To my neighbour ('though I don't know which one yet) If you want a tom cat as your pet, you should get him castrated!!

[illgetyoubutler]

..Because it would save the outside of my house stinking of your manky cat's urine.
I mean for pity sakes, it is really getting to me.
Do me a favour, take your cat down to the vets and have its bollocks chopped off.
Your being a fucking lazy owner.

With regard to the spraying, I'm afraid that even neutered cats do it. Our can and another tom in the road both spray in our garden - always the same plants.

'Tis nature I'm afraid. Try putting cat deterant down in the garden. It may work.

blondie People will really pay £100 for a kitten of questionable parentage??? Wow. That has really shocked me. Kittens always used to be given away. Are there not loads on rescue places that need homes?

You obviously live next to my neighbour! So far their un-neutered tomcat has cost us £1350 (yes, you read that right) in vets bills because he beat the crap out of our young, NEUTERED tom and injured him so badly. 2 months after the fight, my cat is still back and forth to the vet being treated. My neighbour refuses to believe her cat beat my cat up, so we are left forking out for the vets bill ourself.

I've approached the neighbour repeatedly and told her to get the cat neutered and even offered to pay (even though she is actually able to afford it, I wanted to take the "I can't afford it" excuse out of the equation) but she doesn't believe in chopping its balls off and refuses to get the cat done. The cat is actually friendly enough. The next time it comes in through our cat flap and pisses everywhere or fights my cat, is the time it gets carted off to my vet and has its balls chopped off. She'll then get the cat back minus its balls.

I will feel no remorse or gulit about doing it. Cats should be neutered, end of.

I did this with a entire tom cat who used to come through our cat flap whilst we we at work. terrorise our two cats, piss everywhere, scoff food etc. Local cat wifey trapped him and he was 'done'. He stayed away for a month and then came back and settled down with us :)

Thenightsky: yes, unfortunatley people will pay over £100 sometimes depending on what the demand is people will pay nearer to £150. These are run of the mill moggy's. It is so very sad that people are still making big money out of this situation, another case of supply and demand i suspect.

Tiger, you have my deepest sympathy.
That is truely shocking.

Thnightsky, there are plenty of unwanted kittens and cats in rescue centres.
I think most centres if not all, have a policy where every animal they have found or had brought in, they would send to the vets to get 'done' before rehoming.
Very sensible.
Its beyond me why many people are so negligent in spaying and castrating their pets.

Cats Protection will provide you with a trap. Snip the collar off. Vet will snip the balls off. Deny all knowledge.
The spraying problem may not be sorted but the fighting instinct should die down a bit. Really it is cruel to have a cat neutered? A tom cat will wander into danger, fight and get wounds that may become infected and do not even get me started on unwanted kittens
Your neighbour is a fool!!!

My brother had a cat that needed doing. So, he picked up large black tomcat from the wall where it always sat, took to vet.... came home to find his large black tomcat sitting on the wall ....

I'm just saying, 'accidents' really can happen accidentally!