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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you offer the cat some sort of heated shelter in the winter, this is cruel. Straw in the garage is not enough.[/quote]

The barn cats in that part of PA are not in heated rooms during their colder winter. The owners say that the straw and heavier winter coats are enough and they have never had a frozen cat. Our garage is warmer than outside by about 8 degrees. [/quote]

My parents in the midwest always have an outdoor cat.

They have an unheated cat house with a piece of fabric over the door and some old towels inside.

Except for subzero nights, the cat sleeps in that outdoor house. They have never had a cat freeze or get frostbite or even sick from the cold.

My father will stick his hand inside the house to pet the cat, and even on the coldest nights inside the house is toasty warm.

Subzero nights he will bring the cat indoors, I think mostly for his peace of mind vs the cat's well being.

His cats always grow a nice, luxurious, thick coat of fur over the winter. Nature knows how to take care of things better than people do.

FWIW, their outdoor cats have lived anywhere from a year (complete accident involving a collar that could have happened indoors or outdoors) through arounf 17 years. Tue smart ones lived longer than the stupid ones.[/quote]

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