Re several recent posts:
We let the Ammonia refrigerant out of an ancient refrigerator - the kind with 'hair curlers' on top - so we could re-use the compressor. It took a good hack with a hatchet to break the copper coils. But what we didn't anticipate, was the ammonia gas vapor cloud killed the beautiful Orange tree we did this under. Aunt never figured out why her favorite backyard tree suddenly died. But she had suspicions because my cousin was always doing stuff like this.
An acquaintance of his (a genuine teen Berkeley radical super-loon) wanted to run an acetylene cylinder into the city gas main to make simultaneous explosions at kitchens all over the neighborhood. We talked him out of it. I think. Or maybe it just didn't work.
Going to visit my cousin was always interesting.
As for dogs and dishwashing that's what we always told first time guests at the remote mining claim. First, everyone throw your paper napkins into the empty serving dishes. We start dishwashing by wiping out the pots with those napkins, so we don't pollute the creek. That was for real. Then: 'Just put your plates on the ground for the dogs, we'll wash them after they're licked clean'.

Got some interesting reactions.

(We didn't really let that happen!)