Last Saturday night I was bitten by a dog.
Go to Emergency at the district hospital 13km north of me.

PROCESS:

1) Show ID. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Give your height, weight, waist measurement. Use automatic blood pressure monitor. Get card for OPD (I assume Out Patient Department)
2) Go to Registration window. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Get a queue number for a triage nurse.
3) Wait for number.
4) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite".
5) Wait for a doctor examination room to call your number.
6) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite". More discussion. I took in the labels of the medications I take, told them I'm not allergic to anything, no underlying diseases and so forth. Doctor writes a prescription.
7) Take prescription to "Prescription" window. Put prescription in the tray. Wait for your name to be called. THIS IS HARD. The Emergency area of hospitals are horrendously loud from the tannoy announcing the various queue numbers through the general talking, and the frequent mumblings of a triage nurse saying something while holding the microphone halfway down her trachea. And, depending how difficult your name is for a Thai to say, you can easily miss it. My name is easy. But I'm hearing impaired so, there's that...
8) Take prescriptions (in my case tetanus and rabies) to "Treatment & Dressing Room". Put prescription in tray outside door. Wait.
9) Have wound dressed, get half the rabies shot in one arm, half in the other. Yes, you read that right. And the tetanus in your non-dominant. They'll then give a sheet of paper with the schedule of subsequent injections. One three days hence, one seven days hence, one ten days, and one I think two weeks beyond that.

10) Got to "Payments" window. This is where I would have destroyed the BP machine from five hours ago. How much is this going to cost me? I'd read the stories and was fair soiling myself. Anyway...Get the bill.

HOW MUCH

1) To see the doctor: ฿230
2) For medications : ฿495
Total, 725 Baht.
Plus, I assume, I'll pay 495 baht minus the cost of today's tetanus dose for each of the subsequent rabies injections.

And, hopefully, I'll not have to be there for five and a half hours. To be fair, an hour of that was when they all went to lunch between 1200 and 1300.

This was in a public district hospital. The clinics,, the "anamai", and the little offices run by off-duty paramedics do not carry the vaccine. Get bitten? Go straight to your nearest actual hospital. Mine is small; only 158 beds.

Seems a bit cheap for rabies, usually they inject the wound as well as the arm, i paid a few thousand a few years ago, some people pay 20k at private hospital i heard

Thats pretty cheap, glad you're ok
I got 13 shots when I was 11, I got bitten by a bat.

22 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Seems a bit cheap for rabies, usually they inject the wound as well as the arm, i paid a few thousand a few years ago, some people pay 20k at private hospital i heard

I can tell you, I was really concerned. I'm two weeks from my next cash injection (excuse the pun) and only had about 8k on me.
Then again, with another four doses to go at ~400 each, the price gets up to around 2k for the whole lot.

Overall happy with the cost. So far. For all I know the one I need in May is five kay.

I was also told to keep an eye on the dog for the next week to ten days. To see if it gets sick or dies.

Great!
Sounds like the punchline of Chuck Norris's own joke about him being bitten by a cobra.

20 minutes ago, Slowhand225 said:

Thats pretty cheap, glad you're ok
I got 13 shots when I was 11, I got bitten by a bat.

Thanks.
THIRTEEN? F N L
I suppose that depends on how long ago that was. AND, by accounts I have read, bats are particularly nasty as they are quite salivary. I had the bonus of the dog being asleep. If it had been eating with its saliva going full-on, I may be in more trouble.

I was told when I got back to my rental that I got charged the same as "the woman at the market that went there last month" by my landlady.

I assume I'm going to be okay. I mean I got to the wound pretty quickly and the ankle gash was really getting some volume out. The puncture in the sole of my heel I was more concerned about as it wasn't bleeding as much, got dirty and was hard to clean. And I hadn't had a tetanus booster since about 2008. But I got creative with a manicure set and some self-surgery to get all the crud out and pumped it full of ethanol followed by Betadine.

17 minutes ago, The Oracle said:

Thanks.
THIRTEEN? F N L
I suppose that depends on how long ago that was. AND, by accounts I have read, bats are particularly nasty as they are quite salivary. I had the bonus of the dog being asleep. If it had been eating with its saliva going full-on, I may be in more trouble.

I was told when I got back to my rental that I got charged the same as "the woman at the market that went there last month" by my landlady.

