Man Turns Discarded Coolers Into Winter Shelters For Stray Cats

Intelligent Living ^ | December 9, 2020 | Luana Steffen

[txnativegop]

As long as these cats are getting “fixed” somewhere during the process, I am all for it.

[Twotone]

The first step is getting them to trust you. Then you can get them to a vet for “fixing.”

[17th Miss Regt]

Get them to trust you and then betray them!

[6ppc]

There’s a guy in Hoover AL doing the same thing. My wife’s best friend checks them for him occasionally.

[lee martell]

That’s a nifty idea, as long as the stacks don’t slide off.
Maybe they are secured to something solid.
My first question is are these disposed of and replaced, or must the coolers be cleaned? If that part could be organized w/o being too labor intensive, it’s a good idea.

Check once and a while to make sure no snakes, possums or raccoons have decided to take up residence.

[kiryandil]

[txnativegop]

Feral cats trusting a human? a tall order.

[Twotone]

The coolers would be small to use for a litter place. Strays would just shelter in them & then go outside for defecating. Fleas might take up residence in the straw, but if you had strays using these shelters you’d probably only change the straw when the weather changed.

[Hot Tabasco]

What a great idea! I have a female cat with two kittens living under the deck across the street. They’re probably warm in this extreme weather but maybe it might help if I made one of these cooler houses..........

[Osage Orange]

I'd rather build Bluebird houses...which I do.

Last spring I had over 30,,around my property...and a nearby lake.

[SteveH]

“The discarded coolers” sounds like a good name for a rock and roll band... :)

[MacNaughton]

I have seen these shelters and the colony of ferals. They live right behind a vet’s office. God bless these himans. Overnight temps dropped into the hi 20’s, 2X this week.

[Viking2002]

I think that's how my wife got started. Now they're everywhere. I told her if I see one more, I'm getting my own animal control officer.

[siamesecats]

ping

[piasa]

Provide free stuff to animals or humans and in short order you can easily trap any of the takers to get their nuts cut.

[DBrow]

I made a shelter out of a styro cooler. Cats liked it! An opossum moved in for a while, but that was fun too, they are pretty cool even though messy.

I modded a have-a-hart so that I could remotely trigger it so i could trap specific cats (no point trapping the same one five times) and take them off to be fixed.

[Romulus]

Some humans have a knack.

[BeauBo]

[Envisioning]

LOL