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I have bad generalized anxiety and am about chew off my own arm right now from total dread and fear.
We have raccoons in the yard regularly. In the city 5 miles away from us, people are currently being treated for rabies due to aggressive acting raccoons.
I have regularly taken care of ferals over the years.
There was a young cat who is very pretty and he showed up two weeks ago.
Unlike the ferals who are dead silent, he would vocalize at me loudly.
Until I saw his privates (he is not neutered) I thought he was a mama cat crying at me to help find their babies.
Since he was so pathetic and seemed scared to be outside, I decided to bring him into my basement until I could arrange to get him neutered and checked out by a vet.
He walked in the back door on his own.
He was still overly affectionate and vocal inside.
When I tried to exit the basement, he swatted and his claw caught my wrist and drew a tiny amount of blood, but enough to bleed for a few minutes.
I cleaned it with an alcohol toner.
I am now completely having an unhinged meltdown.
I don't know what to do.
My friends are all freaking me out. Telling me I only have 3 days or less to get a serious of 4 shots.
I need to calm down. Can someone please give me some sage advice here?
The cat is still in the basement and has quieted down now. He peed in the cat pan(which makes me think he was discarded by an owner since he was so blase about using the cat pan)
He ate some food. But he has NOT had any water. One of my friends said that is a bad sign and he may be avoiding it.
But aside from the tiniest fresh cut on his back paw he looks very healthy.
I gave him capstar for fleas, but it appears he didn't even have any fleas.
Sadly my mind is creating wild scenarios that the raccoon out back scratched him and then he scratched me and had rabies possibly.
He was was definitely around the raccoons.
How should I view this whole situation? Go get shots? I don't have a doctor or insurance currently.
We have raccoons in the yard regularly. In the city 5 miles away from us, people are currently being treated for rabies due to aggressive acting raccoons.
I have regularly taken care of ferals over the years.
There was a young cat who is very pretty and he showed up two weeks ago.
Unlike the ferals who are dead silent, he would vocalize at me loudly.
Until I saw his privates (he is not neutered) I thought he was a mama cat crying at me to help find their babies.
Since he was so pathetic and seemed scared to be outside, I decided to bring him into my basement until I could arrange to get him neutered and checked out by a vet.
He walked in the back door on his own.
He was still overly affectionate and vocal inside.
When I tried to exit the basement, he swatted and his claw caught my wrist and drew a tiny amount of blood, but enough to bleed for a few minutes.
I cleaned it with an alcohol toner.
I am now completely having an unhinged meltdown.
I don't know what to do.
My friends are all freaking me out. Telling me I only have 3 days or less to get a serious of 4 shots.
I need to calm down. Can someone please give me some sage advice here?
The cat is still in the basement and has quieted down now. He peed in the cat pan(which makes me think he was discarded by an owner since he was so blase about using the cat pan)
He ate some food. But he has NOT had any water. One of my friends said that is a bad sign and he may be avoiding it.
But aside from the tiniest fresh cut on his back paw he looks very healthy.
I gave him capstar for fleas, but it appears he didn't even have any fleas.
Sadly my mind is creating wild scenarios that the raccoon out back scratched him and then he scratched me and had rabies possibly.
He was was definitely around the raccoons.
How should I view this whole situation? Go get shots? I don't have a doctor or insurance currently.