I assume I'm going to be okay. I mean I got to the wound pretty quickly and the ankle gash was really getting some volume out. The puncture in the sole of my heel I was more concerned about as it wasn't bleeding as much, got dirty and was hard to clean. And I hadn't had a tetanus booster since about 2008. But I got creative with a manicure set and some self-surgery to get all the crud out and pumped it full of ethanol followed by Betadine.

Given the eventual fuller details of the dog biting experience it is highly unlikely the dog was at its infection level of rabies if it had rabies at all. ( Sleeping and not dementedly salivating)

The treatment program seems to vary a bit from area to area hospitals but what you have been provided is no less than would be at some major private outfit but at a fraction of the cost !

The rabies vaccine is notoriously expensive because it has a very short and sensitive shelf life.

3 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

Given the eventual fuller details of the dog biting experience it is highly unlikely the dog was at its infection level of rabies if it had rabies at all. ( Sleeping and not dementedly salivating)

The treatment program seems to vary a bit from area to area hospitals but what you have been provided is no less than would be at some major private outfit but at a fraction of the cost !

The rabies vaccine is notoriously expensive because it has a very short and sensitive shelf life.

I think that's part of the issue. I live in the sticks and me being an actual patient at the registration point was the only sticking point for them.
Apart from that, it all went smoothly.
My reason to post this was to show AN subscribers can get treatment at hospitals without being fleeced; based on my own experience differing quite widely from stories I'd read about. Well, at least as an outpatient. Obviously, I don't want to be an Inpatient here or anywhere else.

I did not know about the shelf life of the vaccine but, just on that single point, it may be that so many people here get bitten by rats, cats, dogs, bats [insert misc mammal here] because it is a very rural area that the access to, and use of, such prophylactic medicines is cheaper due to volume prescribed.

On that, I have no idea.

But if my total treatment - whether I was infected or not - costs two to three thousand baht, it's far better monetarily than the horror stories I have read.

2 hours ago, The Oracle said:

Last Saturday night I was bitten by a dog.
Go to Emergency at the district hospital 13km north of me.

PROCESS:

1) Show ID. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Give your height, weight, waist measurement. Use automatic blood pressure monitor. Get card for OPD (I assume Out Patient Department)
2) Go to Registration window. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Get a queue number for a triage nurse.
3) Wait for number.
4) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite".
5) Wait for a doctor examination room to call your number.
6) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite". More discussion. I took in the labels of the medications I take, told them I'm not allergic to anything, no underlying diseases and so forth. Doctor writes a prescription.
7) Take prescription to "Prescription" window. Put prescription in the tray. Wait for your name to be called. THIS IS HARD. The Emergency area of hospitals are horrendously loud from the tannoy announcing the various queue numbers through the general talking, and the frequent mumblings of a triage nurse saying something while holding the microphone halfway down her trachea. And, depending how difficult your name is for a Thai to say, you can easily miss it. My name is easy. But I'm hearing impaired so, there's that...
8) Take prescriptions (in my case tetanus and rabies) to "Treatment & Dressing Room". Put prescription in tray outside door. Wait.
9) Have wound dressed, get half the rabies shot in one arm, half in the other. Yes, you read that right. And the tetanus in your non-dominant. They'll then give a sheet of paper with the schedule of subsequent injections. One three days hence, one seven days hence, one ten days, and one I think two weeks beyond that.

10) Got to "Payments" window. This is where I would have destroyed the BP machine from five hours ago. How much is this going to cost me? I'd read the stories and was fair soiling myself. Anyway...Get the bill.

HOW MUCH

1) To see the doctor: ฿230
2) For medications : ฿495
Total, 725 Baht.
Plus, I assume, I'll pay 495 baht minus the cost of today's tetanus dose for each of the subsequent rabies injections.

And, hopefully, I'll not have to be there for five and a half hours. To be fair, an hour of that was when they all went to lunch between 1200 and 1300.

This was in a public district hospital. The clinics,, the "anamai", and the little offices run by off-duty paramedics do not carry the vaccine. Get bitten? Go straight to your nearest actual hospital. Mine is small; only 158 beds.

...........and where is your problem? Your choice was a Government Hospital. You would have been amazed how fast and professional it woull be in a Private Hospital.

1 hour ago, The Oracle said:

I can tell you, I was really concerned. I'm two weeks from my next cash injection (excuse the pun) and only had about 8k on me.
Then again, with another four doses to go at ~400 each, the price gets up to around 2k for the whole lot.

