Poor Oliver

I had not seen Oliver for a few days, then about a week ago he turned up looking very sorry for himself. He was all hunched up and miserable on the window ledge. When I went to feed him I saw that he had a great big wound on one side of his face. I rang my friend Carmen and she came over to look at him.We really have no idea what could have caused the damage, the wound seems too big to have been caused by another cat. We cleaned his face and put Betadine on him, poor boy did cry. Carmen got me a course of antibiotics and six days later he is back to normal, apart from his face, although that looks to be healing well. I am feeding him on pouches of soft food which he has no problem eating. Carmen and I decided not to consult his owner our Spanish neighbour as we know from past experience she will not take him to the vet. Anyway I don't think the vet would do any more than we are doing already. I expect my neighbour does know he has been injured because now he is feeling better he isn't spending all his time on our terrace as he did for the first few days. I don't think they feed him as he has been helping himself to our cat food for years. Carmen once told the neighbour that he came in and ate our food and her reply was that he was a free spirit. Suits me, he is a beautiful cat and feeding one more makes no difference. I personally would not want my own cats to eat elsewhere but they don't need to they are well fed here.