It’s not drinking alone if your dog/cat is home. We’ve all seen the mugs, the glasses, pillows, and T-shirts. For many people, during Covid, their four-legged companions have become their only drinking buddies. While moderate alcohol consumption may be safe for humans, it is not for pets.
I have no patience for people who think it’s amusing to get their pets drunk, but I also think it’s rude not to share. Get your pooch pals some dog safe beer.
Or a nice wine for your feline friends. Maybe they’ll buy the next round.
What are you and your pets drinking tonight?
I have become quite the water connoisseur over the years. I rarely drink anything else, other than juice or milk. If I’m feeling fancy, I might splurge on some San Pellegrino.
We are convinced that Butcher Dog is actually part camel. She almost never drinks water from her bowl. The only times I’ve seen her do it is if it’s super hot outside and we just ran her for 20 minutes. Then, she’ll take a few laps out of the bowl and be done with it. Yet, somehow, she still pees. We decided to just put some water in with her food so we know she’s getting some twice a day.
That’s odd. My dog will go half the day with no water but when she does drink she’ll empty the whole bowl. But as long as she’s healthy I guess it doesn’t matter.
my cats are just drinking water today
not from their bowl of course…. oh no… only water from glasses currently in use by humans will do
seriously….do not take your eyes of your glass around here….for a cat will be in it if you do
same goes for cups of tea or milk
My sainted corgi was like that, she wanted whatever we had. And if you didn’t give it to her she’d knock your cup/glass/bottle over to get it!
yep…pretty much…all 3 of mine will ninja anything they can get…
but chewy is the worst… as she will also try begging…and shes got the huge eyed sad beggy paw down to an art
I’m a sucker for the huge eyed sad beggy paw,lol.
One of my cats only drinks from the aquariums. I have no idea how many baby guppies she may have consumed. Perhaps hundreds.
What if you put a guppy in a bowl? Would she drink from it then?
I use a quart size canning jar with a lid for my water glass because one of my cats is an asshole and will try to get into any open cup.
My daughter had to get cups with lids because of her cat too. Kitty doesn’t want to drink her stuff, just spill it, lol.
I was eating for this! I will repeat a recipe I found about 2 weeks ago, to use up random half-bottles of liquor: The Boulevardier.
3 parts rye
2 parts Campari
2 parts sweet vermouth
Pour into a rocks glass filled with ice and stir. Delicious. If you do this with gin, it’s a Negroni, which is far more common, and you throw in a piece of orange peel.
Waiting for this, not eating for this…This spellcheck.
I’ve had it made with bourbon and it is delicious. Hmm, I was going to just have bourbon tonight but I might have to go this direction instead.
lol…
I do have to admit to being one of those people who finds intoxicated animals amusing…
I like watching cats get blissed out on nip, and there are very funny videos of animals drunk on fermented fruit. I used to live near a college where ducks would get mastered on rotting sums every year and they honestly seemed to enjoy it. I’m uncomfortable with people getting there pets drunk or high though.
I’ve often wondered why dogs are reflexively considered male and cats female. I’ve also long wondered why beer is considered a guy’s drink and wine is for women. There’s a term for this in linguistics, where something is assigned to a sex somewhat randomly, like pink is for girls and blue is for boys. We see this combined in the pet-friendly beer and wine brands above. There’s another term for when names cross from one gender to another. Leslie, for example, used to be a man’s name (Leslie Howard, Leslie Nielsen). Morgan (Morgan Freeman.). Evelyn (Evelyn Waugh.) Carroll (Carroll O’Connor.)
There’s another interesting phenomenon where “girl’s names” never become popular as “boy’s names”, and once a boy’s name transitions people stop using it for male babies. We can all guess why.
Wasn’t Ashley a boy’s name originally? At least it was in Gone With the Wind. But names being gender neutral in South is oddly common for a region that is so invested in heteronormativity. I once knew a guy named Cora after his aunt. They don’t bat an eye at that sort of thing here but God help you if you are nonbinary or in a same sex marriage. I will never understand some people.
did someone say ashley?
One of my dogs loves beer. I never give him more than an ounce or so which I just pour on the floor. A past dog would lick a little beer off the floor and usually sneeze after. It was amusing.
I’m sure a taste doesn’t hurt. The corgi I mentioned above did her best to get any beverages we had, and sometimes managed to get some. She’d sneeze too.
My dog loved beer, we didn’t give it to him but if you spilled he wad on it. He would sneeze if it was hoppy. When we first got him I left a glass of wine on the coffee table & walked away for a moment. When I came back he was on the table drinking the wine w/ out breaking my expensive wine glass! That’s when I knew he was MY dog. Cheers to Jake, I miss you buddy!
Lol, he was a very genteel boy.