Cat question

[resonant]

Those of you who have male cats -- have any of you ever had any problems with a neutered male cat spraying?

Context: We're going to get a kitten soon! and the one we have our eye on is male. But I'm a little nervous about this, because one of my childhood cats got banished to the yard because he developed a spraying problem despite having been neutered.

What's the Wisdom of Fandom on this?

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[wychwood]

We have two cats, now 14 / 15; they are brothers, both neutered before puberty, and we've had a lot of trouble with them spraying recently. It's happened occasionally over the years, but in the last twelve months or so they've begun to do it regularly. We're not sure why; there's no obvious health / stress trigger, they get on fine, and while another cat has recently appeared in the area, they were spraying before that. So, yeah, it can happen. I believe it's rare, though.