Speaking of warmth seekers, this was the scene in the cat house the other night when I went to check on everyone for bedtime. Back in late December I posted a photo of Tibby, Fibby and wobbly Mink, squished like sardines in front of that heater. This time Mink has a new crew of friends to enjoy the warmth with. That's one-eyed Lulu on the left, then Mink, next is three-legged Molly the tabby, and on the right is blind Cinder. Blind Herbie was trying to climb up my pant leg as I took the photo.
It looks like they're watching something off to the left, but really, there wasn't anything going on over there!
When we built this cottage we're using for the cat house, we used a different type of construction that is supposed to be super-efficient: the walls and roof are made out of a "sandwich" of OSB wood panels with a thick sheet of styrofoam insulation in between the OSB panels. The entire building was literally six pre-built slabs — four walls and two half-sections for the roof. It went up in one day. It is incredibly well insulated, and actually makes the building a bit too warm for my tastes … but the cats love it. Even if, as you can see in the photo, they can never get quite enough heat!
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