:O I know people always say make sure to clean it really good when a cat scratches you etc. I'm one of those who was raised being told "to rub some dirt in it" (for those of you not familiar with the phrase its just a figure of speech basically meaning man up, suck it up). My arms are literally covered in scars (mostly old) from my first cat who liked to play rough and from when kittens don't know any better to keep their claws in yet. There have been a couple times where the scratches were actually pretty deep or large. As many times as I've been scratched, hundreds if not thousands, I've never had one get really infected. Sure the redness for a day or two just like if you get a paper cut and don't put anything on it. Thinking about it, it makes sense for their claws to have a lot of bacteria because they use litterboxes. Never realized how serious it was.