Following on from http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?p=686308#686308
Meet Gizmo, a 7 month old ginger tom (or at least he was until yesterdays vet visit):
He’s settled in amazingly well so far. I’m hugely pleased at how comfortable he is with me and the flat after just a few hours (after just 10 minutes his tail was up and he was running over to me for attention).
I’ll post some more pics over the weekend.
I’ve never kept a male before due to concerns about spraying. I’ve heard they are a lot more playful than females. I hope you and the Giz have a great time. 
djm
Congrats on the new flatmate, chrisoff! How do you like being owned?
We used to have a neutered male housecat. (Lost him to cancer a couple of years ago.) The only time he sprayed was when we didn’t keep the litter box cleaned to his specifications.
What a beautiful cat! He really does look totally at home already. 
Meow!
Good find, Chrisoff.
Ginger cats are known for having a mellow temperament. Yours appears to be settling in.
Here’s mine, a rescue (trapped May 30), after perhaps 10 years wild. Has mild Chronic Renal Failure, and had surgery for a salivary gland cancer, involved lymph node, and a benign cyst. Not so wild, now. We’re just starting to bring him in the house (from the garage) for meeting with our former feral housecat.
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Kevin Krell
Hey! He’s a dead ringer for our Seamus! 
Does he talk a lot?
My Jonah is neutered, and he’s never sprayed.
My old female cat, however, Khani, used to urinate in my suitcase if I made the mistake of leaving it open…her way of protesting my going out of town, I reckon!
Redwolf
I’ve had males, and none sprayed–of course they were all neutered before they were old enough to begin spraying. The current one was 9 months or so before neutering and makes an effort to spray. backs up to the car when I come home from school and goes thru’ the motions of spraying my bumper! LOL, I suspect it’s his way of reminding me to whom I belong.
My sister had a neutered male that sprayed–tho’ he was neutered after he was several years old. He, ahem, also tried to mate with a 6-month-old catling in heat who wandered into the yard. After being neutered. My sister was shocked. 
I love the attitude in those pictures! King of his kingdom. He should be a great fellow over the years. Glad you had him neutered- you lengthened his projected life span considerably with a few snips. As young as he is, hopefully, spraying is not yet an ingrained behavior.
Sorry I’m struggling to type while laughing at him taking an extroadinary interest in what my fingers are doing while trying to scent the laptop at the same time.
cowtime, I got him from the Cats Protection League who neutered him on my behalf. Although even if I’d got him privately I’d still have him neutered.
He really is pathetic though, he just fell off the couch for the 3rd time tonight while rolling around on his side looking for attention. This is after he spent most of the time while I watched Heat (brilliant film) sleeping with his head on my leg.
As for talking, at the moment he’s still walking around the flat squeaking a lot but I think it’s because the people who were looking after him temporarily had other cats so he’s looking for them.
He’s fairly managed to cover the flat so far though. Most impressive so far was climbing up on top of my two guitar amps, jumping onto the back of the TV then jumping onto the sofa without knocking anything over.
He now seems to be attacking my mouse lead, it’s disappearing off the edge of my table…
Looks like an excellent cat. He should be a great friend.
So… feel better now do we? 
Oh, he looks like a such a little nut. I’m so glad you got a kitty and I can tell he is so glad to have a home and someone to boss around. Imagine him already sleeping with his head on your leg! Our cat Lilly hid under the furniture for two weeks after we got her—it was a little worrisome but she is okay now. Tell Gizmo that we are all very excited to know about him!
Congratulations and thanks for the pictures 
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You haven’t met our cat Flora. If there is no one else to play with, she plays with her invisible friend. She talks to her and everything.
Ooh, one of our old cats did that. Utterly mad it was and it had another cat (and a dog) to play with as well. It was female.
With regards to him already sleeping on my leg, he’s actually really clingy. Follows me everywhere, waits outside the bathroom for me and predictably he slept beside me on the bed (that is when he eventually decided it was time to sleep). He’s currently sitting curled up beside me on the sofa.
I’m going to go out for a bit later on to try and get him used to being on his own, otherwise he’s going to have problems on Monday.
And Annie, yes I do feel better 
He’s going to have a hard time convincing people he’s a tough guy if those pictures get around . I’m glad to see he doesn’t have a whole lot of trouble relaxing! Yeah, it will be nice for you to come and go so that he sees you will come back. I’m sure he’ll sleep a lot when you are gone and then keep you up all night playing—just kidding!
Awwwwww. Cute cat, Chris!
(I’m a sucker for pictures of them sleeping with one paw over their eyes.)
He’s just spent most of the night using my flat as a high speed assault course. That was pretty funny. Think I maybe overdid the catnip I was spraying on things…