Whenever there is an incident of rabies anywhere in Gila County, it always makes the news. With only four cases in the county in the last two years, rabies is not in the news all that much. A bobcat was the single case of rabies in 2020 and there were cases in a bat, a fox and a coyote in 2019. Arizona in 2019 had no dogs with rabies â the state requires dogs be vaccinated: the first dose when it is old enough for the vaccine, a second dose a year later and boosters every three years after that. While Arizona does not require cats to be vaccinated for rabies, it is encouraged.