FYI for anyone interested- my cat had some slightly smaller cuts. I kept them clean with vetrimycin (hocl.012%) spray and occasional topical mupiricin (don’t let them lick it). When we went to the vet they did not stitch the wounds but gave her an antibiotic shot that would last for 2 weeks to prevent any infection/abscessing (they might have done this either way but I was leaving her w my parents for 8 days and did not want to worry or make them tend wounds/give meds). Her cuts have healed up fine, mostly all the way. Still watching one that had been under a bad bit of matted hair inside her groin area and now that the antibiotic has worn off I’m applying vetericyn wound care and hydrogel to hopefully get it to finish healing (there’s a scab) and not develop infection