Husband Bit At Showing

My husband and I were looking at a house to purchase. The sellers were there for the showing and asked us if we wanted to see their “tiger.” We didn’t respond we were a little confused. There cat came walking up and owner explained the cat is half Bob cat. The seller told my husband the cat was friendly. My husband bent down to pet the cat and it attacked him, biting his one hand. My husband could not get the cat off, and was asking the owner for help. I had my son in my arms and didn’t know what to do. While trying to pry the cats mouth open with his other hand, the cat latched onto my husbands other hand. Finally he was able to get the cat to let go and was dripping blood all over the sellers floor. The sellers wife came downstairs and wanted to help my husband bandage up his hands. After that, my husband left the house to go to the car. I said I was going to check on him. He was not feeling well and wanted to leave, so I told the sellers we were leaving and maybe we’d reschedule to see the house. Once we left my husband said he was not feeling good and wanted to go to the Urgent Care to get it cleaned out to avoid infection. (The cat had latched on and bitten really deep and was hanging in the air off of my husbands hands).

Urgent care advised us they could not see him unless we could provide proof that the cat was up to date on all its vaccines (if it was not, we needed to go to the ER and he would need the rabies shot). They also advised us we should see the records ourselves and not take their word for it.

I called the listing agent asking her to get us the records asap so we could be seen at urgent care. But after waiting for a little, decided we should just go to the ER because we didn’t know how long it would take to get those records from the seller and Urgent Care would not even clean it out for him without the records.

ER was not as concerned about the potential of rabies because it was a house pet, even though it’s half Bob cat. They treated my husbands hand and gave him IV antibiotics and oral antibiotics to take home. The listing agent texted saying “kitty is all up to date on its vaccines.”

The following days, his hands swelled up pretty bad and he was in a lot of pain but swelling had since gone down and his hands are healing up. The only concern is he was pain and immobility making a fist on one hand and he works with his hands so thinking we might see a hand specialist to make sure there is no damage to nerve or ligaments or whatever.

I decided to follow up with the listing agent and ask again for the records, I figured the chance is slim to none my husband would get rabies from the cat but since their is no cure and the result would be death, figured it was worth double checking. The sellers have essentially avoided providing the records giving the listing agent the run around. This is really bothering me and making me think they lied and the cat is not up to date on it’s vaccines.

I am wondering how I should proceed with the situation. Do I have any legal recourse to force them to produce the records (but by that time, he will be out of the window where the vaccine is effective anyway).

After finding out he was in the ER I would have expected them to reach out and offer to pay our bill or at least make sure he is okay, and I would certainly expect they would produce the records we are asking for asap. I initially did not want to pursue anything but because of how they are handling the situation, I am feeling like I should.