In article
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Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote:

In article ,
Pat Meadows wrote:

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:56:54 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in
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Our 150# black Newfoundland, Natasha (RIP) could smell bone meal a
mile away and dug quite a few pits as a youngster. Fortunately she
outgrew the habit after she was around two years old. I used to have
to hose her off with the garden hose--- what a mess LOL.

Interesting. But I wonder if it's still a problem? I guess that
incident was around 7 years ago? I picked up a package of bone meal for
my mom recently and it said some fancy smancy stuff about a "special
steam purification process", so I wonder if that got rid of whatever
attracts animals, and if something similar could be done with home-made
bone meal etc.


Being the paranoid person that I am, I wouldn't use bone
meal in the garden because of BSE (mad cow disease). One
case of it was recently reported in Canada.

I just wouldn't want to be spreading bone meal around my
place, and certainly not in the garden with the edibles.

Pat



I wondered about that too. I don't think they've found anything that
kills prions yet.

The steam sterilization process will *not* kill BSE prions. (I'm a beef
cattle rancher, and have been playing real close attention to the whole
BSE deal.)

Jan