anyone here ever had to get rabies shots?

The key here is "Why did the feral cat bite you?" If you were trying to handle the animal and it bit you, that is a natural response and doesn't suggest the cat was rabid. In this case, you should be more concerned about tetanus. If, on the other hand, the cat came out of nowhere and attacked you, that is the red flag for going to your doc and beginning the rabies vaccine series.

I can help you with this as a med student.

You may have heard that a rabies shot for a human consists of multiple shots given by extra large needles in a very painful area, such as through the belly button or somewhere else in the stomach. However, the modern rabies treatment is different from the old treatment and the rumors surrounding it.

I did receive multiple shots to prevent rabies, a total of three, and they were spaced out over time, not all done at once. They were given in my arm and the needle was no bigger than the one used for normal preventative vaccines. They hurt a little and my arm was a little sore afterwards, but it helped to keep it moving. They felt no worse than my tetanus shot.

Having a this type of rabies shot for prevention does not mean you can ignore a bite. Humans who have had the preventative series of shots will still need to get two doses, given on separate days, if they are bitten or receive an injury from an animal that breaks the skin, such as a scratch.

Generally, preventative rabies shots for humans are not given to people unless their job requires frequent contact with wild animals such as at the zoo, or with domestic animals with unknown histories, such as at the animal shelter. Vets may also get preventative rabies shots to protect them from possible exposure to the disease. Animals that can contract the rabies virus, mammals, are vaccinated as well.

Rabies shots given for prevention are a little different from the rabies treatment shots given after a bite from a possibly rabid animal. If you're bitten or scratched and you haven't received a preventative vaccine prior, the area and the number of initial shots varies according to where you were bitten. You will have to return for a series of multiple shots, as treatment is administered on separate days.

The old rabies treatment required 20-30 shots in the abdomen, The modern rabies treatment is generally a series of 5 shots, spaced out over time. After the initial shot given at the bite site, most adults will be given the rest of the shots in the shoulder muscle, children may receive them in the thigh.

No the only time Someone was biting me was after I put my teeth in him during a men's group never got a shot

..."removing a cats head is usually fatal"... Usually? It seems to me that decapitation is fatal in all cases.

I agree with your first answerer. Be aware of Cat Scratch Fever as well.

Good luck, I'll be thinking of you.

Schrodinger's cat is a zombie.