I was petting a very cute but a stray cat and got bitten by her. I was talking to someone while doing so, probably something it didn’t like and communicated by biting. It’s a superficial one.

I got very nervous when this happened because I don’t usually touch animals but yesterday she came and sat beside me and I felt she is asking me to be pet so I did. Anyway I got nervous because I have heard of several bad consequences of cat bites. Washed it with for a min and applied sanitizer (usually advised to wash for 15min under warm water and this added to the nervousness when I got to know about it)

After three hours of this incident, went to the emergency clinic. I got tetanus and rabies vaccination. I would have a course of four injections

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Through the community I got to know that cat bites usually lead to bacterial infection and it usually shows up within 10 to 18 hours.

The picture that I have posted was of the status of the bite after 12 hours. Mine looks fine thankfully but I do want to thank the community as I was able to take it serious and took quick action.