Thanks Barbara for helping Kim. Kim, yes, he was walking along the bookcase hutch in my office (essentially a bookcase with a door that opens upward and over the top of the bookcase) he being the graceful boy that he is, slipped while walking along there, and his paw got caught in the groove between the door and front of the bookcase. He fell, hanging upside down while his paw was still caught in the gap. Mom saw it happen. I wasn't even in the room, and she tried to catch him and free his paw. He of course reacted in pain and frear and bit into mom. I never saw anything like it -- bood just pouring from her wrist. He clamoped around her wrist GOOD.... both top and bottom of her wrist were punctured. As soon as I saw it, I ran to turn the faucet on in the kitchen, ran for a towel (also cheked on Pouncer briefly) and grabbed my keys. Mom was in the car heading to the hospital before she knew what had hit her. She kept swearing I was being ridiculous and over reacting.

The hopsital cleaned the wound, bandaged it, gave her a prescription for antibiotics, and a tetanus shot. They dsaid she didn't need intraveinous since she got there so fast - it was still bleeding when we were seen by the doctor. Good thing I live ony a few blocks from the hospital! Good thing it was 10 AM on a Sunday - nobody else was in the ER!