About PETIMBER

PETIMBER has shipped since August 2024, and the core of the work is winter shelter for feral cats and the strays that never come indoors. What the spec sheets will not line up for you: these builds are not equally insulated, and one of them is not insulated at all.

Pick your build by the winter you actually get. The wooden shelters and the Oxford-fabric XL carry thermal insulation barriers. The PP-plastic one trades that for a roof rated to 165 lbs of snow load and a shell you wipe clean instead of scrub. All of them run the same waterproof pad, and all but the plastic build give a cornered cat a second door.

Past the shelters sit dog ramps and stairs that fold flat into a trunk, soft playpens that pop up for post-surgery weeks, and a floor-to-ceiling cat tree. That tree hands back the corner a conventional tower eats. Different animals, one problem: your pets need something sized to the space you have.

Ask before you buy, not after. The return window through the retailer runs 30 days, and that is the cheapest way to learn whether your colony uses the shelter you picked.

Winter is the deadline the whole line is built against. A shelter that ships in July has to survive a February that arrives months later, on a porch nobody checks at 3 a.m. That is why the pad regulates itself, why the floor stands clear of wet ground, and why a cornered cat on most builds gets a far-wall exit.

The dog ramps and stairs came from the same reasoning applied indoors and at the tailgate: a 14-year-old retriever with stiff hips needs a shallower incline, not a stronger owner. The playpens fold into a carry bag for the two weeks after surgery. The floor-to-ceiling tree hands a studio renter back the corner a sprawling tower ate.