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Since most of the country is dealing with record high temps, I thought it would be great to get a thread going on what everyone does to help their ferals get through hot weather. I live in the Phoenix area (South Scottsdale, near Tempe) and summers are challenging. I'm currently caring for one feral female that I feed on our property (we created a space on the side of our house - it has cold weather shelters, and is gated off from the rest of the driveway in an effort to keep her and other ferals we've fed, safe from coyotes. It is HELLISH HOT right now and I'm doing things like:
Photo of her area, with her laying under her chair (one of spots that I try and wet down for her whenever she's not laying in it) - the large house to the left of the photo is where she lays under it, it has legs raising it a bit off the tiles.
- Filling large water bowls halfway and freezing them
- Wetting down dirt patches I've created for her in her area (it's gravel), and she lies in them when the shade moves over the area. She moves around with the heat and sun. She lays under her house in the morning, then moves to the front of our house when the shade hits it (it's north facing), then back to her "area" when the shade hits that.
- I water down all the bushes in the front of her house in the evening and water down areas I know she likes to lie in.
- The last few nights I've run our sprinklers in the back yard, in case she wants to go and lay in our yard (we have a dog, so she normally stays out of our yard, but I figured maybe in the middle of the night she might lay in the grass while it's quiet (no doggie door), since it's so hot out.
Photo of her area, with her laying under her chair (one of spots that I try and wet down for her whenever she's not laying in it) - the large house to the left of the photo is where she lays under it, it has legs raising it a bit off the tiles.
