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Well I'm hoping no cats got snowed in the shelters behind the garage Mom made me move to. I have Treasure/Sopdet's up here as well as Tourmalines but the other shelters are behind the garage. I can't be crawling on all 4s in 0 degrees -18 windchill and inches of snow either. Someone from the Winter Shelter group on Facebook posted a horror story/photo of cats trapped/snowed in the shelters. Ugh
What is the likelihood a cat would get snowed inside one of those shelters? Wouldn't they feel snow coming in and get out? I do wonder if people post stuff like that are just fearmongering especially to someone like me who panics if a cat sneezes twice.
All cats are accounted for. Sopdet is her usual nervous self. But I am thinking that they were hit with brooms when they were kittens as every cat from that hoarding situation runs if they see a broom 1/4 acre away. Shaman was the same way until she knew I wasn't going to hurt her. Treasure still runs a bit and Sopdet the poor cat who lost her vocal chords due to abuse as a kitten is terrified. I'm going out between Mom's tantrums to sweep the snow away from the shelter. I'd put the thing against the wall but T & S refuse to use it then. Thankfully our bad weather ends at 10 PM tonight in Bel Ridge MO and then tomorrow we have a heat wave of 16 with a windchill of 4 and then the temps go up after that.
Tourmaline survived yet another milestone of -22 windchill. I honestly think she's running across the street to the mayor's house and staying in the heated chicken house. Oh and the chickens are safe as Tourmaline does not like Chicken. Sopdet is now laying in the snow, Tourmaline is on one of those K & H self warming pads and Treasure is in the shelter. I think he has arthritis and this weather is not helping him much.
One thing though that we do have to remind ourselves of though is that snow does insulate and warm the ground. Think of the igloos in Alaska. When Dad was in Italy during WWII he never slept in a bunk. It was always in trenches and open fields hot and cold weather. He said that he would, if it snowed, pack snow around and over his sleeping bag which warmed him up even more. Anyway red fox visited this morning but ran off scared when Tourmaline came back from across the street. haha
What is the likelihood a cat would get snowed inside one of those shelters? Wouldn't they feel snow coming in and get out? I do wonder if people post stuff like that are just fearmongering especially to someone like me who panics if a cat sneezes twice.
All cats are accounted for. Sopdet is her usual nervous self. But I am thinking that they were hit with brooms when they were kittens as every cat from that hoarding situation runs if they see a broom 1/4 acre away. Shaman was the same way until she knew I wasn't going to hurt her. Treasure still runs a bit and Sopdet the poor cat who lost her vocal chords due to abuse as a kitten is terrified. I'm going out between Mom's tantrums to sweep the snow away from the shelter. I'd put the thing against the wall but T & S refuse to use it then. Thankfully our bad weather ends at 10 PM tonight in Bel Ridge MO and then tomorrow we have a heat wave of 16 with a windchill of 4 and then the temps go up after that.
Tourmaline survived yet another milestone of -22 windchill. I honestly think she's running across the street to the mayor's house and staying in the heated chicken house. Oh and the chickens are safe as Tourmaline does not like Chicken. Sopdet is now laying in the snow, Tourmaline is on one of those K & H self warming pads and Treasure is in the shelter. I think he has arthritis and this weather is not helping him much.
One thing though that we do have to remind ourselves of though is that snow does insulate and warm the ground. Think of the igloos in Alaska. When Dad was in Italy during WWII he never slept in a bunk. It was always in trenches and open fields hot and cold weather. He said that he would, if it snowed, pack snow around and over his sleeping bag which warmed him up even more. Anyway red fox visited this morning but ran off scared when Tourmaline came back from across the street. haha