspective … Rabies, unfortunately, is a fatal disease in both animals and people.”

World Rabies Day, established in 2007, is on Saturday. It is intended to raise global awareness of the disease. He said it’s important to vaccinate pets.

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