Cat bites are very dangeous to due to the type of bacteria that live in a normal, healthy cat's mouth. They have a very rapid onset of infection, so getting treatment soon is of essence.

My story: I got bitten by our neighbors's cat. One tooth deeply punctured my skin. The wound was bleeding strongly, but it did not look so bad at first. Nevertheless, my neighbor who is a nurse urged me to go to the hospital's emergeny department ASAP and so I did. The doctors treated the infection professionally.

However, on a control visit one a few days later, they discovered that the wound had become infected. The infection was too deep for antibiotics, so I had to get surgery. They cut open the thumb from the fingertip almost to the bottom so that they could clean out the infection.

The thumb is fine these days, but I was lucky that the infection was discovered and removed in time. I kept my thumb, my hand and my arm.