Newhouse

We are very excited to begin building our new building! This building will be 48 feet long x 40 feet wide. and will have housing for 48 cats!

The land will be cleared on March 6 & 7 (weather permitting), and then truck loads of dirt will be brought in to level it. The building should be erected in the first 2 weeks of April. We will add pictures here as the work starts. Update: Weather has not cooperated, the building is supposed to be delivered May 7 (fingers crossed!!)

It will have space for storage of supplies (i.e. blankets, beds, litter, food etc) and space for a washer for cleaning all the cats beds etc.

The house will be laid out so even on cold wet, rainy days like we are having today (March 1, 2009) they will be able to go out on their patios. Each cat house will have its own outside garage door that can be raised during beautiful weather to allow lots of sunlight and fresh air in and closed during bad weather but still allowing them out onto the patio. They will of course also have heat and cooling.

Clearing the land

Amazing how flat you can make 17 big truck loads of dirt

Finally the house is going up

One building on the trailor, what a huge puzzle to put together!

Laying down the frame

Walls and roof going up

Outside frame is done, still needs the awnings, landscape and walk put in

The back side of the building. All the patio doors to allow good cross ventilation.

Now the fun, here comes the concrete. They have to do it in 2 pours, 1/2 of the building at a time. 28 yards of concrete!

Putting new meaning in
"Up to their ankles in it"

Frame work going up

Lots of insulation

We have ceilings

Wall coverings going on, windows and doors!! (this is the same area as the picture above)

Same area as the picture above it all finished.

Same area as the 2 pictures above, all finished.

Inside one of the rooms.

Finally it is moving in day! We want to thank all of our wonderful donors, sponsors, eBay Giving Program, Missionfish and the wonderful cats and woman from Catster for making this possible!

We had some wonderful help moving everyone in. Jody & Her husband Danny from the catster group arrived with a truck load of goodies from the wonderful members of the catster group! They donated a new tree, beds, food, toys and other items to help make the new house comfortable for the cats! You can read Jody's account of the day at : http://www.catster.com/cats/1006103

We had Sharon, our wonderful corporate sponsor on hand and 2 new volunters Dawn & Zack on hand to help. The fun begins, bringing everyone from the old houses and putting them into the right room in the new house. I wish we had gotten more pictures!