Charlottesville Animal Control officers captured a fox yesterday in a trap set in the Lambeth Field area. Animal Control took the fox to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to be euthanized and sent the animal to the health department for rabies testing this morning.\nThe fox acted timidly after capture and did not exhibit signs of aggression, Animal Control Officer Bobby Durrer said. It has not been identified as the animal that may have attacked students last week, he said, and Charlottesville Health Department Doctor Lilian Peake explained that it would be unlikely for the same animal to be caught.\n"If a fox had been rabid at the time of the bite a week ago, it would be unusual for it to still be alive right now," she said, noting that sick animals usually die within a few days.\n"We're just having [the captured fox] tested ... because we found him up by Lambeth Field," Durrer said. The results will help determine if the fox attacked other animals in the area, Peake said.\nUniversity police have decided to leave the traps out at least until they receive the test results, University Police Lieut. Melissa Fielding said. She added that "the same advice still applies; that if [people] see a fox or another animal, not to approach it. We ask that they call the police immediately with an exact location of the animal."\n-compiled by Katherine Raichlen
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