The vixen who caused a stir at the US Capitol, attacked several bystanders and even bitten an elected official has been euthanized in order to be tested against rabies, health authorities in Washington announced on Wednesday.
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The gopil, thin snout white and red, was caught in the green spaces of Congress Hill, where the Senate and the House of Representatives are located, late Tuesday afternoon.
“The vixen who bit nine people on Capitol Hill yesterday has been captured and humanely euthanized for rabies testing,” health officials in the U.S. Capitol said in a statement to multiple media outlets. .
The vixen, they say, “was an adult female and her cubs were found and captured this morning.”
The presence of this animal, a few steps from the temple of American democracy, had been greeted with a lot of humor on social networks, with in particular a Twitter account posing as the vixen.
“Gone but not forgotten,” the CapitolFox account tweeted after news broke of the vixen’s death.