ok--who's got a pizza stone?

[Leslie]

and how long does it take to heat up?  I'm thinking that, wrapped in a blanket, it might make a good mini heater for a dog.  Does it get like a million degrees hot or what?

[TerriL]

I have two large round baking stones from Pampered Chef that I absolutely love.  They do get really hot but you could take them out of the oven until they were cool enough to be used as a dachsie -heater.   It's actually a brilliant idea!  When my Toby-Man Angel was so sick I used to heat his blankies in the dryer for him.  The stones would stay warm a lot longer wrapped in the blanket.  Genius!  :thumb:

[Doxherding Karen]

WEENER PIZZA???!???  :meme:

IZ YOU HOOMANS TALKIN' 'BOUT EATIN PUPPERS AGAIN????!????

HAVE YOU NO HOO-MANITY???!???  YOU NEED TO EAT MORE VEGGIES!!!!!

Don't make me come out dere an' hurt you!

Guinness
"I may have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night!"

[Leslie]

I have two large round baking stones from Pampered Chef that I absolutely love.  They do get really hot but you could take them out of the oven until they were cool enough to be used as a dachsie -heater.   It's actually a brilliant idea!  When my Toby-Man Angel was so sick I used to heat his blankies in the dryer for him.  The stones would stay warm a lot longer wrapped in the blanket.  Genius!  :thumb:

well, back in olden times (when my dad was a pup), they would keep lambs warm with bricks heated in the WOOD stove.  Also, newborn babies, too, sometimes he sez.  He's 82, BTW and he was born at home!  (Ya need string, vinegar, a sharp knife...)

[Spanish Teckels]

Brilliant idea.  My grandparents on the farm in Scotland did exactly as your Dad says, using local stone, just make sure the stone is well cooled after being in the oven since they hold the heat really well and can appear cooler to surface touch but on contact still be at a very much higher temperature inside.

Also great and very comfy are wheat or lavender sacks heated in the microwave; they hold the heat for a long time and can be easily moulded around or under the body.  We´ve used them many a time for sore muscles on us and Red and Islay.  Red knows where I keep the lavender sack and cries in front of the draw when he feels he needs to use it....2 minutes microwave and he´s snoozing on it peacefully. 

I use a Miele stone slab in my Miele fan over for making bread and pizzas and use a rectangular stone for pizza on the Weber gas Q-bbq outside and they work brilliantly.  The Q-bbq and stone combo is fantastic and just like using a stone domed pizza oven, gives scrumptious results.  I make Ciabatta once a week and freeze balls of the raw dough at the same time to pull out and defrost in 20 minutes to use for pizza base on the bbq.  This weekend I´m in for making 20kgs of fresh tomato and basil sauce since my basil is rampant on the terrace and plum toms are at their cheapest now.  I freeze the sauce on ice and muffin trays then pop out into freezer bags so I have tom sauce on hand whenever. 

Must go, all of this talk of pizza is making me peckish!

[klsb]

My Gram told me that when she and my Grandpa starting dating his car didnt have a heater, so when he would come pick her up he would have hot bricks for her to put her feet on so they wouldnt get cold.

I just thought that was cute.. hee hee

[Leslie]

Brilliant idea.  My grandparents on the farm in Scotland did exactly as your Dad says, using local stone, just make sure the stone is well cooled after being in the oven since they hold the heat really well and can appear cooler to surface touch but on contact still be at a very much higher temperature inside.

Also great and very comfy are wheat or lavender sacks heated in the microwave; they hold the heat for a long time and can be easily moulded around or under the body. 

good point about the stones...mebbe I have a nice flat rock right out back...

Now, about the wheat sacks, why wouldn't the dog want to EAT them?  They surely must smell just like bread when heated.  (I have a rice sack that I use and don't dare leave it out.)

[Spanish Teckels]

good point about the stones...mebbe I have a nice flat rock right out back...

Now, about the wheat sacks, why wouldn't the dog want to EAT them?  They surely must smell just like bread when heated.  (I have a rice sack that I use and don't dare leave it out.)

Mmmmmm, don´t know about eating them.  They don´t smell of anything much when heated and certainly not like homemade bread! 

I have one just with wheat and one with wheat and lavender and Red hasn´t ever tried to eat either of them.  He´s happy just to lay on them and enjoy the comfort and the heat.  Islay has used them when she´s had sore muscles but doesn´t beg to use them like Red does.  I never even thought about the danger of them being eaten!

Perhaps you could try with your rice sack, perhaps drizzled with a little calming lavender oil, just to see whether t gives relief and isn´t "appetizing"!!

Let me know how you get on.  I think wheat/lavender/rice sacks would be safer than hot stones all in all and more comfortable.

[Marcia from MI]

I've used a two pound package of rice heated in the microwave and wrapped in a towel when the cat was sick.