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Hi I Have A Question About Rabies....my Cat I Found
Hi I have a question about rabies....my cat I found the kitten about 2 years ago now that she is an adult after having her first batch of kittens that she took off and deserted she got really skinny after that and she has been like that weight pretty much all year after those kittens and in this time she has also gotten into some fights with the neighborhood cats and what looks like maybe mites on her nose when she lost some hair and has some markings on her face hair like scratch or poke marks maybe flea bites I am not sure I tried to stay away from her I just feed her maybe once a day just to make sure she gets fed sometimes I probably don't feed her enough she has no shots because I wasn't really planning on keeping her she just kind of hangs around so I feed her to make sure she's eating something well tonight she must have been more hungry because I did not feed her much earlier in the day and when I opened my front door she came walking into my house looking for food well I did not want her in my house cuz I don't want fleas so the quickest thing I thought to do was grab a piece of tortilla from My taco that I had it in my hand and lured her back outside but as I did that she jumped up after the tortilla and tried to take it out of my fingers and her claw caught my finger really quickly I felt it but couldn't see any scratch or poke so I went straight to the bathroom and sprayed my finger with peroxide to try and find if there was any broken skin couldn't really find any but finally I did see a little bit of foaming in one little spot on my knuckle so I rubbed at it a bit to try and make sure it got in there and see if there was anything deep doesn't look like it's deep it kind of just looks like a little peeling of the outer layer of skin so nothing that broke skin enough to create blood but if she had something like rabies or some other virus could I catch it that way?there are some opossums around and rats we used to have skunks a while back but I have not seen any this year we once had a raccoon hung around but that was a few years ago I have not seen a raccoon again untill I saw the neighbor's cat chasing one down my driveway that was back in June 2016 I think it is now October 2016 so because I don't know if she has anything or if it was possible that I could have caught something from her Lite scratch I have refused to nurse my daughter tonight she's old enough to not be nursing but she still does so I had to tell her no because I was afraid I could have something I was trying to be very careful making her food tonight but I realized when I served it to her that I lightly blew on it to cool it down if I had something and she ate that taco could she get it something like rabies I don't think any spit came out when I blew on it it was just air but still also my other question is can hydrogen peroxide or bleach or even alcohol kill the virus on the wound so you do not get it because I actually put all three on my finger LOL even though there was no opening that I could see please get back to me with some answers to my questions thanks
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Hi I Have A Question About Rabies....my Cat I Found