Missing dog's head finally arrives at lab

Over Veteran’s Day weekend, a dog’s head went missing for 24 hours.

A dog suspected of rabies bit a person in Whitman County and was later euthanized. Its head was removed by the WSU veterinary department and was to be sent to at state lab in Olympia for rabies testing.

The head was packaged and put on a bus just before Veteran’s Day weekend, according to an account from Phil Hagihara, environmental health specialist, at Tuesday’s county Board of Health meeting.

The dog’s head was due to arrive that Friday, but it did not.

So Whitman County health officials started calling around to try to fin...