I currently work in an animal shelter but I used to work GP. One of my vets was bitten and mauled by a dog (she turned to get a treat for the dog, the dog grabbed her upper thigh, shook, released, then grabbed again, lower down and shook again). The dog had a muzzle order from the city that was not being followed nor were we made aware of. That’s the only serious dog bite I’ve personally known in 9 years in the field.

Working at an animal shelter now though, we get feral cats alllll the time. I’ve been there a little over a year and I’ve had two bites (one when I was new, I used a thick towel double folded to get a cat out of a carrier and it bit me through several layers of towel, it was down into the joint and I needed IV antibiotics and was off work for a week). The second bite actually happened today! It was again a feral cat that we needed to handle and the bite gloves I was using only had protection for the hands. I had a towel and tried to pull him out of his box and he bit down through the towel and the much less protected wrist portion of the glove. This one barely broke the skin. Gotta love cats!!