3927. Stresses in cats can be many forms.

 1. Case 1. MOVING TO A NEW HOUSE RECENTLY. Painful urination and urethral obstruction recurred. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZKVPcXA4us

2.  Case 2. THREE TOM CATS live harmoniously together in this shophouse. Lots of space to wander. One litter box. The owner did not want any neutering saying the cats do not go out of the house. 

The dominant 8-year-old has his litter box and dislikes being touched by anyone. He sprayed on the owner's laptop after being bathed, destroying her database.  When her sister came and petted him, he hopped onto the table where the handbag was placed and sprayed on it. Look at his eyes. Does he mean business and want to be left alone. 

"This one-year-old cat needs to be handfed," the owner said when I visited her shophouse on Friday, 4 December 2020. This was the 2nd of the 3 cats. "He had a female kitten as a companion but I sold the kitten. After that he stopped eating!"

"How old was this female kitten when you sold her?"
"Around 6 months of age," the lady sat on her desk rubbing her left wrist  which was slightly swollen at the carpal tunnel area. "He eats only when I handfeed him!"
"The female kitten at 6 months is adult," I explained that the tom cat was attracted to her. "He is now lovesick."     

The 3rd tom cat was 8 months old. He liked to roam independently. Only the one-year-old cat was close to the lady.

Case 3. I recalled this case of the tom cat being a noise and odour nuisance to neighbours. He loved to spray on the walls of neighbours.

NEUTERING TOM CATS would have prevented such anti-social behaviour.