I have a couple of rabies questions. Who is responsible for coming to your house to kill & pick up an animal that was caught by my dogs and could possibly have rabies? Who is responsible for taking the suspected rabies animal to have it tested for conformation?

The reason I ask these questions is that I had recently went thru HELL with these above cited issues but no one would come and help me. My brother was over my house during the day around 10:30 am to do some work on his truck and he had let my dogs out into my 2 acres fenced in yard. He had heard a commotion behind the garage and looked to find that 2 of my three dogs had a raccoon like it was a toy. He did say that it did not make any attempt to get away from them. He got the dogs away and put them in the house. He than called me to tell me and said that it was not moving. I made some quick phone calls to animal control and dep and both said call the other it is not their responibility. I asked my brother if he can trap it in a cage without touching it and he was able to. He told me that he came into no contact with it at all. In the next 3-4 hours, I was tried to get anybody to help me out. By the third call back to DEP, I was told that if I can safely discharge a firearm at my house to go ahead and do it. I told the lady that I am within the 500 feet law of discharging the firearm and she said that she didn't hear a thing. I had tried to get ECONN a try and they told me that it would be about 3 or so days till they could come out. What was I to do feed the dam thing till they got there. By the fourth call to animal control, the person said that she would have to call the boss to get direction of what to do. I had got a hold CT Heath Department and they told me all they need is the head to test for rabies. Once again another dumb answer to the problem. The only person that had really helped me was a lady in the Health department lab. All this calling had me pretty ticked off that my taxes goto all these departments and no one would help out. When I got home, I had come to a point that I would kill it and take the animal up to Hartford for testing. The good thing was that it was dead when I checked on it. So the issue of who to kill it was taken care of. I was going to call the police to get thier take on the use of firearm 500ft but since it was dead I didn't have to. When my wife came home she had taken care of what to do with the dogs. Our vet said get over there ASAP to have them checked out and rabies booster shots. I had asked them if they could help me with dealling with the dead animal since noone else would. They got the paperwork for me that lab lady said i would need to get it tested. The vet had no problem getting the paperwork and filling it out for me. After getting home from there I went out to the shed where it was and put the dead raccoon into double HD trash bags using rubber gloves and took it up to Hartford. Luckly that they have a outside drop box. Sometime during going to there and back animal control called and said leave the dead animal in a bag by the road and they would come by to pick it up in the morning. Another dumb answer, lets leave a dead animal by the road for either another animal to fease on it or a kid play with it during the night. After 2 days animal control called me back saying that it tested POSITIVE for rabies so now my dogs are on lock down for 45 days. Animal control got some information from the Health Department on rabies to pass to me and she kept a copy for them since they have never delt with this before. That sounded kind of funny to me, animal control not having delt with rabies before. I asked the lady if she was going to inform the people in the surrounding area and it was stated that it would not be neccessary. My wife said the heck with that and called some of the neigbors just to inform them that we had a raccoon with rabies and to just be aware that there may be other animals with rabies around.
This whole ordeal just pissed me off because this is the fourth time it has happened to me and no one had taken responsibility to deal with a possible rabies animal. The three previous times the animal was NEGITIVE for rabies. They are quick to take my tax money but not to quick to help out in this type of a situation. Can you please shed some light on who the responsiblity falls on when you have a animal that may have rabies.
thanks
glenn