Hi, I live in MA. and I was driving and I saw a cat in the middle of the road, as I passed the area the cat backed up (scared of my car) and I noticed a garder snake in the middle of the road trying to make its way to the grass on the other side. I saw in my rear view mirror soon as I pulled away, the cat went back to the snake and was trying to scratch / bite it. I turned my car around and drove by again but could not stop because the snake was on the other side of the road, so I passed it and then made a 3 point turn and by that time the snake had crossed the road fully, but was still getting hammered by the cat. So as I pulled up this time I got out of the car and grabbed the snake and brought it back to work with me, where he is right now.

When I picked him up he was very still, I thought I was too late, as he did not even try to escape me picking him up on the side of the road. But when I originally picked him up and I thought I saw some blood near the lower part of his tail, but I did not have time to look at the wounds in detail, I had to keep driving. So I held him till I got back to work. Now I don’t see any blood at all on him, and he is very active. When I opened the container to take a pic he slid right out and tried to slide off the desk but I caught him in time. But when I look close I can see what appears to be a small stab wound in his scales, by the tail area (I would guess aprox. 2 inches from the tip of the tail). When he slithers around an object and you look at the scales from an angle, you can see the wound but is showing but not bleeding.

So it looks like I may have rescued him just in time before he got a more serious wound, but I hope the wound he does have is not to serious. So my question is what should I do now? He appears to be fine, but he clearly went through a bit of trauma with that cat. Should I keep him for a few days just to make sure the wound heals a bit? Should I apply any ointment to the wound, such as Neosporin?

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