[TheForge] Re: slack tub - YAK

Thu Nov 14 12:45:00 2002

Why would you want the dog to stop drinking out of the slack tub?  It's there, and it's water.  Do you try to stop the dog from eating coal too?  It makes them black.

Phil

>
>Actually, my slack tub (5 gallon plastic bucket)  froze up a few times last 
>winter, but not hard enough that it broke the bucket.  I read in a book 
>somewhere that a oak board stuck standing up in the slack tub will help some 
>on ice expansion, but that probably is for the first couple of inches of 
>ice. 
>
>This year I already put  a bunch of softener salt in the bucket and about 
>half a bottle of dawn dishwashing detergent. Between the soap and the salt, 
>the dog finally stopped drinking from bucket!  Perhaps it is a little like 
>super quench without the basic "H" 
>
>Dann Johnson 
>
>
>northwoods writes: 
>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>> Sent: November 14, 2002 6:58 AM
>> Subject: [TheForge] slack tub 
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>>> isn't anyone going to ask how to keep the slack tub thawed this winter? 
>>> 
>>> bob s.
>>  
>> 
>> So...  how do you keep the slack tub thawed? 
>> 
>> T. Clark 
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