Yep. Mom, three boys, and maybe a dozen others over the years.

Lol. It’s ok. People like to feel helpful.

They're all pretty tame by feral standards. I can pick 2 of them up and love on 'em. One I have to love on from a surface. The one pictured can be an asshole though. 50% chance of drawing blood after petting him.

It's buried above...

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/10pzafv/one_of_my_outdoor_feral_cats_warm_and_cozy_in_a/j6o5cdx/

Lol. The fam got a kick out of that too. It’s actually so the other two can look “in” to see if it’s occupied.

It’s way overkill given the standard recommendation is to just foam insulate a large plastic container from Target. But the table saw was new and I needed a project. 😉

Mutual. ❤️

> but not sure if just a typo

It was indeed. Fixed.

> Crazy that that little strand of lights is increasing the temperature that much

Guess I probably should’ve posted a picture of the floor.

The lights are simply for illumination. The floor is heated with a heating pad designed for plant seedlings.

So it’s:

1. foam insulation
2. aluminum foil
3. 3/4 maple scrap
4. Heating pad
5. Maple scrap (over 100 holes drilled to make sure the heat radiates through.)
6. carpet

Floor setup

Interesting. I can see where just having bulbs under a raised floor would work well.

Don’t have any current pics of the floor setup, but here’s the “ceiling” w light and electrical cat-proofing.

cat proofing

e: over to under 😂

I bet that was a surprise.

right?! All this joker needs is a nice cat-sized Lazy-boy in there and he has a better setup than I do.

I suspect that might be too much heat. It's a small enclosure with 2" foam insulation on all sides. The heating pad underneath the carpeted maple "subfloor" + insulation makes the space probably close to 30° over ambient, so in freezing temps, it's about 45-55° in there.

Thanks for the reminder on bedding. Freezing temps happen here in Arizona, but they tend to be fairly short lived. I’ll keep an eye on it.

Thanks. Yeah, he’s the mischievous one out of the 3 that live in my backyard.

Funny, in the five years since I finished this shelter, he never once set foot inside of it until I got the lights working last weekend. LOL

Yeah, didn’t want to risk a fire hazard so I used an LED fairy string for the lighting, and a heating pad for a seedling rack as the heat source. Heats to ~20 deg over ambient.

All of it on an outlet timer

The lights are indeed brighter than what I’d prefer. They’re a string of fairy led’s that I modified from battery to plug in power via a simple 1.5v transformer.

When my “liquid electrical tape” arrives from Amazon, i’ll cover half of the lights to make it a little dimmer.