Overall happy with the cost. So far. For all I know the one I need in May is five kay.

I was also told to keep an eye on the dog for the next week to ten days. To see if it gets sick or dies.

Great!
Sounds like the punchline of Chuck Norris's own joke about him being bitten by a cobra.

If you find yourself getting water phobic, you know can't drink water, write a will quickly

Happened a couple of months ago to me. I was walking back to my girlfriend's house with ice from a shop about 100 meters away. The dog that calls her house home followed me. On the way back, I was in between the dog and another dog that came from the shop. They both lunged at each other and our dog bit me on the leg by accident. Taking no chances, I went to the local public hospital. Same course of treatment. Total was almost 2000 Baht. Had to return for a couple of shots a week later. Had a few puncture wounds, two deeper than the others. Watched dog for a week, was fine anyway. If this was America, it would have cost an average of $4000 USD. First time a dog broke the skin out of three bites.

13 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

If you find yourself getting water phobic, you know can't drink water, write a will quickly

If get that symptom, I'll be in the car, emptying my bank account, and making some long distance phone calls.
LOL

Reading stories as above is one reason I will NOT step over a dog blocking the door to a 7-11. If anyone Thai or farang takes issue in Thai or English I respond:

I'm not going to a hospital because of a dog.

On 4/20/2026 at 10:44 AM, The Oracle said:

Last Saturday night I was bitten by a dog.
Go to Emergency at the district hospital 13km north of me.

PROCESS:

1) Show ID. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Give your height, weight, waist measurement. Use automatic blood pressure monitor. Get card for OPD (I assume Out Patient Department)
2) Go to Registration window. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Get a queue number for a triage nurse.
3) Wait for number.
4) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite".
5) Wait for a doctor examination room to call your number.
6) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite". More discussion. I took in the labels of the medications I take, told them I'm not allergic to anything, no underlying diseases and so forth. Doctor writes a prescription.
7) Take prescription to "Prescription" window. Put prescription in the tray. Wait for your name to be called. THIS IS HARD. The Emergency area of hospitals are horrendously loud from the tannoy announcing the various queue numbers through the general talking, and the frequent mumblings of a triage nurse saying something while holding the microphone halfway down her trachea. And, depending how difficult your name is for a Thai to say, you can easily miss it. My name is easy. But I'm hearing impaired so, there's that...
8) Take prescriptions (in my case tetanus and rabies) to "Treatment & Dressing Room". Put prescription in tray outside door. Wait.
9) Have wound dressed, get half the rabies shot in one arm, half in the other. Yes, you read that right. And the tetanus in your non-dominant. They'll then give a sheet of paper with the schedule of subsequent injections. One three days hence, one seven days hence, one ten days, and one I think two weeks beyond that.

10) Got to "Payments" window. This is where I would have destroyed the BP machine from five hours ago. How much is this going to cost me? I'd read the stories and was fair soiling myself. Anyway...Get the bill.

Got nipped by an excited dog when riding slowly on motorcyle tour. Only just broke skin. Went to hospital in Thoen, Lampang. Procedure, as per OP above, however was all done in less than 1 hour. Very efficient. They (over) prescribed, painkillers and antibiotics to go with the rabies (TRCS Speeda) and tetanus shots. A further 4 rabies shots and a 2nd tetanus were needed over the next month. As we were travelling, these were all done in different places. Just showed each reception the vaccine book and it was easy.

Locations, total costs and total time in and out of hospital;

Thoen Lampang - 1 hour - 1,400 Baht (meds, rabies, tetanus)

St. Louis Bangkok - 15 minutes - 1,200 Baht (rabies)

Battambang - 10 minutes - $30 (rabies)

Chantaburi - 90 minutes - 595 Baht (rabies)

St. Louis Bangkok - 10 minutes - 1,200 Baht (rabies)

Memorial Pattaya - 45 minutes - 1,300 Baht (this was second tetanus shot)

Very impressed with how seriously rabies is treated in Thailand and Cambodia. Vaccines readily available at reasonable costs.

.

1 hour ago, soi3eddie said:

Got nipped by an excited dog when riding slowly on motorcyle tour. Only just broke skin. Went to hospital in Thoen, Lampang. Procedure, as per OP above, however was all done in less than 1 hour. Very efficient. They (over) prescribed, painkillers and antibiotics to go with the rabies (TRCS Speeda) and tetanus shots. A further 4 rabies shots and a 2nd tetanus were needed over the next month. As we were travelling, these were all done in different places. Just showed each reception the vaccine book and it was easy.

