Not evil cat. Evil cat doesn't seem to suffer from stress. She is quite happy to be surrounded by waves of stress happening to other people as a result of her but she doesn't get stressed herself. Next door's huge tom does get stress, however, and he is suffering badly.
Poor old cat - he is one of the most massive cats I have ever met. He can sprawl on a wall and look really leonine, he is an absolute cuddle fuss monster and apart from some tetchy exchanges about his use of our garden as toilet facilities, he is generally welcome by us, if not evil cat.
At the moment, however, poor Oscar is suffering. His nerves are all over the place and he is pulling out his own fur. As the biggest tom next door, and the other tom still under a year old, he is responsible for guarding the clan. It's behaviour that has been seen with feral and semi feral cats. Oscar is supposed to square up to and chase off marauders. These days most toms are 'done', like Oscar, and Oscar is happy just catching the rays, being very large and bringing home lots of grey, furry twitching things, or the occasional magpie. Until the ginger gentleman turned up. Now Oscar is involved in regular turf wars with the ginger thug, and while Oscar is huge, the ginger gentleman is intact and psychopathic. Oscar is more of a lover than a fighter - or would be if they hadn't been pruned.
The real insult on top of injury was yesterday. Nice Mrs Next Door has a lovely new dog, a pedigree (not sure what sort, but she is so pretty and sweet, and registered) and poor old Oscar is being chased by her. I left the house yesterday and found that the new dog had chased Oscar just after he had had a tasty snack. Not only was Oscar chased out of his own home, but he left piles of semi digested cat biscuits all over our garden and was hiding under the honeysuckle, traumatised. He is plucking his fur like crazy now - but he is still a lovely cat. I hope things settle down for him soon. I would give him asylum, but I think evil cat could be worse.
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