UPDATE AT CTV Jan 25:  http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080124/Rabies_alert_080124/20080124/?hub=TorontoHome

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This is a horrid story.  An infant pup purchased at a fleamarket at Hwy 27 and Dixon (near Toronto airport) died in its cage after the new owners dumped it at the Toronto Humane Society when they couldn't afford treatment.

I wonder if this is the same fleamarket where Rambo (the dog on death row in Mississauga) was purchased?

Millers from near Owen Sound sold the poor tyke to an obviously well screened home.

Anyway, rabies has been virtually eradicated in domestic animals around here but the good old millers are keeping it alive.

Here's the story from City TV, please pass it on.  I sure hope they nail this miller because it can spread quickly.  Pup plays with other animals, goes to dog park - you get the picture.

Catch that miller and lock him up!  And stop selling puppies at fleamarkets and in pet shops, will you?

Seriously, this is worth running?

Lee Hopkins, 70, put his dog Precious, a Pekinese/Shitzu mix, out on a chain at about 9:30 p.m. Dec. 23 in front of his Somerset subdivision home when he said it was attacked and killed by another dog.

"I let her outside to go potty and this blasted thing came out of nowhere and attacked her," Hopkins said. "It was dark outside so I don't know what it was, but I think it was probably a Pit Bull."

Probably.

Of course, they then decided to visit people who own a 'pit bull' in the neighbourhood just to harass grill check with them.