You're so right everyone, and I'm soooo embarrassed at my stupidity- 80F of course is what I mean. I must have been somehow thinking how hot it seems to the poor blackies. They just soak up the heat like little furry, four-legged solar panels. Max though being about half white/pale grey doesn't suffer as much.

Another couple of days of it we're promised so its BBQ time tonight I've been off work all week with really painful sciatica and as I can't sit down, well I can only really manage to lie in the sun

Gary, yes you're quite right in what you say. I always think Dusty is the Moose's long lost sister. Why, if it wasn't for her Scottish accent, how on earth would we tell their little faces apart?? She asked me to pass on her regards to her fine buddy in Catada