I keep the fur dogs on the porch most the time, but on those hot days I take them inside to keep them cool but back out on the porch at night. The heat still affects them. I had filled the 'J' feeder to the top but noticed very little had been taken. The level just didn't go down. Then the weather took a nose dive down and the two bugs went nuts on that 'J' feeder. They ate about half the contents of a full 'J' feeder in one day! That slowed down fast but they are eating like horses again. Good. I do the same thing. Am down to only 3 watermelons a day now. Peekaboo has taken to sleeping in the tube snake. Her being blind the closeness of being inside that gives her some feeling of security I guess. Pester doesn't quite know what to make of it, she sleeps either in a hammy or the hidy hole box. Makes it easier to find her anyway. And so it goes here at Aarrow-Ranch, land of the horizontal forest ! Gordon, Peekaboo, and Pester-Doodle Rev. J. Gordon Bengtson Aarrow-Ranch Aviation Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 [Posted in FML 6448]