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Kilz is good, so is a vinegar rinse.

Some pills in the dog is better than none <G>. My good dog, OBeau was a champion pill avoider. He could detect and spit out any pill from any treat. Smashed pills mixed with 1 T canned food finally did the trick. A good thing because this Summer he was very ill and needed medication 3 times a...

I hear you. we got lucky with the timing here... were we to do it now, it would be an expensive nightmare.

Kitchen appliances here were electric. boo hiss. Major heat source to appliances is propane. We had re-plumbed the clothes dryer to propane from electric. How big a deal could it be to take out the electric cook top and replace it with gas, re-plumbed to propane?? well now. It was an adventure...

in some soil types that would work quite well. we have rock and clay and hardpan.

or it could be a different style? Dunno. It's not inexpensive but sure has saved us some heartbreaks.

We don't have a problem with it being nonfunctional. It's been installed for 3 years, we test it regularly. It works for us.

The dogs learned their boundaries quickly. We do not use the "shock" signal, just the audible. The dogs do not need the collars all the time... we seem to put them on for about a week every few months. Interesting, when we are away from home and the dogs are loose, they keep a perimeter equal to...

yes, true. But there are staples and pneumatic staples. One is not strong, the other might be strong enough, depending.

It is always helpful to me to know where folks are. One size doesn't fit all when it comes to weather, local ecosystems or predators. We are in N Central MT, USA. It's a semi-arid zone, less than 12 inches moisture/year. At our elevation, and in dry land foothills, fox, raccoons, weasels are not...

sometimes they are called "landscape staples". They come in varying sizes but are basically large U shaped staples. We use them to hold drip lines in place, our "in ground electric dog fence" in place, to hold cages over plants we are trying to keep the deer out of and many other things. Check...

About that bee: we have several colonies of honey bees. Mostly they are not bothered by us and are only assertive if we open the hives for some reason. Last year however, there was a guard bee that took issue with us to the point she'd follow us to the house from the Bee Yard, buzz us...