bbkaren
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Go to home depot and get a couple homer buckets ~$3 with lids $1, go on amazon and get a couple mylar bags and a couple oxygen absorbers, a couple bucks.
Pack them up, use your iron to heat-seal the bags and the food will be good for decades.
You've found honeyville grains? That's where we get our cream of wheat in 50 lb bags. You can't beat buying in REAL bulk!
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Gah, so sad.
It's cruel how they torture us, isn't it, these pets.
If only we could stop falling in love with them...
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Sandra, wow, that's a great price! Thanks -
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Definitely put some cinder blocks or something on top, at least temporarily, to keep animals from digging them up. That'd be a nightmare...
There are lots of ridiculous environmental rules here, and I'm sure there's some sort of "groundwater protection" laws against burying a pet. Even though animals in the forest die and rot in place all the time.
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Terrible situation...I can't imagine.
You're doing the kindest thing, though, rather than letting them suffer.
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It blows my mind that this isn't common knowledge.
But you'll note that I wasn't disparaging the husband, I was just urging others to be aware.
Obviously there's one person out there who isn't aware of what should be done, so there may be others as well.
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Not to go into why both dogs died almost the same time...I must have missed previous posts, etc. with information on that.
To your question, there shouldn't be "fluid" or anything to worry about. Any seepage would've gone downward, I'd think.
Obviously give several feet leeway, as you don't want to unearth the first dog when digging for the second.
I understand you want them together; but a few feet from one another isn't going to ruin their "togetherness". They are, after all, no longer living and couldn't care less how closely they're buried...
I'm sorry your pets have died; it's an unusually sad situation to have two at once.
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...the dog will have the be quarantined for a week to make sure there is no sign of rabies. ...
Am I thinking outdated procedures here...if the animal isn't current on shots, don't they normally kill it to look at the brain stem?
A week hence, your child is a goner.
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I can't imagine not verifying at the time of the bite, that the dog's current on its shots.
That's common knowledge...please folks in the future, learn from the OP's hubby's mistake.
His lack of follow-through is going to cause a lot of grief.
Just like with a car accident, you HAVE to get the other person's info. It could mean life or death in this case.
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I love dogs with people names! Please keep Henry... It suits him!
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Here in NJ there's an organization called "People for Animals" that does extremely low cost pet care. If you google "low cost pet clinic" and your local metro area, you'll probably come up with something similar.
Good luck; we forgo a lot of the peripheral shots and tests (i.e. we don't vaccinate against bortadella since our dogs aren't exposed to other dogs). For our cats we do rabies only.
Every year our township has a rabies clinic that's free and we take full advantage of that as well.
Obviously living this way, we run the risk of something going wrong so we keep our eyes open for symptoms and do the best we can...
Whatever condition your dog's teeth/shots/etc are in, I'm sure the vet's seen worse. You can always say you've been going through a rough patch lately and leave it at that. I doubt a vet is going to pass judgment or scold you!
Good luck, and if you can help it, don't procrastinate if the pup's in discomfort.
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Having had a bad experience with two adult dogs we adopted in the past, I won't recommend an adult dog with an unknown past to anyone with small kids.
You don't know what the dog was exposed to in its prior home, so it's impossible to rely on it IMHO.
Both of the dogs referenced above didn't exhibit their issues for about a year...until something triggered a memory and they reacted. Neither case was a serious problem on an ongoing basis, and we were able to deal with them but it certainly made us think.
One died of natural causes and the second one was put to sleep after he went berserk suddenly and attacked the cat as she walked around the corner in the kitchen. The cat had been with us before we even got the dog 3 years prior. He tore into her and nearly killed her; she got away once and he chased her down again and shook her until I was able to subdue him.
We put him to sleep that evening.
My 1.5 year old son saw this first hand; if it had been him walking around the kitchen corner, well, who knows.
Until there's no longer a little in our house it's puppies only. You just don't know what's in a dog's history.
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No one I know has had any real success with either one; certainly no more than simply planting in a container or in the ground.
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I bought a butter bell recently and keep it on the counter. This is the one we got:
That said, I've kept butter on the counter all my life (hmm...47 years this March) and have never been made sick, nor known anyone who was made sick from butter left out on the counter.
The problem I had is, periodically it'd get so warm in here that the butter would liquify and that was a pain.
The butter bell doesn't allow the butter to melt; it just stays nicely spreadable!
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I tend to think it is really important to support heritage seed sellers in your own region. If there are none that is one thing, but regionalism is an important part of heritage farming in general.
That said, Baker Creek (in MO) has purchased an old seed farm in CT (Comstock, Ferre & Co) so some can indeed take advantage of the regional thing.
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Another Baker Creek fan here; I also buy often from heirloomseeds.com and victoryseeds.com and am happy with all my purchases.
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Sanctimoniously presented, yes. Hurtful, yes. Thoughtless, harsh, overly blunt.
But in all honesty, (obviously except for the parts presuming to know the mind of the OP), every word of it is true. Dogs are a lot of effort and many suffer because people expect them to automatically develop into Lassie...and they simply don't.
They're a lot of work, and sometimes even then, it just doesn't mesh.
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No point in making the op feel worse than she already does...
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With small children, it's my opinion that a puppy is the best bet. An adult dog can have issues you'll never know about until they surface...sometimes unexpectedly and with dire consequences.
JMHO, a puppy raised properly by you, raised with ALL the humans in the house as his superiors, is the safest bet.
There are lots of great adult dogs in the shelters, but with a small child, I wouldn't rely on them not to have issues.
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Not directed at any one person; I was merely trying to emphasize that while it might have worked itself out, or been outgrown by other dogs...or that the HUMANS have adapted THEIR behavior to accommodate the dog, it might not work out the same for the OP.
No offense intended.
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It IS typical puppy behavior...when the puppy (and this dog is hardly an innocent little puppy at 8 or 9 months) is determining who is the boss in the family.
Dogs on furniture, never!
There is endless information on the internet about dog dominance. Please look into it.
There are signals you're giving to the dog every day that reinforce this dominance.
Just because some people think "a little jumping" or "a little nipping" that the dog "grew out of" is acceptable doesn't mean your child might not wind up with a devastating bite wound.
Other people's badly behaved dogs shouldn't encourage you to allow your dog to behave badly as well.
Nip it in the bud, now. Please.
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I can't help you with the "moral" end of it but I believe that google has different levels of search security; at my office it's set so that nothing inappropriate comes through (although sometimes something slips through anyway).
I'm not sure, but I'd imagine it's in your google search settings.
eta: Sorry, just saw that you fixed google already.
Wondering, though, what a "naked doody" picture is.
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Aggression and dominance BEGINS at play.
You have a big problem coming if you allow this to continue.
It's easy to fix; do a little research online and make sure the dog is submissive to EVERY human.
The results could be tragic one day if you don't set it straight now.
eta: Or rehome it before it's an adult set in its ways...
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I said yes, just because...well, with some moms you don't know.
It never hurts to let her know that she's bumped her head but seems fine, but if you DON'T call, you run the risk of the mom wishing you had let her know right away.
I guess it's also possible that there's a medical reason she'd need to know right away too...
Eh, I'd have called just as an FYI. "Hi, everything's just fine, but I wanted to let you know...etc."
Would You Eat This (Round # 3,380)
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As long as it feels cool I wouldn't hesitate to cook it (thoroughly, but you'd do that anyway) and enjoy it!