Althouse: "Vets worried by rising numbers of drunk pets as more owners leaving leftover tipples around the house."

December 5, 2016

"Vets worried by rising numbers of drunk pets as more owners leaving leftover tipples around the house."

That's a headline that Meade read out loud to me. Instead of asking him to send me the link, I googled "drunk pets," and — in addition to the link to the article — I got lots of video, supposedly hilarious, of drunk pets.

The article begins with warning decent people about the problem of dogs and cats sniffing out and lapping up what's left lying around in the dirty glasses you weren't careful enough about, but stuck in the middle is an acknowledgment of the truly awful people who are getting their pets drunk and making these videos.

11 comments:

bagoh20 said...: Completely inexcusable!

Leaving a drink unfinished. Who does that? Were you born in a cave?; 12/5/16, 7:19 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Apparently, some people get so drunk they forget to finish their drink.

Or, really, more likely, they forget where they put it.; 12/5/16, 7:42 AM
tcrosse said...: My dog, who is happy to drink from the toilet, does not like Scotch, which my wife thinks is a drink fit only for a dog.; 12/5/16, 7:55 AM
great Unknown said...: Killjoys. What's wrong with pets getting drunk as long as you give them the car keys?

Actually, in the wild many animals - even insects - seek out alcohol as a medicament.; 12/5/16, 8:08 AM
great Unknown said...: That was supposed to be "don't give them the car keys. But then, I already had my morning medicament.; 12/5/16, 8:09 AM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: A seventies memory: a friend and I were out with his dig and found the remains of six pack abandoned likely by some high school students. We poured the 4 beers into a pothole and his dog drank it, then peed on an electric fence (the dog, that is). That sobered the dog up.; 12/5/16, 9:03 AM
JAORE said...: I don't drink and my wife does not leave her drinks sitting out. But I'm going to check the cork screw for bite marks. That may be the only rational explanation for the antics of our newest pooch.; 12/5/16, 9:12 AM
Big Mike said...: Back in the 80's we lived next door to an elderly couple with a peach tree in their back yard. The couple had stopped harvesting the fruit so it would fall off the tree and rot -- and ferment -- on the ground. So each fall we'd have drunken squirrels running around their yard and ours.; 12/5/16, 9:21 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Okay, I'll go ahead and ask the question everyone is thinking:

Just how much can you let your pet drink before they are too drunk to legally give consent?

( We wouldn't want to cross any lines here... ); 12/5/16, 9:34 AM
mikee said...: My four year old son once got his hands on my wife's strawberry daiquiri and took a big swallow before we noticed. There is nothing on earth sillier than an angry drunk four year old. All full of emotions but with no coordination, and in a size that makes him easy to handle.

OK, maybe sillier was a cat so high on pot smoke it could not walk straight, which I saw once in a journalism student's apartment during my undergrad years. The cat was spun around on a barstool while smoke was blown at him by the pothead journalist-to-be. Then the stool was stopped suddenly, the cat flew off, and an amazingly nonlinear path was described around the living room furniture by the cat as it rebounded off the walls, chairs, floor and lamps.

As to drunk animals, blue jays love the Firethorn (Pyracanthus) berries that ferment overwinter here in Texas, and after injesting a few the birds will try to fly while on their backs in the dirt, flapping like crazy.; 12/5/16, 9:41 PM
Rusty said...: My dog is a teetotaler.
I do, however, want to know where the hell she gets her killer weed.; 12/6/16, 6:09 AM