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darkace77450 posted...

Make sure you clean those scratches well.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23537-cat-scratch-fever

I did. I rinsed the wound after it happened and then used disinfectant once the snake situation was done just in case.

Just to explain the crying thing for what it's worth, it was a mixture of:
-I'm a very anxious person in general.
-I've very explicitly had a phobia of snakes since I was a kid when a snake chased me when I was out playing.
-With the strange clicking sound I heard and me not getting a good look at the snake, I was pretty convinced that it was a rattlesnake. I now know that it wasn't (it was some black snake), but in my panic, I was pretty sure it was.
-I was worried that the snake could have bitten my cat since she was near it.
-I wasn't sure who to call or what to do in the moment.

Basically, it was just pure, unfiltered panic with a lot of questions rushing through my head, and I just sort of broke down briefly.