Territorial Male Cat?

About 5 days ago an absolute monster of a cat has shown up. He is about the size of my 19 pound cat at home, super long and super muscular, not fat. He is just large boned. He is two or three times larger than any of my other feral cats. He sort of watches over the area. He chases away the kitten when he comes which absolutely scares the kitten to death. He is fine around the three girls. So is he a territorial male since he leaves the femals cats alone and chases the kitten and other cats that try to get close?

He is very feral, I can't get near him, but he is an absolutely beautiful cat. Long, muscular, orange cat with white stripes.

It's possible that he is the alpha or is trying to establish himself as the alpha over this small but growing colony you've got. Not much you can do about it, I don't think. but if you can help the kitten, that would be good.

Trapping and fixing him might help some, too.

By the way, HamCat is beautiful!

Originally Posted by AddieBee

It's possible that he is the alpha or is trying to establish himself as the alpha over this small but growing colony you've got. Not much you can do about it, I don't think. but if you can help the kitten, that would be good.

Trapping and fixing him might help some, too.

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I agree, I think so too.

The other male cats, are they fixed or yet whole?

Usually a new male will show up when cats go into heat. In cold climates, this usually doesn't happen until around February-March. Do you live in a warm climate? For an alpha cat to move in, if he sticks around, yes, he is claiming his territory.

And unfortunately, a new alpha male can move into an area and may kill any young kittens left from previous alpha males. Getting him fixed ASAP is very important, as well as trying to get the kitten out of the environment until then.

I am trying to get them fixed. I will work on getting the kitten, but he is kind of hard to get. At this point I do not think any of the cats are fixed, but I hope to change that very soon. I live in Pennsylvania so it is really cold right now. Right now he is the only male cat that I know of, the rest are all females.