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yuckaduck said:
If it is raining I hide under an umbrella and once Yuck figures out he can't fit under it too, he goes ahead and plays and does his thing. Try bringing him in later though, he thinks it is great to get all wet and shake it off on me. For the love of our pets.
We are having a nice Florida thunderstorm. I brought the boys in from outside just before it started, after they were done helping me fill the bird feeders. So they have stuffed their faces and are curled up asleep in their crates. The girls and I just go on as normal. They go out the front door and have the fenced in patio and fenced in carport to be under to do their business. I also have the patio covered its entire length (22 feet), and it goes out 7 feet.
The birds outside use the green stop-a-squirrel feeders as shelter from the rain. The feeders have tops and sides that project out a ways, so gives the cardinals, finches and twitmice, etc shelter.
The tower feeders have 6 perches, and are protected by the trash can lids, so whatever birds can sit on those kinda smaller perches stay under there. The squirrels just get drowned.
It has been really truly tough here for the critters. Ivan and Dennis pretty well took out all the branches and leaves. Left little protection from the rain as far as the trees could give. There is a big fat brilliantly red male cardinal tucked away under one of the feeders as I type this. And he is also under the overhand of the carport out on lot 2 (lot 2 is outside my own fenced yard in here. It is also completely double fenced with chain link and stockade. I only let the kiddies out on lot 2 when I go out with them. It is pretty huge........and needs to be mowed, but that is another story....rofl.