Low curved tails are a sign of "apprehension" and that's all because the huge intact tom White Leg has just come over the fence and is lurking behind the soon-to-be-gone stuff the wife and I took out of the garage in the fall.
Catty Patty, her brother Tuxedo and in the rear their grandmother Nasty Mom are beginning to look out to the rear. I chased the cat back over the fence. I don't mind feeding the cat but with his balls attached he's a bully street tom and very aggressive. He's got no intact toms to challenge him and only numbers and feisty females (true! - Ginger & Bristol) keep him out of the garage and cat condos.
In the back of this photo is Nasty Mom. In the middle row (L to R) is Bosco, Garfield, Catty Patty, Tuxedo and the "forever Sphinx" Mr. Orange. Down below is Ginger and her daughter Bristol.
The wife will fund the capture and neutering of White Leg but I thought we had all that done last spring when cattrappers.org came in to help us trap and neuter all the neighborhood ferals. And we did it. And now there's a feral tom from out of nowhere that's a problem.