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One of the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and best ways to built an insulated house for a cat or dog is to use an inexpensive Styrofoam ice chest. Put the lid on the chest and secure it by wrapping duct tape all the way around. Flip the chest over so the lid is now the floor. Use a sharp knife to cut an appropriate size door in one end for your pet. You can use duct tape to tape a flap in place to keep the wind out. The flap can be made from anything you have handy... a sheet of rubber, an old kitchen placemat, etc. Just be sure your pet can easily push the flap out of the way to enter and leave the "house." Place something heavy on the floor of the house (a couple of bricks, etc.) to give it enough weight so the wind won't blow it away. Add some straw, old blankets, etc., to give your pet a comfy bed. If you want to get fancy and show off your woodworking skills you can build a wooden exterior that can sit over the ice chest but that isn't really necessary. Styrofoam is an excellent insulator. This quick house will keep your pet toasty warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
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The rest ran out of the barn before I could snap their pic. They were not happy I was in there remodeling the other side of their home. Sorry the pic quailty is not the best.
This is Bumpkin on a sunnier day. She is the tamest. She sometimes sleeps in my lap and will let me pet her. She hates to be held though.
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I asked her, one particularly cold and snowy winter here in Virginia years ago, how the cats I fed but could never get near survived in the cold. She mentioned having wind-free shelter, that even rotten/hollow trees would do. I proceeded to convince husband to cut a cat-door in our garage door - our garage was stuffed to the rafters with tools and we never used it for the cars (unfortunately) - and put blankets in boxes and we had several nest in there during particularly cold snaps (and even managed to catch and spay/neuter a few). Our tools unfortunately ended up smelling like cat urine, but in exchange for the price of some kitty lives, I didn't care.
If your feral babies have places to curl up into tiny cat-balls and not have the wind wick away all their heat, they'll get through it okay.
As Tuesday Afternoon said, styrofoam containers - the how-to link she provided - also help a lot.
I was worrying this morning about all the strays in Boston and others places feet-deep in snow - how in the hell they're surviving. Dogs and cats 
Your feral barn babies are so lucky to have you!
and their shared body warmth will go a long way. bless you for what you do...
you did the best you could. Do not beat yourself up because you could not get all the ferals to accept a humans' help. You did the best you could today. Set up the houses if you can.
I did not know/realize there were ferals hiding under my car until my greyhound-mix flushed them from under my car in a car port in the wee small hours on a really really cold morning on a really really early morning a few weeks past.
You're right. I've done just about all I can. One of the cats is already sleeping in one of the cat carriers I stuffed with straw, and I got most of the holes covered over on the side with the straw mound and I will do a few of cardboard boxes full of straw tomorrow. I'm going out shopping with my sister on Friday, we were planning on it anyway, so I will see if I can find the Styrofoam chests too.
The kitties do love to hide under cars. Marnie's always looking under mine to see if there are any hiding under there in the mornings.
The weatherman said today that it's going down to probably 30 below with the wind chill on Sunday, so I'm grateful that at least today was sunny and above freezing so I could get the barn a little more buttoned up for them and get some more shoveling done so the.snow doesn't drift around my doors.
