Kitty infill housing

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There are two feral cats who currently live on our porch: Tampa, who’s always been here, and Willa, who used to rotate between a bunch of places but is now here more often than not. We think maybe Willa is Tampa’s kid.

A year or two ago, Ruth had the idea to get a pressure-activated heated pad for Tampa to sit on; turns out they’re affordable and use as much power as a normal LED bulb, so why not. Later we put a cardboard box with a hole on there to make a little shelter, and she’d been liking that a lot.

So this winter we replaced Tampa’s box with a more permanent heated shelter, then gave her old heating pad to Willa and added some walls to a table we had on the porch to make a more permanent shelter for her. They’ve been liking the new houses a lot, we think!

Anyway, something I just noticed this morning: Willa always used to go missing for breakfast on garbage day, I think because she preferred to chill in a quieter place somewhere while the trucks finished their noisemaking. But now she just stays in her house for it, and I think she must feel secure enough in there that she can ignore the hubbub!