Small EXP gain for losing battles

Support! Losing a battle when the enemy was 1 bite away from being defeated is a pain AND then having to use all that healing salve is horrible

Massive support. I actually find it funny folks would say it wouldnt be realistic to gain from a lost battle. But, uh? You do learn something each time you fail at something, and that's a gain. You dont learn only by succeeding, you learn by messing up. So learning a little each time you lose a battle makes perfect sense to me. 

Adding support to this. It's just common sense to learn something from your life experiences even if you don't achieve what you set out to do, and it would work as a game mechanic because it can already be a struggle for new users to make any sort of progress levelling as they'll lack healing items and have low-stat wolves to start with.