Know that reaction. Whe one of our outdoor kitties showed up with a bloody tail and a ripped up inside of his left thigh, after we washed up the spots, soaked the woulds in H2O2, smeared neosporin on them (vet sez liking it won't hurt them), the idiot cat wanted back outside. The same night.
We kept him inside until the wounds closed up. He didn't like that.
We suspicion that he actually managed to get himself tangled up in some of the old barbed wire that is all over the north forty and tore himself up in the struggle to free himself. Typically a bite will tend to infect and require something more powerful than topical neosporin be given internally or im, since bites are particularly septic. This wound didn't get obviously infected, healed up rather quickly, and kittybrat was back outdoors.
Now we are doing the 'observing' part with the blotchy one..
We don’t have barbed wire as an issue. Something tried to kill Jake, but he doesn’t care.