Is there a point in a male cat's age that if they haven't sprayed, they won't?

See, now I thought this same thing 3 years ago.

And then all it took was one night, while sitting inside with my windows a crack open, was a female cat call way off in the distance. Since that moment, his spraying began. he was almost 2 years old and lived with 3 other male cats and never sprayed once. But that wandering female is what it took. He wa sthen nuetered 2 days later after lots of supervision until I could get him in. I would do it now, or as soon as you can just to save your sanity.

well, I've worked with the humane society for years and I can remember one particular case that shows a cats ability to learn to spray when you think it never will:

we had a 9 year old female cat who was surrendered to us,

apparently she was spayed at 8 months and lived the life of an average indoor cat never spraying and never doing anything too terrible, then one day the owner came home from work and the cat, instead of behaving lovingly as she usually did, went into the owners bedroom and sprayed her homemade quilt which was hanging off the bed...the owner took her to the vet but they found nothing wrong with her, then the owner brought her home thinking it was a one time thing. Wrong! The cat continued to spray the house for several months until the owner brought her in for surrender. We still don't know what caused that cat to start spraying...they say that males have a 65% chance higher than females do of ever learning to spray HOWEVER if you get your pet altered by the time they are 6 months old then any chance that the pet will spray will be cut down 90%...that still leaves 10% of cats who learn to spray after being altered. The sad thing is that most people do not know the difference between spraying and urinating outside the litter box (one is a small amount of smelly urine on a vertical object to mark territory; the other is a large puddle of urine on a horizontal surface similar to what is done in the litter box). You're never really out of the clear but as long as you take the extra measures to ensure your cats happiness then spraying should never be an issue.

note: cats are very territorial and the two easiest ways to make them happy is to provide them with their own safe-heaven (buy them a kitty tower) and if you keep their litter box clean, both of these things will make your cat happier and a happy kitty is less likely to learn to spray.

The majority of male cats if neutered early enough will not spray. They need to be neutered before this behaviour even starts. If they have already started spraying it will be difficult if not impossible to stop, neutered or not. I have an 11 year old male, he was fixed very young before he started to spray. He has never sprayed to this day, and I highly doubt ever will. He remains 90% an inside cat, but insists on going on the porch daily and smelling all the other cat sprays, but never has he remarked the territory.

If the cat has been neutered, I would imagine the answer is yes. If not, then, although he's never sprayed before, he might if he has an emotional upset (a strange dog in the house, or a new kitten vying for attention) that would trigger this response.