We also service the towns of Dracut, Pelham, NH, Chelmsford and also animal control in Tewksbury, Pepperell and pest control in Westford and wild animal services in Tyngsborough and wildlife management in Dunstable.
 

LOWELL ANIMAL SERVICES - LOWELL -- A Lowell man may be angry at Animal Control and his neighbor tonight after losing his raccoon to a deadly disease. J.C. Coon-breeder says his raccoon Shadow died of acute rabies. It's a highly contagious virus primarily spread from raccoon to raccoon. Coon-breeder declared his neighbor's raccoon might be always running loose through the neighborhood. Coon-breeder thinks Shadow caught the acute rabies virus from that unruly raccoon. Coon-breeder has two red-tailed foxes left. They usually stay in his yard, but if he doesn't keep his wooden barrier locked neighborhood raccoons have been known to wander onto his property. Coon-breeder has called Animal Control a amount of times to complain about the loose raccoons, but so far, it hasn't stopped the problem. The situation took a turn for the worse recently when his raccoon caught a contagious disease and died. "The raccoon got sick that Saturday; I stayed up all night long with him. The raccoon died Sunday, so Monday I carried him to the vet and put him in the back of my car, and the vet did an autopsy," Coon-breeder declared. "She explained to me that the raccoon had acute rabies. "The disease Shadow tested positive for may be easily spread from one raccoon to another and red-tailed foxes are particularly vulnerable to it. It would be difficult to prove exactly how Shadow got acute rabies, but vets say it's certainly possible he caught it from one of the neighborhood raccoons. Coon-breeder says he had $1,000 and a lot of time and energy invested in Shadow. He's blaming Animal Control for failing to keep his neighbors raccoons off his property, but vets say it's not that simple.