[edit] Sorry title should say Below Zero Temps (after WindChill), but I can't edit the title.
It's going down to about -20 tonight and tomorrow night (there's warnings on The Weather Channel talking about staying out in the cold long will cause frostbite and maybe death). While I have 1 Small plastic storage container home (fits one Adult), 1 Large plastic storage container home (fits at least four 6+ month old cats), and 1 Large doubled up cardboard box (in a storage room underneith the backporch), all of which are lined with a low grade insulating styrofoam (I can't remember if it's doubled up or not) and I have torn up newspaper lining the insides, I'm not sure if that's enough to keep them warm in these kinds of temperatures.
There's basically 3 groups I take care of. 1 is group of 4 kittens (2 born Early May, 2 born early June), 1 Pregnant Female (the mother of the May batch) who doesn't particularly get along well with the others, and the last group is a mother cat and her 4 kittens born Approx Mid-Sept.
From what I've seen, the Mother with the 4 kittens and maybe the pregnant Female are tolerating each other down in the storage room with the cardboard box home (which we moved from out back porch down to the storage room so they'd be less exposed to the high winds we are having.)
I'm not quite sure where the group of 4 is, because of "faction problems" (The mother with the newest batch of kittens often tends to scare them out of the yard if she sees them.) , they don't often hang around too long unless I'm there since they love getting petted.
So far I've thrown a boiled egg wrapped in aluminum foil into the homes for warmth (my eye doctor said to use boiled eggs on your eyes if they are swollen since they keep very warm for a long period of time and can be reheated again and again. So, I figured, "Why not, it might be like a mini heater."). It's after 8PM on a Sunday so not many places are open, and I can't find anyone to drive me out to the mall in this cold. Does anyone else have any ideas on how to keep them warm with things I might have around the house, or would the shelters I have do the trick?
It's going down to about -20 tonight and tomorrow night (there's warnings on The Weather Channel talking about staying out in the cold long will cause frostbite and maybe death). While I have 1 Small plastic storage container home (fits one Adult), 1 Large plastic storage container home (fits at least four 6+ month old cats), and 1 Large doubled up cardboard box (in a storage room underneith the backporch), all of which are lined with a low grade insulating styrofoam (I can't remember if it's doubled up or not) and I have torn up newspaper lining the insides, I'm not sure if that's enough to keep them warm in these kinds of temperatures.
There's basically 3 groups I take care of. 1 is group of 4 kittens (2 born Early May, 2 born early June), 1 Pregnant Female (the mother of the May batch) who doesn't particularly get along well with the others, and the last group is a mother cat and her 4 kittens born Approx Mid-Sept.
From what I've seen, the Mother with the 4 kittens and maybe the pregnant Female are tolerating each other down in the storage room with the cardboard box home (which we moved from out back porch down to the storage room so they'd be less exposed to the high winds we are having.)
I'm not quite sure where the group of 4 is, because of "faction problems" (The mother with the newest batch of kittens often tends to scare them out of the yard if she sees them.) , they don't often hang around too long unless I'm there since they love getting petted.
So far I've thrown a boiled egg wrapped in aluminum foil into the homes for warmth (my eye doctor said to use boiled eggs on your eyes if they are swollen since they keep very warm for a long period of time and can be reheated again and again. So, I figured, "Why not, it might be like a mini heater."). It's after 8PM on a Sunday so not many places are open, and I can't find anyone to drive me out to the mall in this cold. Does anyone else have any ideas on how to keep them warm with things I might have around the house, or would the shelters I have do the trick?
