The crazed critter was later captured and euthanized.
This otter infected with rabies terrorized the city of Jupiter, Florida, for several hours last week, sending a man to a hospital.Joseph Scaglione, 74, was mauled by the crazed otter just outside his backyard last week.“[I] Looked up, no hawk, look back down, and there was a brown head sticking up over the bank of the pond,” the man recalled. “And at first, I didn’t know it was an otter, but then I realized that’s an otter.
Scaglione said he started backing towards his gate, but when he raised his hand to close it, the crazed critter lunged at him, making the septuagenarian stumble and fall. The aquatic mammal then proceeded to maul the victim, sinking its sharp teeth into his legs, hands and arms a total of 41 times.The otter savaged Scaglione’s pinky on his right hand.“My pinky is the worst. I have two puncture wounds,” Scaglione said, showing his wounds. “One is on the corner of where the cuticle was.”Meanwhile, the otter continued terrorizing the Jupiter neighborhood, attacking a pet dog as it was being walked by its owners with a young child.
Finally, some locals put an end to the aquatic mammal’s ferocious rampage by trapping it inside a trash bin. Animal control officers captured the otter after it attacked a dog in Jupiter and was corralled by local residents.Animal control officers were then called to cart the otter away and collect a blood sample from it. On Saturday, a test confirmed that the animal had rabies, said Capt. David Walesky, the assistant director of Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control.
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