Dang Dog

[greeneggsandham]

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Not to hijack the thread, but do you have a recipe for those yummy sounding cookies?

 

[greeneggsandham]

Did you call AC to find out why the pit was released after biting someone?

 

[FarmerJamie]

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Not to hijack the thread, but do you have a recipe for those yummy sounding cookies?

No problem!

2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg or ginger
1/2 cup soft butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar (we use the dark variety)
2 eggs (fresh from the coop this morning!)
1 cup mashed pumpkin (I boiled it first (25 min)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I threw in some chocolate chips,too)

1. Combine dry ingredients, set aside
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy
3. Beat in eggs

4. stir in pumpkin and vanilla
5. add flour mixture, mix well
6. Drop by rounded teaspoons on greased cookie sheets
7. Bake a 375 for 12-14 minutes

Frosting -
1 T butter
1 T milk
1/4 cup pumpkin
1/4 tsp cinnamon
powdered sugar

Mix the first four ingredients, add powdered sugar until you get the consistency you want.

From "The Practical Produce Cookbook" by Ray and Elsie Hoover, ISBN 0-9656842-9-6, Little Mountain Printing, Bethel PA.

I LOVE THIS COOKBOOK

 

[PineappleMama]

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I looked up the Dangerous Dog stuff for Arlington... seems like there are quite a few loopholes that can get a dog off on that charge... even in your own yard it can be considered their territory (thus totally okay to bit to defend it) even... then neighbor said they'd quarantined the dog... I guess to check for rabies... but after that he just got treated like any other picked up dog I guess.

If he had been tagged a dangerous dog then there's a whole mess of complications, special license, $100,000 in liability insurance mandatory, extra impound fees...

I just don't understand why the devil the dogs are back over there if their owner moved out. That makes NO sense at all. Unless they're holding whoever lives at the house responsible... which seems odd... this happened right at the end of Aug... she was out by Sept 1st as per the lease... new folks had their own lease... seems odd that they'd hold the next people to rent the place accountable for the previous renter's violations... code stuff I could understand... grass to high and whatnot... but the other person's animals? That seems unlikely... I donno maybe she got them out, brought them here, and then moved? But that would make no sense either...

I'm totally lost about the whole thing. The neighbors did come home for lunch, saw their trucks, but couldn't dash over and talk because I was smack in the middle of doing DD's hair (see Sis deserves a beatdown topic for THAT rant).... they didn't come over... no word at all... which isn't comforting... but they've only so much time on their lunch... when the dogs were loose two talked to me, the third was still at work... but had to dash to eat and get back in time... talked more after 5... so maybe they'll do that today.

I'm a nervous wreck. Need to go get eggs (water and feed are fine, no stress there) but I'm hesitant to go into my own backyard... knowing they start ramming the fence when there's any noise back there... chicken, dog, human, squirrel... doesn't matter. Heck a squirrel ran along their back fence (runs the same as OUR back fence, aka perpendicular to our shared boundary) and they went nuts and started smashing into the fence... NOT the fence where the dang treerat was...

ANYWHO... still just sitting here stewing...

 

[love_a_duck]

what is bear spray?
sounds like a great idea!

and pineapple mama, i agree, that unless you have been properly trained with a weapon,
it is dangerous to everyone.

damn, this sucks and i am sorry.

beth

 

[PineappleMama]

I've heard wasp spray is good for self defense... sprays 10 or more feet... maybe I should get some of that? I assume it works on dogs? Have to be sure an ONLY use it if the dog is in our backyard, but still, might be enough to ward off an attack. And it's probably a LOT easier to find around here than Bear Spray.

Anyone know if that would work?? No word from the neighbors. DH is pizzed that that dog is back. He knew about the Boxer, but not that one. He said the guys told him those girls (plural?) are TRYING to move out... isn't that great.

He's also got no problem with the Boxer, Tank. When it was only one picket down before Tank would put his face up there, with the droopy cheeks and the pitiful puppy eyes and let out this teensy little "pwetty pwease pet me" whine... the pit would put it's head up there and snarl and snap. The heeler stuck his head through and ate my rosemary. Not vicious, but he is on my list.

Meh, I have to sort out supper...

 

[FarmerJamie]

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Glad I could help.

somehow I got 7 half pints, didn't strain out the liquid at all? I used a mix of peppers, green, yellow, and something my wife brought home. Kitchen smells great!

Those seranos might give the pit something to chew on , eh? Nah, terrible waste of peppers.....

 

[PineappleMama]

Hmmm.... that IS a thought... Dee (friend and owner of Creative Hands, hang out there while kids are in Karate next door) suggested electric wire across the top of the fence... but of course, it's their fence.

Went out just now, eerily quiet... some barking... but no banging... so I donno what that's about. Maybe they brought the pit inside? DH says that's the one that really does most the barking... which gets ours barking... and so on.

*shrug* Guess we'll see. I need some more skeeter spray so may as well price wasp spray while I'm about it.

 

[PineappleMama]

Didn't hear anything before we left... but they don't always bark so no big. I did notice that the zebra print blanket? that was over the front window (blinds mysteriously destroyed from the bottom their first week there, dog much?) was gone... thought that maybe the gal/s were packing up...

DS looked through the knothole (woulda warned him if he'd bothered asking) when we got back from getting a bite...

NO dogs in the backyard.

So... think maybe the guys put their foot down... they're on the lease now, so they'd be responsible maybe... I certainly wouldn't want that on my back... no one came to tell us "Hey the dogs are history" or anything so they could just be in the house... we'll see.

Thanks again for the air to vent, much obliged.

 

[Brindlebtch]

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