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He looks like he would break out of the trap in a rage and come after me!A lot of us have indoor/outdoor cats. If you think they would be happier with some outdoor access you could keep the safe room as your cat room, where they can come back for food and to sleep, and let them go out. It's usually safer to let the out in the morning and keep them in at night.
They can be spayed and neutered at 3 months, if your vet is willing to do it at that age. If your vet wants to wait until 6 months then they should be kept indoors until then.
Tom cats don't usually bother with spayed and neutered cats. The best thing you could do is get neutered too. Do you think you have any chance of trapping him?
Interestingly, I watched him walk by a few times, including last night when I was trying to trap the final kitten and had food all over the trap room. He will never go in there as far as I can tell. Which is fine because I wouldn't trap him in the room. The trap is big.
But I could just leave the trap out on the porch and put food in it to see if he would go in and take it. I bet he would eventually. The mother and kittens all go in happily. I have put food in there many times and disabled the latch, so they now think nothing of it. I never have had to use that trap on them, but did want to get them used to it in case I did. Below are a few photos of her eating in a trap that I set last night when I thought I had only caught three of the four kittens.
He is reasonably overt in his approach and must come through frequently. I don't think I could try to watch the trap and use the bottle approach, so would have to set it. Actually by tomcat standards, he isn't huge, but he is ugly.
I'd have to give him a couple thousand dollars in plastic surgery before he could reasonably serve as a pet. His entire neck seems to be exposed scar tissue.
Once I get the kittens dealt with I will consider working on him. Has anyone else ever neutered a big old street wise tom cat? What do they do when they are neutered. It seems that their entire existence is pursuing females and terrorizing other males. I guess they just sit around get fat and reflect.
I would be happy to keep the kitten gang as indoor outdoor cats. My neighborhood is safe and I would be OK leaving a window open if it wasn't for mosquitos. Maybe I need to find a cat door.
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