Is it really dangerous to get a dog drunk?

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First: I have always hated those hippie and frat losers who'd blow weed smoke into the mouth of their pet. I would also sooner beat a human being to death with a tire iron than tap a dog on the head with a newspaper.

That said, I'm wondering why we don't let our dogs drink. I (perhaps negligently) allow my dog to eat 'people food' - hotdogs, cheese, etc - why not have a few drinks with her as well?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

So long as you don't slip roofies in her drink, for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

you're a sick man for even thinking of that joke.

Come to think of it though, she's half pit bull - her temperment is always sweet as pie, but...what if she's an angry drunk?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

you're a sick man for even thinking of that joke.

Dude, YOU'RE the one posting on an internet board about getting dogs drunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

hahahahah touche Ned

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

well, Sadie Mae Glutz just drank a bowl full of gin!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

people food is bad for doggie digestion
come to think of it, it's bad for people digestion too

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh boy I'm in trouble now. Lady Jessica came home and freaked out on me big time for sharing gin with the dog. Apparently alcohol can kill a dog. I don't know, I remember hearing something a few years ago about feeding dogs brandy to help them sleep. In any event, I'm in the midst of a domestic spat over this.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

stop typing, start apologizing

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm beginning to think Roger is as made-up as Aja and Anna Rose.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dangerous to you or to the dog?

― Skottie, Monday, 12 April 2004 04:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Alcohol can kill anything if you give it enough.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 12 April 2004 04:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

we'll just see about that, Dan

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 04:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

and don't think the cruelty of caling your dog Sadie Mae Glutz has gone unnoticed either.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

anybody else know of a dog that just LOVES beer? we have to put my friends dog in 'jail' everytime beer is being drunk because he'll sneak a lick off your bottle in the blink of an eye.
in college, my friend got his puppy drunk and I am sure that's a big no-no since he was still developing. Same thing with getting pets high: I think it's okay in moderation so long as he/she is fully grown.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Let me rephrase that: I think getting them high when they're an adult is okay, but I'm not sure about getting them piss-faced. Though, why would you want to waste beer on your pets? (that's the beauty of getting them high, as all they need is your exhales)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

Or just get catnip.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

My ex-dog Sam would oft be found with his nose in a pint when I had friends round to visit. It was funny if the owner of the drink didn't notice and carried on drinking as if a slabbery pooch hadn't enjoyed the first third of their glass. I miss Sam, he now stays with my ex-in laws and I always wonder if they're treating him right. In fact, I'm not going to think about this right now 'cause I'll cry.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

before it's picked and crushed up, catnip looks an awful lot like marijuana. coincidence?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

My late dog liked the one time I gave her a blowback, but I was having a smoke on my mom's back steps and she wouldn't leave me alone until she got her own puff. She just looked like she was having deep thoughts for an hour, but no munchies afterward. That's poodles for you. She hated beer - my sister did try to feed it to her many times but the dog just gave her dirty looks each time.

This was a smoke of the Northern Lights my mother scored off the Native house painters to give to my aunt for chemo nausea, but my aunt refused to smoke it. I returned home for the funeral etc. and my mom just gave me my aunt's keys and said 'your inheritance is in the bathroom cupboard'. I cannot believe my mom was my hookup!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

There's a remote Scottish hotel called the Doune Braes, in Carloway, which has a dog as a regular in its bar. It will wander round everyone in the place carrying a clean ashtray in its mouth, expecting you to pour a bit of beer in to the ashtray for it.

(well, it did every time I visited it, in the late 90s)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

My dog loved beer. If we had people over on the deck and glasses were left on the ground he would just help himself. He loved it. He was a Schnauzer. Once we got fed up with him slobbering in our glasses, and put some in his water bowl. About a half bottle, which we (foolishly) judged would be a safe amount. He was most definitely drunk. He stumbled around a bit, fell coming down the deck steps, and then starting doing silly stuff like chasing nothing and then biting the ground and eating grass, which he seemed to really like. Then he puked and passed out. He had a very bad hangover later and was grumpy. Didn't stop him from going for beer again in the future, though. Sounds a lot like me there, actually.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

PS the dog lived a long and healthy life to about 15 (which is quite old for Schnauzers), so his semi-regular beer consumption didn't seem to hurt him too badly. I wouldn't recommend hard liquor, though.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

