Animal Control Officer Bob Wisma

Animal Control Officer Bob Wisma gets ready to euthanize a skunk (below) that had taken up residence under The Fillmore Gazette and adjoining offices. Wisma used phenobarbitol to sedate the female skunk which was then taken to a Ventura County Animal Regulation laboratory, where its brain will be tested for rabies. Skunks are the second largest carrier of rabies, behind bats. The skunk had made the entire building, located at Sespe and
Orchard, a smelly affair for the last two weeks.