[AT] they're cute but be careful...

[Mattias Kessén]

Last year when we were moving. One of our cats didn't think so, so it bit me
through the leather glove and my index finger. I have been bitten by cats
before without any problems but anyway it seemed really bad so I cleaned the
wound with Jägermeister (all other antiseptic was at the new place). I kept
moving and when I opened the cage at the new place and the cat named Ozzy
ran and kept running never to be seen again. That was probably a wise
decision because of what followed. The next day my left hand was real
swollen and had like two blue/black lines twirling around my arm. So I went
to the doctor got some super antibiotics to eat for two weeks and was
ordered to keep my hand high and still. Great!
It worked out well but we were cleaning out the old house to sell it so I
remember cleaning all the windows with only one hand. Yes I have a wife but
she had given birth to our youngest the same week.

Mattias

2010/10/31 Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com>

> Cats suck. When I was a teenager I had a biopsy because the doctors
> thought I had Hodgkins Disease. Turned out I had "cat scratch fever",
> presumably from our housecat.
>
> As I type this I have a scratch across my hand from the cat we have
> now, but I would not tolerate a bite from a cat any more than I would
> from a dog. Playing around with a pet and having an accidental scratch
> is one thing. If my dog bit me, he would be terminated, as would a
> cat.
>
> I hope you keep your finger.
>
> Warren
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