Please pray for Catmandu's Porchies

[Laura's Babies]

How about a storage container with a small light bulb for the porchies so the heat of the light could keep them warm? Or a heating pad? Straw? They say straw keeps them warm and soaks up to moisture.... or do what we did and use the storage container, wrapped outside with warm blankets to keep the heat in and just cut a hole large enough for them to get into it and turn that away from the wind.

[catlover4ever]

Straw/hay works as a really good insulate for cats, dogs, horses, etc.

I know how you feel Gary. I worry about Oliver outside at times like these. He came for his food this morning and when he meowed the steam came from his mouth. Oliver has a doghouse with 2 layers of flannel blankets, a self heating pad (it warms itself when the cats lay on it) and then I also put out 3 heated SnuggleSafe discs that are heated in the microwave (they give off heat for 12 hours).

My thoughts and prayers are with your porchies.

[Prairie Purrs]

My mom is always sending me food items that she orders from her favorite home shopping channel, and many of those arrive in small styrofoam coolers that have exceptionally thick walls. I've created some feral kitty shelters out of those by duct-taping two or three together (with holes cut just big enough for crawling through and a covering over the "doors" to the outside). I also use the self-warming pads.

[Husky15]

I will definitely be keeping the Porch Cats in my prayers during this cold winter.

[kimlovescats]

Prayers coming for your porchies, Gary! You do so very much for them .... just having food to put in their bellies will help keep their body heat up!!!

[Catty1]

Where do you get the self-warming pads??? They sound neat.

Gary - remember, there is Freecycle for styrofoam containers and such. Plus, some of your animal colleagues there might have an idea, or even a house or two!

[Prairie Purrs]

Where do you get the self-warming pads??? They sound neat.

I got mine from Petsmart: Thermal Cat Cushion.

Not as warm as an electric heating pad, of course, but it's something.

[AbbyMom]

Prayers for the Porchies!