“Bite” story here.
I have an old-fashioned (‘50s’) kitchen table. On each corner are two legs that condense down into one (well, actually next to each other). They look like a “V” at each corner.
One day, my Ziva kitty jumped off the kitchen table and SOMEHOW caught her leg in the “V.” She was screaming and thrashing about so I tried to free her. While I was doing so, she scratched and then bit my toe (not her fault, she was in pain). I got her out, and she ran downstairs. I went down there to find her with a hind leg dangling.
I got her into a travel crate and drove 50 miles to the emergency vet clinic. (It was a Sunday, of course.) When I got there, I told them I would have to hold her as they gave her a sedative. As she relaxed, I told them what had happened, and they recommended me going to a walk-in medi-clinic because I had been bitten and scratched.
The medi-clinic did what they needed to, took my insurance, asked me questions, swabbed me clean (don’t think I needed a tetanus shot then, but I forget), and sent me on my way. I picked up Ziva. She had dislocated her rear leg, torn some tendons, and had wrapped it up. (They recommended surgery to repair the tendons to be done by another clinic, but that is not important to THIS story.)
The next day, I got a knock on my door. It was someone from our County Health Department. The incident had been reported to them by the emergency vet clinic (which was in a different County). He asked to see Ziva; I got her out of the crate where she was being kept quiet and showed him.
He asked what happened (confirmed what was sent to him), said to not let her outside, to keep her in quarantine for 10 days. I told him that my cats are NEVER allowed out (true). He reiterated that he would be back in ten days. He did come back then, noted that Ziva wasn’t frothing at the mouth with rabies, and he and I signed off on the incident.
(By the way, by the third day, Ziva had removed her wrapped up “cast” herself, and I, after finding out that the surgery cost would START at $1800, decided not to have it done. The injury healed by itself and to this day, there is no limp or limitation caused by that accident that day.)