You brought the dogs up so I spun it back to you. I DID answer the question of benefits it is their natural temps. All reptiles need a way to regulate their temps. With 80 ambient and 90+ hot they can only do so much. If you ever wanted to breed you would have a very tough time at those temps. The reason why is because those temps are hotter then they are use to. Otherwise they would breed ovulate and have very few slugs at those temps. However that doesn't happen at those temps because they are getting cooked.