Comments on: Upset About Freezing Cold Feral Cats

By: spot

spot — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:22:23 +0000

Jules you are the smartest kindest person. You are so smart. I have a feral cat. My daughter feed it for weeks then tricked it by putting food in the back sit of her car. The little thing just jumped in and she drove this little gray no tailed cat to my house and let it go. She stayed upstairs for weeks looking over the banister at these strange aliens bringing food and water up and banklets. I even put outside dirt in a liter box for it. Now she is a member of my family and is rightly so called nubbie.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:43:28 +0000

Up in the Toronto Canada area I have painstakenly researched & then planted a wildlife forest for all wild species indigenous to this area for food, shelter & habitat for the four seasons and I have to tell you… it is wonderful! 500+ birds (so many varieties), hawks, foxes, flying squirrels, chipmunks, possums, deer etc… and feral cats.
My heart goes out to these feral cats as the ones that come here seem to have had a home at some point. Some I’ve been able to bring over to the “human” side (usually takes a complete year commitment) and have successfully adopted them out.
Other more wild ferals… I feed them so they leave my “birds” etc alone (it has been extremely successful).
I feed them in a few large heated dogs dishes that are covered by a bid blue box on its side. This also proctects them from the weather. I also have these “heated” trays at the food dishes. Once an animal steps onto the “tray” it heats up enough to take the current chill from them whilst they eat. The possums eat from these dishes as well. I also provide several ground level heated water trays (large litter trays) so everyone has an ample fresh water supply.
Over the years I have purchased several small dog Ingoos (meant to be an outside dog house) and I puchased the fitted cushions as well. I place them in protected areas where the can escape easily without any fear of other animals.
This is where I tend to be called an “extremist” as I hook up heating pads on low setting then place dry old towels (that get washed weekly) over the heater in these small dog igloos so they actually have someplace warm to go when the need or want it. *smile*
We’ve already got snow on the ground and the temperatures are freezing. I too feel for these wonderul critters and try to give them a fighting chance to survive.

Regarding them using their yard as a little box… just think out it as the potential of great manure. Don’t sweat the small stuff. *smile*

By: admin

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:51:03 +0000

Kathie,

I know I might not sound like a very nice doggie, but I’m so little that I won’t let my owners take in any kitties, they might hurt me…I do chase them out of the yard, yes, I guess I’m a tough little dog when it comes to other animals invading my territory. But my owner always feels sad when she thinks about the freezing cats out in the cold, two other neighbors feed them regularly, and my owner sometimes throws scraps of meat from dinner out in the yard away from the house, but not too often because, unfortunately, they also think of one part of our yard as a nice place to use the same way as a “litter box”, if you know what I mean >;-)<