Help! My kitty's tail!

[Betty]

Oliver kitty (aka: kit-cat-magoo) seems to be doing fine. Not acting any different and his tail looks - well I can't see how it looks because the hair has clumped and "hardened" around it. He's made a few minor attempts licking at it.

I'm thinking I should leave it as is. Eventually the clumped hair will break up, he'll clean it, whatever. Unless those smart cat people here think it needs to be washed and unclumped. Right now his tail looks like it has an inner fur core at the end.

I was worried about using neosporin knowing that he'd lick it off.