Locations, total costs and total time in and out of hospital;

Thoen Lampang - 1 hour - 1,400 Baht (meds, rabies, tetanus)

St. Louis Bangkok - 15 minutes - 1,200 Baht (rabies)

Battambang - 10 minutes - $30 (rabies)

Chantaburi - 90 minutes - 595 Baht (rabies)

St. Louis Bangkok - 10 minutes - 1,200 Baht (rabies)

Memorial Pattaya - 45 minutes - 1,300 Baht (this was second tetanus shot)

Very impressed with how seriously rabies is treated in Thailand and Cambodia. Vaccines readily available at reasonable costs.

An excellent precis of how medical treatment is valued here in Thailand and across its neighbouring countries.
Thank you for a comparative example of treatments and costs, especially considering your travel across provinces (and differing health service providers) for the ongoing treatment; excellent!
Sure, the processes and costs varied, but you and I provided examples of first-person experiences.

Subscribers should read and appreciate posts of real-life experiences such as ours, and avoid the interminable ad hominem posts that will invariably appear between members that go completely off-script.

One posted that I posted some sort of "a problem" and that a "private hospital's" , "speed and professionalism" would "surprise" me. Where that came from, I have no idea. I never mentioned private hospitals; all I did - I thought - was to assure people on this forum that certain health services such as a course of treatment for rabies isn't account-depleting.
Sure, I waited five hours in a a hospital for treatment but it's not as if I had anything else to do...

On 4/20/2026 at 4:56 PM, scubascuba3 said:

i paid a few thousand a few years ago,

So did I for the first shot until I discovered by accident that most local clinics with give a 495-ish jab.

8 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

So did I for the first shot until I discovered by accident that most local clinics with give a 495-ish jab.

Yes, Pattaya City Hospital charged me 3k for the two initial injections, i thought rip off and i went to Bang Lamung for follow up injections 250 baht each.

but i know two people who went to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and it was 20,000 baht

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes, Pattaya City Hospital charged me 3k for the two initial injections, i thought rip off and i went to Bang Lamung for follow up injections 250 baht each.

but i know two people who went to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and it was 20,000 baht

That is what I was worried about.

I'm off for my second injection in an hour or so, the single cost of the rabies dose will be interesting.

I have my third rabies dose on Monday (+seven days), and the final dose on 20 May (+30 days).
[My second and third tetanus doses are at +30 days and +180 days respectively.]

Okay second rabies vaccine injection done.
In to Outpatients at 10:19
Out the door at 10:26.
Cost: ฿400

PROCESS:
1) Go to woman at desk just inside the Outpatients Department, show ID and vaccine schedule. Get some sort of card thing.
2) Go to Registration window. Show ID, schedule, and the card thing. Get ID, schedule, numbered docket and invoice.

3) Wait outside Dressing & Treatment room. No queue. I'm next in.
4) Stab in left arm.
5) Stab in right arm.
6) Got to Payment window, show invoice (which has now been signed by the treating nurse) and pay.
7) Leave.

Seven minutes. It took me longer to walk from my car.

I'm making the assumption the process for my third (27 04) and final (20 05) rabies injection and subsequent tetanus injections will be the same.

Stay healthy all.

PS: for those wondering, unlike the cobra that bit Chuck Norris and, after three excruciating days, died; the dog that bit me is fine. It hasn't gone into Cujo Mode or anything.

I begged the Bangkok district office to get rid of our aggressive soi dogs about six months ago, but they refused. Last week they killed our cat, so I asked again. All they'll do is vaccinate them for rabies. No euthanasia until they bite a human.

It's very frustrating because the expensive housing developments around us don't have to live with wild dog packs on their streets. They push them out to where we are, and no one is allowed to do anything.

20 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes, Pattaya City Hospital charged me 3k for the two initial injections, i thought rip off and i went to Bang Lamung for follow up injections 250 baht each.

but i know two people who went to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and it was 20,000 baht

20000 is for rabies immunoglobulin, not just the rabies vaccine.

In many cases, immunoglobulin should be given, but because its very expensive (20000 is a good price) it is hardly ever given in government hospitals.

8 hours ago, Hish said:

20000 is for rabies immunoglobulin, not just the rabies vaccine.

In many cases, immunoglobulin should be given, but because its very expensive (20000 is a good price) it is hardly ever given in government hospitals.

