Xera

I was on a home visit last year and I saw a couple of kids hitting a cat with a stick. She was hurt pretty bad by the time I saw what they were doing. I went to pick her up so that I could take her to the vet to try to get her fixed up. I knew when I did I was being stupid, but I didn't want to leave her there so the kids could go back to torturing her as soon as my back was turned. Of course she bit me, I carried her all the way back to my van with her fang stuck in my finger. She bit all the way through the fingernail in my right index finger.

She died, she was already hurt pretty bad before the kids got a hold of her, and I was able to get her tested for rabbies, which she did not have. The vet did tell me that there had been no cases of rabies in a cat in Oklahoma in a very long time. I don't recall exactly how long, but I wanted to be safe since she was already dead anyway.

I had to get a tetnus shot, but that was it. Tetnus shots HURT. For two days my arm ached worse than my finger. Actually even with the puncture going in so deep my finger never really hurt as much as the scratch marks that I got on my arm.

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