10/19/2026
Extra Amazon boxes? Shoe boxes? Please consider donating them to our cats♥️
Many cats are so fearful when they come in, especially when they are caught in a trap. They need time to decompress and using in boxes help.
We can take boxes at the shelter and at the Victorville Petsmart on Saturdays and Sundays when we are doing adoptions 😊
Thank you
Dutch researchers ran a beautifully simple experiment. They took nineteen newly arrived shelter cats and gave half of them a cardboard box to hide in. Then they scored everyone's stress for two weeks.
The box cats settled by day three. The cats without boxes took until day fourteen. Eleven days of extra fear, erased by cardboard. A follow-up study found the same thing: hiding boxes got cats to a calm steady state a full week earlier.
Here is the honest footnote the scientists add. Boxes lower stress. They do not get cats adopted faster. But a calmer cat is a healthier cat, and a healthier cat shows better.
Shelters always need clean cardboard boxes and the hands to cut doorways in them. Ask yours.
- Pawring Cats 🐾
