Why keep entire cats?

[Kazz]

Moli's post about her neighbours entire Tom cat, prompts me to ask the question why do people keep entire cats Toms' especially aren't they "smelly"

[jenny]

cant answer ur question kazz, but when i was still living with my parents, we had a neutered male cat, and he stank something rotten! and my dads male cats still spray, but no idea if it smells?

[Fran]

Clooney is still entire at the minute and he doesn't spray in the house or smell...I must be lucky

[bobbie3917]

i used to have an entire tom Timmy and i lost him when he was about 3 and he didnt smell or spray in the house

[Kazz]

Okay then what makes "some2 Tom cats smell a friend of mine has a Tom cat KitKat and he smells no bad but enough he is about 8 now and has smelt since he was about 7/12 months approx.

[Moli]

The neighbour who owns this boy is 91..She has had him since he was tiny, she also had his sister, but she disappeared, he must be about 10 now..

[smudgley]

All the Toms I've had in - stink like "stinky old Tom cats" but all of them I've had have used their tray - & not sprayed, but the urine stinks very strong. However they have all been neutered & then literally day by day over the next week or so, the smell gets less "potent" until it just smells like "normal wee"
We have a big Tom who lives locally (not sure who he belongs to) he thinks he owns my garden & thinks he owns all the females in my pens he comes every night, yowls at the ladies, then piddles up a few things before going on his way.

[smudgley]

Here he is.....

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[Fran]

Awwww he's lovely Smudgley!

[Moli]

He a gorgeous boy....