Violent Tom intruder

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There has been one tomcat running around recently, I have had to keep my cats indoors.

Bully entered today to warehouse and I fond there was one feral that I thought I had lost forever and tom started a fight with her on first sight, I spooked them apart and now I have both of them trapped in warehouse in different sections without access to other ones.

I'm planning to get tom into humane trap and take him to lost and found cats office, maybe that takes care of bully.

I was surprised to see that one feral that decided to runaway about year ago and I thought there is no way to get her tamed, but back she was now.

Just need to trap her too and check if she is injured from tom cat's attack, there was quite a bit of torn fur on floor.

Trying to brake off cat fight, something I really don't look forward to do again.

One tomcat was hit by a car earlier and that perhaps caused a shift in territories.
 

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Cat fights are the worst.  I just hate when I hear the sounds of cats fighting.  Hopefully, you can trap the tom and take him to be neutered and then he will have a place to live.  As for the feral, hopefully she is ok and just a bit shaken up.  Do you know if she is spayed?  The tom could have been trying to mate with her.

Good luck with the trappings!
 
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Cat fights are the worst.  I just hate when I hear the sounds of cats fighting.  Hopefully, you can trap the tom and take him to be neutered and then he will have a place to live.  As for the feral, hopefully she is ok and just a bit shaken up.  Do you know if she is spayed?  The tom could have been trying to mate with her.

Good luck with the trappings!
She is spayed, I did that some years ago.

I visited the tom and he is not happy with his limited freedom, he was attempting to go trough window glass and climb the wall, then he was turning his attention towards me with lot of hissing + tiny amount of growling and I had stupid enough to end up in the position where tom was between me and door out from that tiny room of warehouse, he gauging me as potential landing zone for furious attack.

He did calm down as I did not pay much attention to him and just talked softly to him, after a while sitting on countertop edge he did go behind the few separate countertop surface sheets I have leaning against the wall there, makes good hideout for him.

That small room is mostly storage of construction materials for kitchen renovation project which I have planned to start many years now.

Could not find other one, there are lot of hiding places in that warehouse as it is old hardware store's building, about 18 feet high and lot of shelves and sections, so humane trap is only way to really trap any cat from there, cat can hide so well in there, also one of my cats can escape from there but I have not found any kind of way for cat to escape from there, they outwit me so easily :D

But I don't think that spayed female will find way out, I have made also cat door and made it more interesting for a cat so probably I get her trapped indoors after evening darkens.
 

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I hope all goes well with them both.  It is wonderful that you are able to help them.  Let us know how it turns out.
 
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It was complete failure, both managed to escape from unknown route.

Funny thing is that I have gone warehouse trough inch by inch and there are no any gaps where they could sneak out, but they did.

However long lost spayed girl was on yard this night and I offered some wet food to her, she has been indoors and she has allowed me to pet her, but she was so feral now, was very alert and ready to run even when I moved at 30 feet away from her, but she did return to get wet food.

She is very skinny too, but maybe she stays around for now.
 

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Oh rats.  Cats are so clever.  I bet you will be able to feed the female and win her trust again.  If she's hungry enough she will come for the food you put out.
 
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