Animal Welfare Professionals

This is a photograph of an outdoor cat bungalow at Pima Animal Care Center in Tucson, AZ. Background info from original post: We live in a place that gets down below freezing (for a couple days) in the winters with highs in the 110s during the summer. Our shelter has an outdoor space we call the bungalow, where we can house our working cats. This is a shed with a covered catio attached. We can give the cats enough blankets and close the door/windows in the winter to allow acclimation a good 8 months out of the year. (I know Austin uses SnuggleSafe disks during the coldest winter nights.) Blankets should be fleece, as towels absorb too much moisture from the air, and you can use plastic tubs filled with straw or fleece blankets for nest boxes. This will translate well to relocation areas. Place your relocation crate out of wind/drafts, put a tarp on the side to protect it further. If using a crate not in a larger structure, a plastic airline crate provides better protection than a wire crate.Summer - I stopped placing cats from indoor-only homes into our bungalow once the daily highs were consistently above 90-95 degrees. Cats have higher body temps than us, and can more easily tolerate higher temps.
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