Feral Tomcat Singing at Cat

[Anonymous]

I have a fixed female indoor only cat, but this feral Tomcat keeps coming by my house and yowling at her including at night (I have a screened porch that she had been allowed on but I've kept her off it since he showed up). I've managed to spray him with the hose (he does tend to run off when we go out) but he keeps coming back. I've never seen any other feral cats around, just this one so I don't know that a TNR group would be interested.

Any advice on getting him to leave her alone? Him singing in the middle of the night is getting old.

[Anonymous]

There may be other female feral cats near your home you’re not aware of. A TNR group would come out to just pick the 1 male up.

[Anonymous]

Unless your cat's surgery was botched (can that happen?), I think other cats are in the vicinity, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless your cat's surgery was botched (can that happen?), I think other cats are in the vicinity, OP.

Must be, she's 5 so I would have noticed by now. I've lived in my house for about 5 years and only ever noticed my neighbor's indoor/outdoor cats before (they're fixed and didn't harass my cat). But it's possible a colony has moved in somewhere.

I've googled Fairfax TNR programs but haven't found anywhere to report a feral tom.

[Anonymous]

You can TNR yourself if you want to do a good thing. Traps are not hard to come by, then get him snipped. If you are a cat owner already do something positive for the species rather than just complain and make it somebody else's problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can TNR yourself if you want to do a good thing. Traps are not hard to come by, then get him snipped. If you are a cat owner already do something positive for the species rather than just complain and make it somebody else's problem.

This is probably the real solution. You may be able to find a clinic that will do ferals at a discount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a fixed female indoor only cat, but this feral Tomcat keeps coming by my house and yowling at her including at night (I have a screened porch that she had been allowed on but I've kept her off it since he showed up). I've managed to spray him with the hose (he does tend to run off when we go out) but he keeps coming back. I've never seen any other feral cats around, just this one so I don't know that a TNR group would be interested.

Any advice on getting him to leave her alone? Him singing in the middle of the night is getting old.

That happened to my female cat, and the feral cat gave her fleas through the screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can TNR yourself if you want to do a good thing. Traps are not hard to come by, then get him snipped. If you are a cat owner already do something positive for the species rather than just complain and make it somebody else's problem.

This is probably the real solution. You may be able to find a clinic that will do ferals at a discount.

TNR is not a solution. Many, many studies prove it doesn't work. Meanwhile, the still-feral cats are still spreading feline diseases, killing the native wildlife, pooping in the neighbors' yards (toxicoplasmosis, anyone?), and bugging the neighbors' cats like OP is experiencing. If the snipped cat no longer howls, it will still be on OP's porch, looking into OP's window to basically torment her indoor cat (ask me how I know).

Get a trap and turn him into a no-kill shelter. We adopted an almost-feral cat (seriously, our vet put "ALMOST FERAL" in huge letters on the cat's intake form ), and someone else will, too.