I’ve started to use a wooden basket to carry out ice packs and frozen gallon jugs to the coop to help keep the chickens cool. The pink plastic basket just wasn’t up to the task. My inside cat has seen the basket go out many times. So she decided to try and hitch a ride (or it was a case of “if I fits I sits”, she is a cat after all). I wasn’t fooled.

She has since regularly settled down for a nap in the basket.

So we have started using a 5-gallon bucket for the ice, and let the cat have her chosen bed. Because we are cat minions.