Dog attacks

Don't know why I did not remember this earlier. When my sister bought her house in Highland Lakes NJ it was still pretty rural. She was walking on a trail with a friend and got attacked by a feral cat. She had a dozen or so scratch/bite wounds. Her friend convinced her to go to the hospital. She had to go thru a series of pretty painful shots. A week or so later the cat that bit her was found dead. Don't know how they figured it out but the cat had rabies, good thing my asshat sister got the shots.

if they have the animal, they kill it, cut it open and look for negri bodies in the brain (black spots)
if they dont have the animal, then your only recourse is to take the shots preventively

little know fact, the main source of rabies infections in the US are....skunks
stinks, doesnt it?