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A cat's temperature tolerance

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Ted Mayett - 01 Feb 2010 01:08 GMT
What are the extremes in heat and cold for a cat?  If domestics cats
unfortunately ending up living outdoors in a city and forced to find
food and shelter.  What are the temperature ranges they can survive.
Survival being they can breed and "thrive".
Bill Graham - 01 Feb 2010 05:29 GMT
> What are the extremes in heat and cold for a cat?  If domestics cats
> unfortunately ending up living outdoors in a city and forced to find
> food and shelter.  What are the temperature ranges they can survive.
> Survival being they can breed and "thrive".

Cats are warm blooded animals, so they suffer from temperature extremes even
as do you and I. fortunately, they are small and can squeeze into small
spaces, so they can find warmth in places where larger animals couldn't.
They can squeeze underneath my neighbor's air conditioning compressor and
beneath people's houses where there are hot water pipes and running washing
machines and dryers and the like, so they are able to survive under some
pretty extreme conditions. But I leave the side door on my garage open a
foot or two all winter, and put cardboard boxes up against my house with
heating pads and stuff like that for the feral animals whenever I can.....It
doesn't take much to save a cat. That's one of the reasons why I like them
so much.
Ted Mayett - 02 Feb 2010 17:04 GMT
>> What are the extremes in heat and cold for a cat?  If domestics cats
>> unfortunately ending up living outdoors in a city and forced to find
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>Cats are warm blooded animals, so they suffer from temperature extremes even
>as do you and I.

Dogs are warm blooded animals.  Yet some of them would die in
temperatures exceeding 60degrees as they are Polar dogs or whatever
they are called.

I saw a cat outside in like 20degrees, walking along as nonchalant as
nonchalant can be.  I die in 20degrees without heavy clothing.  But it
seems the cat could survive, could breed thereby perpetuating the
species.

My cat in the desert, he had no problem with 100degree weather, but I
was quite uncomfortable.  I just read where they can live in as high
as 150degrees I think it was.

Plants differ, as do warm blooded animals.  For something like a
cactus there is a temperature range, that would differ from other
plants.  Yet they are all still plants.

I was just curious about that species of animal we call a cat,
specifically a domestic cat.  What their temperature survival range
might be.

I found for the highs, and read where there are cats in the antartic.
I was just hoping to avoid some hours of research, that maybe somebody
here already looked into this information.
Matthew - 02 Feb 2010 17:17 GMT
>>> What are the extremes in heat and cold for a cat?  If domestics cats
>>> unfortunately ending up living outdoors in a city and forced to find
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> I was just hoping to avoid some hours of research, that maybe somebody
> here already looked into this information.

Cats where originally desert creatures

You have might have seen the cat out in 20's  does not mean it was doing
good.  Ask any rescuers how many times they find frozen animals
 
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