We’ve got a 4 yr old female tabby, she is neutered. Over the past week or so, a “new cat on the block” has appeared – I’m assuming this cat is male due to his size, but I’m not sure. This cat seems to have taken a great interest to our garden and our cat. He sits outside our house wailing, we’re always seeing him spraying in the garden, and now he’s started climbing the steps leading up to our back door, spraying on them, rubbing his bum against the back door, and spraying on the (microchip) cat flap. Thank heavens he can’t get in!
He looks far too well fed and groomed to be a stray. So I can’t understand what’s going on – could he be un-neutered, and is pursuing our cat so that he can mate with her? Or as she’s neutered, I assume she won’t give out any mating pheromones (or whatever the term is) in which case surely no males would be interested ?
Or is he just trying to be extremely territorial? Our cat is most put out by all this, it hasn’t stopped her going out and about, thankfully, but she spends ages peering out of the cat flap before she commits herself to going out. And when she comes back in, she hurtles through the flap like the devil’s after her.
We only got our microchip cat flap in autumn of last year, and I’m so pleased with it. I’ve watched countless cats trying (unsuccessfully) to get in. I often wonder if our utility room was the local feline cafeteria, as we now get through a lot less cat food. And interestingly, even though they can’t get in, there’s quite often a cat(s) hanging around our back door.