I saw a dog urinate on a fence, and it was stuck there 'til Spring!
Actually…
Dog Left Outside Freezes To Sidewalk
Apparently the border collie was 50 pounds overweight and unable to walk, though it could crawl. I surmise from the article that the arrest was due more to the abuse-by-overfeeding than to the fact that the dog was left in the cold.
The two years I spent in Fairbanks many, many years ago had slightly cool winters. One winter it stayed below 60 for three weeks. The most wonderful thing I ever heard on the news was when the announcer said, “Good news folks, it has finally warmed up to 40 below zero.” Actually, it did feel nice and warm!
It was so cold:
The candle flames froze
When you spoke to somebody, the words froze and you had to put them into a frying pan to find out what you said.
True stories: On the air force base, they rotated the trucks and other vehicles. One third they kept in a hanger for a few days, other other third they kept outside with the engines running, and the other third outside turned off. Those then were pushed into the hangar to thatw out, and so forth.
The improvised engine heaters for the aircraft consisting of a canvas bag covering them and a blowtourch hanging below, sending the heat up. Otherwise, the engines would never start.
Out on the trail mushing a dog team for a week, the worst thing was dropping your pants to eliminate. The Eskimos used to slather bear fat all over their lower body to keep from freezing, but by spring, it got kind of ripe! We used Vaseline instead. You learned to take the fastest craps ever.
Of course, in winter it was dark all day. Early spring, the sun peaked above the horizon, did not like what it saw, and went right back down again. Conversely, in summer, the damn sun hardly ever set, so we had to blackout the windows to be able to sleep. In Fairbanks there used to be a tradition to have a baseball game in midsummer starting at midnight, as it there was plenty of light to play.
The coldest I ever saw was in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory when it got to 70 below one day. It was odd, but people walking along left contrails from their mouths as their breath turned into ice crystals. You would see a somewhat long, crooked contrail near the ground, and at the end there was a dog running around.
If you took off your mitten, you could see the skin start to crack, as it was almost around zero humidity.
It was so cold you had to stupid to live up there, but it also was beautiful country, wonderful hunting and fishsing, and very sparse population. But, yeah, it was a bit cold.
Yep. Fairbanks ain’t for the sissies. I went there once.
In summer.
Funny that this comes up, because I remarked today that it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a witch’s tit.
“Cold as a witches tit”…haven’t heard that for awhile.
Good God. It gets cold here in Ottawa… but I’ve never yet had to smear my lower extremities with Vaseline. I’ll give it a try and get back to you…
I’ve never had to…
Oh, yeah, that reminds me: “Colder than a well-digger’s ass in the Yukon.”
“Colder than the balls on a brass monkey.”
Well, had the dog not been so fat it might have been able to come inside when she claims she tried to get it to come in. A border collie that’s 50 pounds overweight?! That’s about double it’s normal size.
Yes. It appears the woman may have been arrested for overfeeding the dog, which is usually considered animal abuse.