They just get enough in their little container for their daily serving. They finish it up in about 15 min, then I take the container inside and wash it, so no chance of freezing, but ty! Hope you get to feeling betterLast couple days.. I have been giving the poor fatherless dogs dry crumbles.. I have been ill.. Covert 19 or China Virus or just old injury which incapacitated me.. Literally.. Looking to call Hospice and a Morphine drip button.. That bad.. better now. They won't eat it and the water freezes in this subzero too single digits on a heated pedestal.. Second week going on three.. I give them scratch before I enter the run.. keeps them from underfoot.. literally. Stepped on one and she still limps. FF is all they will eat now.. and water was not an issue in winter. It is now.. Freeze's.. I cover my FF to keep out the schmutz and drowning mice.. This is important to keep out the harmful 'MOLD'.. Just a suggestion.