4 days ago
How one cute kitten led to our 72-hour holiday rabies scare
One of the joys of a summer holiday is finding adorable stray puppies scampering on beaches and helpless kittens mewling on cobbled street corners. They're grateful for every little fuss and breakfast buffet scrap.
Which is why my 16-year-old animal-mad son and I, during our trip to Morocco last month, were drawn to the cute grey kitten that hung around our hotel. With the desperately sad news of Yvonne Ford, 59 — who recently died from rabies after getting scratched by a Moroccan puppy — playing on my mind, I issued all the right diktats about not playing with it. But my wise words were ignored and, with a grim inevitability, the kitten scratched my son — a deep, juicy laceration that bled immediately — a few hours before we boarded the plane home.
