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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2006Special A/C for cats!
Got this idea from discussion in recent thread.... I put 4 plastic gallon jugs filled with water into the freezer last night. Today they stand two at a time on a towel in front of a floor fan, and in front of that is a whole bunch of flat cats. The outdoor temp here today reached 104 F. - with heat index it was probably over 110 F. Inside the house got uncomfortably warm. I knew this would happen because the overnight low last night was near 80 so the house couldn't cool down. But the cats are not suffering! >Got this idea from discussion in recent thread.... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >happen because the overnight low last night was near 80 so the house >couldn't cool down. But the cats are not suffering! No air?? > No air?? Sure, there's air in the house, or we'd all be dead. It's very warm air today.... >> No air?? > > Sure, there's air in the house, or we'd all be dead. It's very warm > air today.... ROFLMAO but no air-conditioning, kraut :) Jill > Got this idea from discussion in recent thread.... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > this would happen because the overnight low last night was near 80 so > the house couldn't cool down. But the cats are not suffering! Glad my suggestion/idea helped, Pat! I never thought about frozen jugs of water! Much better solution than buying bags of ice! Way to go! Jill >> Got this idea from discussion in recent thread.... >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Glad my suggestion/idea helped, Pat! I never thought about frozen jugs of >water! Much better solution than buying bags of ice! Way to go! Just remember that, if your freezer is located inside the house, the net effect of doing this is to make the house warmer, not cooler. If you live in a location where doing so is safe, you might want to consider moving the freezer temporarily out onto the back porch.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Just remember that, if your freezer is located inside the house, the > net effect of doing this is to make the house warmer, not cooler. If > you live in a location where doing so is safe, you might want to > consider moving the freezer temporarily out onto the back porch. But if the fridge/freezer was outside it would have to work a lot harder than it does in the house. It's sooooo much hotter out there! >> Just remember that, if your freezer is located inside the house, the >> net effect of doing this is to make the house warmer, not cooler. If [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > But if the fridge/freezer was outside it would have to work a lot > harder than it does in the house. It's sooooo much hotter out there! I can't imagine having a fridge/freezer on the patio in the southern US anyway, so that's a moot point as far as I'm concerned. I'm just glad you were able to have a couple of jugs of frozen water. Jill > >> Got this idea from discussion in recent thread.... > >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > -- > John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com I didn't realize how much heat a refrigerator puts out until our air condition quit. Our (small) kitchen was noticeabley hotter than the living room, esp. in front of the fridge. Cooking was out of the question. We got really sick of microwave/cold food. But if I lit even just one burner, for a short period of time,, it raised the temp in the kitchen terribly fast. Sherry |
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