Kitties and Cold...

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

Can kitties survive temperatures under 25 degrees F? Mine are outdoor cats, than stay in a pen next to our birds, and we are going to Illinois this weekend and i'm worried about them.. They have 3 walls, and the front is wire. We are going to put plywood around the whole front but keep a little bit open so they can look around outside. Plus a heat lamp through the winter, but we are going to do this after we get back from Illinois.. Do you guys think they will be fine?

Thank you!

 

[Dar]

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as long as the cats have a place to hunker down thats dry and draft free they should be ok. barn cats survive all year round in unheated barns

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

They have a draft free place in there, there is a blanket over half of the wood box I have for them.

 

[ChickenfootDuckbutt]

they'll be fine, cats grow thick coats in fall if thats what they're used to.


so long as they're healthy, and in good weight, cats are pretty tough.

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

Oh, yes they are healthy.

My one cat, Cinnamon, is naturally thin, we are thinking because she was a rescue, and starved.

 

[sourland]

Provide a sleeping box filled with hay/straw/blankets and they should be fine. A VERY FERAL cat showed up here last winter. She spent half the winter living under a coop/loft that houses some of my pigeons. She finally moved to a utility shed where I provided a sleeping box filled with hay. She was sleek, shiny, and fat. After a brush with a coyote this spring, she left. I thought that she had been killed, but she came back about a month ago. She will no longer go near the shed - I think the coyote trapped her in there. I'm not sure where she will spend this winter?

 

[Glenmar]

Cats are pretty tough.

 

[HollyBird24]

My cats live outside all winter long, sometimes they sleep inside, sometimes they don't.

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

Phew, thanks guys! I feel a TON better, we are having out neighbors watch over them.

 

[welasharon]

Heat lamps can be so dangerous...be careful. Our house burned from a light over some puppies and chicks in a garage.
sharon