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Help wildlife in hot weather! ☀️ Keep your watering stations, ponds and bird baths topped up with water, and let some of your garden grow wild to provide shade for animals. Watering plants in the early morning or late evening can help reduce water evaporation. Log piles, beetle buckets and bug mansions all provide a cool refuge on a sunny day!

12/22/2022

❄️ Cold weather and wind are coming!

✅️ Stuff your outdoor shelters with STRAW for your community cats to burrow in.

❗️Do NOT put towels or blankets in the shelter box. These will pull heat away from your cat rather than insulating them. Towels and blankets hold moisture, which will create an unpleasant damp and chilly environment.
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Straw will reflect body heat back to a cat and actually repels moisture. Straw is tough, thick, dry leftover stalks from crops. It's lightweight and golden in color. Straw has a hollow center which makes for great insulation (just like double pane windows).

Do NOT use hay (OR blankets) for bedding in outdoor cat shelters. Hay is green and heavy. Hay is typically used to feed animals, like horses. It absorbs moisture, making it damp, cold and uncomfortable for cats, and has the potential to get moldy.

Materials such as blankets, towels, or anything cloth (including fleece and wool) will retain moisture from the air and freeze, making cats colder. It is extremely dangerous for cats to sleep on damp frozen towels, blankets, etc.

You can buy straw bales at your local co-op, farm/ag supply stores, local garden center/nursery, Home Depot, Lowe's, Tractor Supply, or Ace Hardware.

12/17/2022

11/29/2022

It's getting cold, always give your car bonnet a bang before starting in case any cats are hiding in there.

11/23/2022

Easy peasy cat shelter

09/23/2022

CAMDEN, NJ – Lawn chairs come out in a parking lot at least an hour before the long-standing, third-Wednesday, event begins at Von Nieda Park in Cramer Hill.

09/15/2022

The News Tribune did a wonderful article about the catwalk!!