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Do you feel guilty about the cat being outside?
I'm have guilty feelings with my 3 outside cats, 2 ferals and 1 incontinent stray. I feel so sorry for them being outside. I know 2 of them are old. I was debating cat door and electric blanket in the garden shed. Thought better of it, but...
No - Flumpers is back inside. I don't know why, but she won't drink out of her cat bowl if there is snow. She insists on licking snow off of the patio furniture. I do have one cat that is outside 24/7. That cat (Copy Caot, or It) I adopted as a feral, but it rarely hangs out with the rest of the feral colony. There is a guy in Bellingham who makes wonderful little cat bungalows that you can throw a heating pad into (he sells them cheaper than
PetSmart). The Bungalow has windows on 3 sides, and Copy immediately took to it. She/he is in there almost all the time, but when it gets really cold and windy, It either goes to the heated garden shed (450W flat panel radiant heater - I only put it on for the animals when I know it is going to be below 38 or so at night), or hangs out with the rest of the feral colony under a pile of boulders half burried by my compost heap. I almost never see the cats, but I find their footprints in the snow. The location must be warm though, because when the temperatures drop into the 20's or lower, It abandons the heated house for the feral colony while Flumpers prefers the heated cat house to the people house! I bought a second cat bungalow for when she insists on staying out. It is in a very sheltered area that I can see from my bedroom, on the opposite side of the house from Copy.
Wow, just looked out the window ... the snow is getting deep, but the flakes remain so small they can hardly be seen falling.
