Freestone Co, Tx - Obit for The Mad Dogs of Dr. James Issac Bonner
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Freestone Co, Tx - History - The Mad Dogs of Dr. James Issac Bonner


Fairfield Recorder newspaper - Sept 2, 1887 edition 

"Mad Dogs
A dog belonging to Mr. J. I. Bonner of our town showed signs of hydrophobia
Tuesday going about town biting every dog that came its way.  It was decided
that he was mad and the doctor had him and another valuable dog killed at once.
For fear of a sad accident, let everyone watch his dogs carefully for two or
three weeks; and where a dog is known to have been bitten, it ought to be
promptly killed. Dogs are much valued sometimes but the risk is too great to
always wait and see if the bitten dogs become diseased.  Dogs have been known
to go mad a month after they were bit, that is, after they had been turned
loose after they had been tied or kept confined.  The first premonitory signs
of rabies, we believe, are the emitting of a frothy slobber from the mouth, a
disposition to be restless, and then snapping at everything in its way."