GRAVITY FEEDER
Gravity feeder, 6 lb
$21
For the weekend you're gone. Not for the whole month.
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AISLE 04
Barn, shop & porch cats · 29 things
Barn
Cats
Nobody buys a barn cat. One shows up, sits on the mower, and by the third week you're buying the good food. This is a dog store keeping a shelf for the animal that moved in on its own.
How to read this aisle
OURSWe make it. Ships from us.
DIRECTOur store, maker ships it.
Bowls & feeding
Steel, weighted, and off the ground
If you buy one thing on this page
The weighted
steel pair
$11
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Plastic holds the smell and the raccoons drag it off. These are heavy enough to stay on the step through a storm, they hose clean, and they cost less than the thing with a paw print molded into it.
What it beat
A $30 ceramic set that lasted until somebody's boot found it.
Who it's wrong for
An indoor cat with a whisker complaint. Get the wide shallow one.
HEATED BOWL
Heated water bowl
$34
Two weeks a year it's the most important thing you own.
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FEED BIN
Latching feed bin
$29
The bag in the corner is a mouse hotel. This isn't.
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Small stoneware crock
$19
Keeps water cool on a shop floor in August.
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Shelter & winter
Straw. Never blankets.
The pick
Insulated barn
shelter, straw-packed
$64
+ $9 straw bale
Small door, small box, thick walls — a cat heats it with its own body, which is the whole trick. Pack it with straw, not hay and not a blanket. Blankets hold damp and a damp cat is a cold cat.
The rest of the shelf
Straw bale, small square
Bedding, not feed. One bale packs three shelters and a hen box.
LOCAL PICKUP
$9
HEAT PAD
Chew-resistant heat pad
Steel-wrapped cord. Only run it off a GFCI outlet — no exceptions.
DIRECT
$42
FLAP
Vinyl door flap kit
Cut it in strips so a wary cat can see daylight through it.
OURS
$14
SHOP MAT
Wool shop-shelf mat
For the one who sleeps above the workbench and supervises.
OURS
$26
Build-it-yourself plans are free. Always will be.
Download the plans →
The one thing we'll push you on
Two cats becomes nine cats in about fourteen months.
Get the barn cat fixed. Most counties have a low-cost clinic and a trap you can borrow for nothing — we keep the numbers in the directory, sorted by county, with no ranking and nothing to buy. It is cheaper than feeding the fourth litter and it is the difference between a barn cat and a problem.
Fleas, ticks & the vet's part
We sell the comb, not the doseFLEA COMB
Steel flea comb
$7
Seven dollars tells you whether you have a problem before you spend forty finding out.
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TICK TOOL
Tick hook, two sizes
$6
Twists them out whole. Beats tweezers, beats every folk remedy you've been told.
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CARRIER
Top-load carrier
$38
You will never get a half-feral cat in through a front door. The lid is the point.
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Boxes & the indoor half
Because half of them come inside anywayHigh-side litter pan
Sold for storage, priced like storage, works better than the covered one.
$12
Mud-room boot mat
Catches litter and the dog's feet both. Shake it off the steps.
$18
Window shelf, bracket-mount
Holds twenty pounds. Ends the argument about the kitchen counter.
$28
Sisal post, floor-to-ceilingOURS
Tension-braced, so it doesn't walk across the room like the cheap ones.
$54
Ours —
the hayloft panel
Emily draws each aisle its own panel. This one is cut like an old woodblock print — two cats in the loft, a harvest moon in the gable window, and a mouse she swears is in there somewhere.
Hayloft wood sign
$38
Printed onto pine and sanded back, so the grain comes through the moon.
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Barn-cat enamel mug
$22
Speckled enamel over steel. It will chip. That's when it starts looking right.
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Woven throw, 50×60
$58
Cotton jacquard, woven not printed. The cat will claim it within a day.
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Framed panel print
$46
12×12 on cotton rag, plain oak frame. Hangs in a mud room without trying too hard.
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