I had a wild largemouth bass who got similar with njuries from a osprey,(in a pond I fished in),he was eating and everything afterwards till one morning I found him floating 2weeks after the attack,secondary infection must of got him(sad considering I fed him for five years,since he was 3 inches and one of the only bass who would eat pellets)
Yeah that's what I'm expecting to happen tbh Cuz this is the worst injury any of my fish have sustained I had a pacu jump threw my lids and that was what took the lid out and that one died due to both my wife and I being at work when it happened, but like I mentioned I have had this happen before with one of my Matto grosso Azuls and I saved it so I hoping if I can use my knowledge from that one to help this one I might have a fighting chance but I need to get it to eat but I think the cat might have punctured part of its gills on the left side here's my Azuls incident I'll have to go grab some more recent pics Cuz it healed up perfectly