Maybe that is what I had been misinterpreting, price-wise.

I should have had it, although it wasn't even brought up. As you say, possibly because I was at a government hospital. The doc didn't suggest I go to the private hospital for it, either. And, anyway, as I posted, I was only packing about 8k.

We must get dozens and dozens of dog bites up here a year, I'd have heard about someone dying of rabies. Or even a dog dying of it.

Thanks for the information.

14 hours ago, davb said:

I begged the Bangkok district office to get rid of our aggressive soi dogs about six months ago, but they refused. Last week they killed our cat, so I asked again. All they'll do is vaccinate them for rabies. No euthanasia until they bite a human.

It's very frustrating because the expensive housing developments around us don't have to live with wild dog packs on their streets. They push them out to where we are, and no one is allowed to do anything.

That sucks.

A bloke used to come around every year or so to see if we needed any vaccines for nw dogs. He's thick as a brick, though. He would just forcefully grabs a dog and then get surprised when it - or another dog protecting its pack member - tries to take a chunk out of him. All the dogs from that era a no longer with us. However, he still comes around but now asks us how many dogs we have and leaves us to give the injection.

I hope your issue is resolved before another pet, or someone's kid gets bitten.

On 4/20/2026 at 4:44 PM, The Oracle said:

Last Saturday night I was bitten by a dog.
Go to Emergency at the district hospital 13km north of me.

PROCESS:

1) Show ID. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Give your height, weight, waist measurement. Use automatic blood pressure monitor. Get card for OPD (I assume Out Patient Department)
2) Go to Registration window. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Get a queue number for a triage nurse.
3) Wait for number.
4) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite".
5) Wait for a doctor examination room to call your number.
6) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite". More discussion. I took in the labels of the medications I take, told them I'm not allergic to anything, no underlying diseases and so forth. Doctor writes a prescription.
7) Take prescription to "Prescription" window. Put prescription in the tray. Wait for your name to be called. THIS IS HARD. The Emergency area of hospitals are horrendously loud from the tannoy announcing the various queue numbers through the general talking, and the frequent mumblings of a triage nurse saying something while holding the microphone halfway down her trachea. And, depending how difficult your name is for a Thai to say, you can easily miss it. My name is easy. But I'm hearing impaired so, there's that...
8) Take prescriptions (in my case tetanus and rabies) to "Treatment & Dressing Room". Put prescription in tray outside door. Wait.
9) Have wound dressed, get half the rabies shot in one arm, half in the other. Yes, you read that right. And the tetanus in your non-dominant. They'll then give a sheet of paper with the schedule of subsequent injections. One three days hence, one seven days hence, one ten days, and one I think two weeks beyond that.

10) Got to "Payments" window. This is where I would have destroyed the BP machine from five hours ago. How much is this going to cost me? I'd read the stories and was fair soiling myself. Anyway...Get the bill.

HOW MUCH

1) To see the doctor: ฿230
2) For medications : ฿495
Total, 725 Baht.
Plus, I assume, I'll pay 495 baht minus the cost of today's tetanus dose for each of the subsequent rabies injections.

And, hopefully, I'll not have to be there for five and a half hours. To be fair, an hour of that was when they all went to lunch between 1200 and 1300.

This was in a public district hospital. The clinics,, the "anamai", and the little offices run by off-duty paramedics do not carry the vaccine. Get bitten? Go straight to your nearest actual hospital. Mine is small; only 158 beds.

On 4/20/2026 at 4:44 PM, The Oracle said:

Last Saturday night I was bitten by a dog.
Go to Emergency at the district hospital 13km north of me.

PROCESS:

1) Show ID. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Give your height, weight, waist measurement. Use automatic blood pressure monitor. Get card for OPD (I assume Out Patient Department)
2) Go to Registration window. Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite" Get a queue number for a triage nurse.
3) Wait for number.
4) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite".
5) Wait for a doctor examination room to call your number.
6) Tell them what happened. "Dog Bite". More discussion. I took in the labels of the medications I take, told them I'm not allergic to anything, no underlying diseases and so forth. Doctor writes a prescription.
7) Take prescription to "Prescription" window. Put prescription in the tray. Wait for your name to be called. THIS IS HARD. The Emergency area of hospitals are horrendously loud from the tannoy announcing the various queue numbers through the general talking, and the frequent mumblings of a triage nurse saying something while holding the microphone halfway down her trachea. And, depending how difficult your name is for a Thai to say, you can easily miss it. My name is easy. But I'm hearing impaired so, there's that...
8) Take prescriptions (in my case tetanus and rabies) to "Treatment & Dressing Room". Put prescription in tray outside door. Wait.
9) Have wound dressed, get half the rabies shot in one arm, half in the other. Yes, you read that right. And the tetanus in your non-dominant. They'll then give a sheet of paper with the schedule of subsequent injections. One three days hence, one seven days hence, one ten days, and one I think two weeks beyond that.

