(WIFR) – While we stay cozy in our heated homes, stateline animal experts look to keep our furry friends safe from the bitter temperatures.
Temperatures below 35 degrees mean Karen Herdklotz, the director of Hoo Haven, must turn on heat lamps and bowls and supply blankets and sheets to keep the animals under her care nice and warm.
She says wintertime means switching from a one to two-a-day feeding cycle, to once every two hours.
“You put the food out and naturally it’s frozen within 20 minutes,” Herdklotz says. “So, we go back out in two hours, have they eaten it? If they have, we give them a couple more, if not, we pick up the frozen food and give more fresh meat or dead mice.
Herdklots explains many animals can stand 20-degree temperatures, but others become too cold to move…