Winter housing for homeless cats

Homeless cats have a very difficult time surviving a Minnesota winter. If you would like to create a shelter, check out the excellent model created by the team of Nancy & Tom and Carolyn in Bemidji. And read their story below.

I can attest to the fact that shelters like this, plus food and water, really work. I took in a mom cat and five newborn kittens that had survived several days of severely cold weather in early February last year in a shelter very much like this.
Denise


NOTE FROM NANCY:
We tried as hard as we could, but we were unable to live-trap a couple beautiful feral cats, so we made a winter house for them.

Used a great pattern found online where there is a plastic container within a plastic container, and the bedding and insulation is straw. The straw is packed tight so it should be warm for the winter.

The front hole is completed with one of my 7" tupperware plastic canisters so the cats come and go safely. Now will see if it works.

Ideally it would have been great to trap the cats and have them spayed/neutered, but they out-smarted us with every attempt. We will drop food out at their location on occasion, but I am sure they have a good diet with a restaurant nearby.

This is about all we can do for them at the moment......just thought you might like to see the winter housing.

Nancy