Dog Woes

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garand555

Smoke Blower
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Apr 17, 2011
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Albuquerque
Sooo, I'm currently overrun with dogs. I have four myself, and I'm also babysitting my friend's English Mastiff. One of mine is a Great Dane and the other three are rescues. I have a feral coyote-shepherd-something else mix and another that has some sort of heeler in her. Then there's the ever hyper part lab who was rescued from a meth lab that burned down. I just tell people that she is a meth lab when asked what kind of dog she is.

Aside from dogs, I also have some unbucked and unsplit plum and peach, a decent pile of apple, a huge pile of oak and a small pile of cherry that I use for smoking. Well, the Mastiff and the meth lab like to chew on things. What do they like? Apparently they like cherry, and they can shred a stick of it pretty quick. I also have to question what copious quantities of Mastiff slobber on rescued cherry does to the quality of smoke! Why do they like to pick the wood which I have the least amount of? I wouldn't be happy if they were chewing on the oak, but at least I have a stack of it that is over 5' tall and I still have 4 cords of woodcutting permit left. I have an apple tree that I prune, I had to take my neighbor's out and kept the wood and I have another neighbor with an orchard. The supply on that is decent. The cherry is limited to what I get to prune off of my tree. Or they could chew on my giant pile of sycamore and elm and I wouldn't care one bit.

Unfortunately, threatening to wok the dog doesn't work on them.
 
Naw, but I'm starting to question if it's payback because I'm stingy and eat all of the smoked meats myself.
 
Well that’s all I got. Although you may be on to something being a self diagnosed smoked meat miser. I would suggest talking it over with the dogs and offer them a few samples as a gesture of your appreciation. If that doesn’t work I accept donations of all kinds of smoked meats, cheeses, etc., and I’ll tell everyone you’re the best, even if the dogs won’t listen
 
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