anscox
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Depends on the type used, they can go either.
Make sure your state isn't on the "vet only" list or it won't matter if the dog has had a shot or not. Here in TN it has to be done by a vet. Of coarse, if you do it yourself here and the animal is attacked by a rapid animal then it at least protects the dog, but if anyone says your dog attacked or bit them they will still be quarantined.
We have the vet do it just to be safe. My parents have a lazy ol' house dog that is 1/2 pyr, 1/2 golden retriever. He just goes outside to lay on the porch. They live, over 1500 ft. off the main road in the country, dead end too. An older lady (meaner then a hornet) up the road decided to go walking one day and walked down the private driveway while the dog was asleep on the porch. She came into my parents yard, and when Jake walked up to her she began beating him with her walking stick. The dog is very friendly at at 8 yrs. old has never had a problem with anyone. Well, this lady walks back up the driveway and the next day there is a cop at the door asking for the dog. He said that she had been bitten by Jake and had to go to the hospital, she was demanding the dog be destroyed. Long story short, not even the cops believed her. She claimed to have been biten on the butt so badly that it required stitches, She was NOT treated for any bite but the doctor said she had a rash like look to her butt. Her pants were not torn, (remember this dog is very large, 98 pounds), she was on private property, and was beating the dog at the time she said it happened! Of coarse she claimed to them that she doesn't even walk with a stick.. but when the cop came back to her house she was in her yard with stick in hand...
Anyways, Jake was UTD on his rabies shots and we had proof by the vet, who also backed up that the dog has never had a history of aggression. The cop knew she had lied luckily and after visiting with the dog several times and documenting his sweet temperment nothing was done about it.. but my parents still had to pay her hospital bill and for medication to ease her pain (I think a bullet would have been cheaper). They said though that without complete proof that it did NOT happen, had he not been current on his vaccines and documented they would have taken him.
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