Dot, Not sure if you're still on, but just saw this: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151219931374449.477932.144611599448&type=1
Having been in pre-hurricanes and Nor'easters, I don't know if this would really work. Seems the rocks are a bit small. I've had plastic that I nailed up ripped off my house. Kathy On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:54 AM, kat <merrykatme...@email.com> wrote: > Dot, > > Your husband sounds like a real kitty lover too!! The shelters he has put > together sound great and I hope the kitties weather the storm safely. > > I have been told that there is a high pressure system out in the Atlantic > (near Iceland?) that is preventing Sandy from going out to sea. So I have > been sending "dissipate" prayers to that system so that Sandy can change > direction before making landfall this evening!! I'm located in the > northwest corner of NJ, so I shouldn't get "hit", but losing power is > always a concern. > > Your kitties are in my prayers!! > > Kat ("Mew" Jersey) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: dot winkler > > Sent: 10/28/12 09:11 PM > > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM - QUESTIONS/reply > > > I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long > Island? > Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small > dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They > are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in > tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of > furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, > protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled tonight. I just > still am very worried. Hoping they will be okay. What experiences have you > had with storms and the cats? > > > ________________________________ > From: Christiane Biagi <ti...@mindspring.com> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:58 PM > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM - QUESTIONS > > > Am in Westchester (New Rochelle). Where are you? > > From:Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of dot > winkler > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:50 PM > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: [Felvtalk] STORM - QUESTIONS > > I went to the outdoor cat colony and dumped large amounts of dry food in the > 2 protected stations. I am very worried about the cats with the hurricane. > We constructed small dog-house like houses for them with tee pees around them > from wood pallets and some plastic. > What's the general consensu? How have any of your outdoor cat colonies done > in the hurricane situations? In Hurricane Irene, the group did okay but this > one they are saying is worse. Do any of you live around this area of the > hurricane approaching? > > > ________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > -- ---------------------------- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. <http://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer_fostercare.htm> If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/<http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/> Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.no-killnews.com/ (see the right sidebar) Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/ More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially http://vimeo.com/48445902 Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond: http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=537
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