Cat Housing in Shelters
- 1. Cat Housing: New Directions in Creature Comforts
- 2. Cat Housing: San Francisco SPCA
- 3. Cat Housing: Nebraska Humane Society
- 4. Cat Housing: UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
- 5. Cat Housing: Animal Humane New Mexico
- 6. Cat Housing: Animal Friends, Inc.
- 7. Cat Housing: Cat Care Society
- 8. Cat Housing: SPCA of Central Florida
- 9. Cat Housing: Humane Society of Sedona
Cat Housing: Nebraska Humane Society
The following is from the Summer 2010 issue of Protecting Animals, American Humane's quarterly journal for animal welfare professionals. Used by permission. To learn more, visit www.AmericanHumane.org.
By Nikki Harris, Executive Director of Nebraska Humane Society
We just renovated our cat cages to
expand the cats' space by adding
portholes. We have a bank of eight cages where
we can open up two cages
side-by-side, as well as four
cages that are already large.
In the rest of the 54 cages, we created the opportunity
for the cats to have fourplexes by adding portholes
that allow the cats to move up, down or sideways to
adjacent cages. The up/down movement provides a lot of
entertainment for the cats and the customers!
We also received a donation to convert a dog-nursery
area into Cat Alley, where we group-house cats in the
summer when we get busy. We cut down the walls,
added benches for the public, and provided lots of places
to hide and vertical space (including walking platforms
up high) for the cats. We also have two rooms we can
convert using cat trees and furniture during high volume
months.
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