Re: fear of rabies post hols
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Re: fear of rabies post hols
Do you have a previous login on here then?
Re: fear of rabies post hols
yes - i just spent 20 mins trying to remember it and could not as the email i used was one I closed down. Hope that is oK!
Re: fear of rabies post hols
Re: fear of rabies post hols
You posted a lot of really great rationale yourself as to why this is your anxiety, when you start to feel anxious try coming back here and read points a-e that you wrote yourself and remember all of the reasons this is an improbable scenario.
I'm sure the hotel was crowded, anything could have brushed against you, a person, a tablecloth, a dress etc.
Re: fear of rabies post hols
Thanks. If anything it was either my sons foot brushing me or the wind. Either way I am pretty certain that even if this cat did brush me the chances of it having rabies and secondly it biting me without knowing it or seeing it would be zero wouldn’t it? I am not an expert on transmission but I had a few dried up pimples so even then I can’t see how saliva got into bloodstream or mucus membranes. If anyone is knowledgable let me know but just repeating the facts of no visible bite; no sharp scratch ; no blood ; no wound ; and it was a young cat in a restaurant in a hotel is beginning to help my brain relax a bit!!
Re: fear of rabies post hols
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Originally Posted by
twtm2002
Thanks. If anything it was either my sons foot brushing me or the wind. Either way I am pretty certain that even if this cat did brush me the chances of it having rabies and secondly it biting me without knowing it or seeing it would be zero wouldn’t it? I am not an expert on transmission but I had a few dried up pimples so even then I can’t see how saliva got into bloodstream or mucus membranes. If anyone is knowledgable let me know but just repeating the facts of no visible bite; no sharp scratch ; no blood ; no wound ; and it was a young cat in a restaurant in a hotel is beginning to help my brain relax a bit!!
I hope you are doing okay by now. If not, remind yourself that: 1. it wasn't a cat that touched your leg; 2. even if it was a cat, you felt it's coat, not a lick or a bite; 3. even if saliva somehow managed to get on its coat, you didn't have an open wound where it touched; 4. even if it was a cat, and had saliva on its coat, and touched you on the open wound, the probability that a normally behaving cat would have or transmit rabies is one in many millions.
I hope that helps!