“lucky to have suffered only minor scratches...”
still gonna need the shots.
I read an interview with some fellow once who had the shots, he said if he had it to do all over again, he’d rather die from rabies!
Maybe the interview you read was someone who had the older type injections that were given into the abdomen. Now they are just a little shot in the arm, no big deal. I gave a series of them about 20 years ago, at that time it was just a regular intramuscular injection, similar to a tetanus shot.