Yea this has been wierd here too. I put most of the dogs in the house when itwas going too 18 but I have two who won't come and I can't get my hands on (losing them would be no great personal loss; but it is the principle of not having an animal in my care dying of thirst). I also have all my chickens, ducks, and turkey still in their shed (I should have butchered and ate all of them). I have big ~20 gallon blue plastic tubs (used to be cattle feed tubs) I use for waterers/dog baths (can't have too much water here for an animal in a pen in Aug) for the dogs and a big rubbermade horse tub for the birds and I also have a cattle water trough for the wildlife and so I can grab 5 gallons of water to top off the tubs without hooking up a hose. Unlike Florida, we do get a little ice here so putting a fist through the ice each morning is just winter routine. With the temps, we have been getting here the past week I had to go to a shovel in about day two (I think I broke a finger!). After a few days of busting it open with the shovel three times a day the whole tubs froze solid. I still have a hole in the ice in the big trough. Three times a day, I bust the ice in the ice hole in the trough so I can pitcher water too a 5 gallon bucket and then distribute water to the birds and the dogs, knowing it will be frozen in an hour or two. I have never had to do this much work. I would have heated tanks if I lived up north; until this week they would be completely useless.