Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
The statement sounds credible to me. They've just been vaccinated, so they'll have a titer from that forming. If you're trying to avert quarantine by claiming an existing titer, can you see how this would be impossible now? They are following the "exception" to euthanasia, as described by the Compendium on Animal Rabies. I'd be thankful they didn't insist on euthanasia and plead ignorance to quarantine. And it actually sounds like a looser quarantine than normal, if you'd able to handle the dogs. If the purpose of the quarantine is to watch for slow onset signs of rabies from the raccoon exposure, that's risky to let you handle the dogs.