10) Got to "Payments" window. This is where I would have destroyed the BP machine from five hours ago. How much is this going to cost me? I'd read the stories and was fair soiling myself. Anyway...Get the bill.

HOW MUCH

1) To see the doctor: ฿230
2) For medications : ฿495
Total, 725 Baht.
Plus, I assume, I'll pay 495 baht minus the cost of today's tetanus dose for each of the subsequent rabies injections.

And, hopefully, I'll not have to be there for five and a half hours. To be fair, an hour of that was when they all went to lunch between 1200 and 1300.

This was in a public district hospital. The clinics,, the "anamai", and the little offices run by off-duty paramedics do not carry the vaccine. Get bitten? Go straight to your nearest actual hospital. Mine is small; only 158 beds.

On 4/20/2026 at 4:56 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Seems a bit cheap for rabies, usually they inject the wound as well as the arm, i paid a few thousand a few years ago, some people pay 20k at private hospital i heard

That's about right. I got nipped by a dog in Cha Am and went to a local government hospital. That's about what it cost.
Had follow up shots at our Amphur hospital when I got back home. Equality as inexpensive.

Don't go to expensive "private" hospitals. There is no reason to spend ฿20K or even "a few thousand" for rabies shots.

In Thailand it's the immunoglobulin shot, usually given as part of the first course of treatment, that's expensive. The rabies shots are cheap(er).

Happened to wife a couple of years back. At Bumrungrad each of the 5 rabies shots was around 2000. The initial shot also included immunoglobulin, which was around 20000.

On 4/20/2026 at 5:23 PM, The Oracle said:

I can tell you, I was really concerned. I'm two weeks from my next cash injection (excuse the pun) and only had about 8k on me.
Then again, with another four doses to go at ~400 each, the price gets up to around 2k for the whole lot.

Overall happy with the cost. So far. For all I know the one I need in May is five kay.

I was also told to keep an eye on the dog for the next week to ten days. To see if it gets sick or dies.

Great!
Sounds like the punchline of Chuck Norris's own joke about him being bitten by a cobra.

If you keep an eye on the dog for 10 days, and if it doesn't go mad, then you don't need the shots.

1 hour ago, crouchpeter said:

If you keep an eye on the dog for 10 days, and if it doesn't go mad, then you don't need the shots.

And if the dog goes mad ....
Time is of the essence.
Delays in starting rabies vaccine increase risk, especially in severe bites. Lack of the immediate protection of HRIG or ERIG can exacerbate that risk, as the vaccine alone already takes about 7–14 days to elicit a strong protective immune response.

Edited May 12May 12 by LosLobo

2 hours ago, crouchpeter said:

If you keep an eye on the dog for 10 days, and if it doesn't go mad, then you don't need the shots.

Not sure if you're being serious but if so, that's really bad advice. Rabies is a disease that is incurable once it takes hold and you're showing symptoms.

And while symptoms typically appear within 3 to 12 weeks, the incubation period can range from one week to over a year.

Waiting 10 days for a disease that will definitely kill you once you start to show symptoms and for which there have been cases where symptoms appeared after just a week, does not strike me as a wise course of action.

8 hours ago, crouchpeter said:

If you keep an eye on the dog for 10 days, and if it doesn't go mad, then you don't need the shots.

This is what I did when gf got bitten by a monkey.

The next vaccine was several days away, anyway.

And monkeys in Thailand usually don't carry rabies.

AND: this was 35 years ago. The vaccines today are much better tolerated.

18 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Not sure if you're being serious but if so, that's really bad advice. Rabies is a disease that is incurable once it takes hold and you're showing symptoms.

And while symptoms typically appear within 3 to 12 weeks, the incubation period can range from one week to over a year.

Waiting 10 days for a disease that will definitely kill you once you start to show symptoms and for which there have been cases where symptoms appeared after just a week, does not strike me as a wise course of action.