There is a way to comfort the neighborhood cats...A CAT HOUSE!
What? It certainly has meant something else in the past, but we are talking "rescue house for cats"...calm down.
A guy in Utah has been drilling holes in old Rubbermaid coolers and turning them into winter shelters for feral cats. If you've got an old cooler and the right drill bit, they cost almost nothing and only take about five minutes to make. He uses plastic coolers because they're sturdier, and he makes the hole using a six-inch hole saw that attaches to his drill like a normal drill bit.
Philip Rogich didn't come up with the idea himself. The ASPCA website has instructions on how to build them. But he's inspiring more people to do it.
Styrofoam coolers work and they're even easier because you don't need a drill. Either way, each shelter only takes about five minutes to make.
Cool, right? :D