For the answer to your question, I suggest a viewing of the movie Strange Brew.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

just don't let the dog drive, or handle firearms.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

every dog i've had has loved beer and wine. none of them were ever given more than a few teaspoons, though. aside from the fact that it can be harmful, it also wreaks havoc on their bladders.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

We used to give my friend's dog little bits of wine-cooler, but it hated beer and we wouldn't give it anything harder. It got super-horny after a couple of sips and started humping anything in sight.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

One of my sister's two cats liked beer. If I had a longneck over at her place I'd poor some in the cap every time. She'd come looking for it after awhile.

The other one had no interest though.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

The dog we had when we were kids used to like beer, but we never got it drunk. It lived for a long time, so I suppose no harm done.

Presumably the main danger in getting yer dog rat-arsed is proportional to the size of the creature. I mean pissed great dane = potential carnage if it brings out the hooligan in it. pissed miniature poodle = probably it will just piss and throw up all over the place.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

When my dog was a puppy, and I was smack in the middle of an Unfortunate Hippie Phase, I took her to a friend's house. The second she walked in the door, she started going nuts and running around and sniffing everywhere, and she ran straight up the stairs and into a corner bedroom and dug under the bed for a little glass jar full of weed, and nudged it out with her nose and started pawing at it like crazy. She totally, totally wanted it, and it was weird. I've never given her beer, though.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

Wow. I went searching for a thread about dog names and found this instead. How did all of this turn out, Roger?

And what should I call my new Great Dane?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Camilla Parker-Bowles.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

That one has already been vetoed by my wife, actually.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

Frank

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

On the dog/drink issue - there is the thorny problem of creating an alcohol-dependent mutt who starts howling and whining and pissing himself in eagerness every time it smells the stuff. Most mammals love the fermented potations all too well.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sexually Frustrated Chimpanzee Smokes Cigarettes

In case you had any doubts about how closely related we are to the chimps: this one smokes because she's horny.

Feili, a female chimp in the city of Zhengzhou in the central province of Henan, picked up her nasty habits by imitating visitors who behaved "improperly" around her, a Xinhua newspaper quoted zoo director Liu Bing as saying.

But, Liu said, the root cause of Feili's transformation from a "gentle girl" into a "shrew" lay with the inability to find her a satisfactory mate.

A male chimpanzee at the zoo has failed to live up to Feili's sexual demands, and she has snubbed other potential suitors.

Zoo officials said Feili was not addicted to nicotine, but the chimp has also demonstrated clever – if not desperate – behaviour to score a smoke.

"The chimp is spitting at tourists and smoking," Xinhua quoted a boy visiting the zoo. "Just now a tourist threw a cigarette butt to just outside the cage, she tried to get the butt with a stick."

― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Let's get the pitbulls drunk!

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

THAT'S GREAT IDEA!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

Aw, just take them bowling instead.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Pleasant - it was a one time deal, and she was fine.

Interesting that this thread was revived today of all days, though, as Sadie Mae had a little accident this morning. The squeemish among you may want to skip this one.

I'm preparing for this big trip, so I'm outside working on the ol' van. My coolant tested badly, and I don't wanna take any chances, but i don't want to deal with the hassle of completely draining the radiator, either, so I use an old trick and suction a large portion of it out with a turkey baster and shoot it into a nearby oil pan and then put new coolant in.

I guess you see where this is going.

Sadie, stupid enough without factoring in colorblindness, apparently took a big sip, because a few minutes later my wife and i notice her hurling up what looks like a mix of snot and bile. It's immediately clear that it's the antifreeze. I'm already looking for the shovel at this point.

She's been fine all day, though, so I guess she'll live. I think she puked it all up in time. But what a dumb ass dog.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Good thing that you were using Seagram's Antifreeze.

(Glad that your dog's doing okay.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Antifreeze has a sweet taste and dogs, cats, etc. like the stuff - at least while it's going down. My dog, Sadie, (there's a coincidence) drank the stuff once and we got her to the vet just in the nick of time.

I used to know a guy who's cat would jump from the floor to the top of the fridge to snag an unlit joint as a trick. Like a Marlboro wouldn't do.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

odd thread

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:50 (8 months ago) Permalink

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