Keep your friends warm

My human found some tips to keep outside cats warm in the winter.

http://alleycatadvocates.org/communitycat-care-center/creating-winter-sh...

The winter I was on the farm, I lived in the shed. There was no glass in the door, and we could get in through a couple of places in the side wall. Most nights we slept in a pile of about 10 cats on a blanket, but sometimes the blanket got cold. Parker left when Rico had kittens just before our (Parker&my) first birthday, but that was warmer weather. He gave us hot water to melt the ice that winter.

Then we had to move across the road and the new owners of the red house tore down the shed. I was one of the last cats to move across (Parker went over there before even the humans did). The cats lived in the hay pen that winter among the round bales (Parker had become an inside cat by then), but they have moved to the side of the barn now. (The barn was not there that first winter.) They have square bales and can hide under palettes. There are a couple of mineral tubs that the cattle cleaned out that the cats can also use, and there are wind breaks (high dirt) where there are no barn walls. The cattle have eaten some of the hay, but it has been replaced. They have a heated water bowl, which is a nice place to sit when it is dry. There is a chair there so the humans can sit with them when they feed them, or the cats can sit on it when there's no human around.

We do have to keep the food away from the farm dogs and racoons and sometimes possums.