I had a feral cat take up in my garage one winter and it was so full of stuff I couldn't catch it...so I started to put milk out for it and then progressed to cat food. After a bout a week, it let me approach it but not touch it...That cat was scrawny, had runny eyes and looked sick as can be..I wanted to get it to the vet cause I let my dog out via the garage door...
I was able to grab it one time and had forgotten to put on my leather gloves. Grabbed it from behind the front legs and it still was able to put its head down and latch onto my pointer finger. It didn't let go until I threw it in the box I had waiting for when I caught it...
Vet said with a bite to take it too the animal shelter in the near by town...By the time I got to town, the bite was still oozing blood and the finger swollen...The public health department called me and said to get to the doctor within 72 hours and of course it was on a saturday...
Got an emergency appointment with the doctor monday and by then I was shocked that my whole hand except the pinky and thumb was swollen big time...(took all the old wrinkles out of my hand :O)
The doctor put me on antibiotics for 10 days and said cat bites can be worse than dog bites because their teeth can actually go into the bone and leave a nasty bone infection. I did get a shot along with the prescription...
They kept the cat for 10 days to see if it had rabies, but was notified by the health department that no rabies but they did euthanize it and sent the head to Lansing for testing...
Hope you went to the doctor just in case after the bites.Those bites can be as bad as stepping on a rusty nail..
Yeah, cat bites are nasty. My grandmother got an infection from being bitten one of her strays (she fed every cat around the neighborhood, plus her own that would come and go as they pleased). Those little teeth are like needles.
As for my attack, yes, I had a series of rabies shots, as well as x-rays of my hand and arm just in case. Unfortunately, I was unable to catch the dogs, and animal control never came, even though they called me to ask about the dogs. I told them the dogs were a nuisance and obviously dangerous, and I even gave them the address of where I usually see them, but nothing was ever done. Sometimes when I go jogging through that neighborhood, I see one or two of them. They are mean and very brave. I would hate to see what happens if they get a hold of a child, but hey, our city is “no kill” now, so they don’t pick up strays anymore! If I thought I could get rid of them, I would, but they are too fast and too mean to handle.