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Living in the country we always had lots of red hounds around. Their big long thin-skin ears would get covered in ticks & we constantly had to pull them off. One of my grandpa's brothers who lived nearby would give each of his hounds a bowl of beer to drink & after it took effect he would use pliers to pull off the ticks & drop them into a coffeecan filled with kerosene to kill them.I don't much like wasting whiskey on the dogs, but the only time in my life I've ever been jealous of a big ole Hereford bull was watching him have a case of Bud poured down his throat to keep him calm for showing at the Illinois State Fair.
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