Drunk Dog

[Bird]

I had something new happen today. I was in here on the computer when my wife came rushing in all excited and worried to tell me something was wrong with Buster (the rat terror we rescued from the animal shelter a year or so ago - and I know some folks spell it differently but that's 'cause they don't know Buster)./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif He had been outside and she let him back in and he was staggering around, fallling down, running into furniture, etc. She thought he must be bad sick or injured and that we ought to take him to the vet. I told her he just acted like he was drunk, so I went outside and found a beer can he had brought into the yard. He almost daily picks up beer cans from the borrow ditch, brings them into the yard, and chews them up. I don't know how he can chew up an aluminum can without cutting his mouth but he does. Apparently he found one that wasn't empty. He eventually vomited, slept it off, and in about 4 hours was back to normal./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[BobT]

Thanks for the good hardy-har-har Bird!

A dog has so little body mass compared to a human, that a single can, or even part of a can, could get them pretty looped.

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

 

[Boondox]

Dogs and beer seem to go together. Tetley, my 108# golden retriever lap dog, learned to like beer up at deer camp last year. The hunters taught him to pick up bottles between his teeth and tilt his head back to guzzle. Now, my evening beer is unsafe if set down.

Pete

 

[Bird]

I don't know which was worse; the drunk dog or the panicked wife./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Buster only weighs 18 pounds, so I'm sure it didn't take much to get him drunk.

Bird

 

[Harv]

Thanks for sharing that one, Bird! You made my day. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

The behavior you describe sounds similar to one of my cats on occasion. She seem to like my swivel office chair -- the one I spend most of the day sitting in. Whenever I take a break, for lunch or whatever, I almost always come back and find her snuggled up as if it was her chair to begin with.

In an attempt to discourage this behavior, rather than just shooshing her off, I employ the swivel feature of the chair until I have it up roughly to PTO speed. I know when she's had enough 'cuz I can see when she has all 20 toenails firmly embedded in the seat and/or back of the cushions. At that point I stop, pry her off and set her on the floor, aimed at the door. Her instinct is to run, but of course she can't seem to set a proper course, and staggers crab-like into the nearest solid object, rebounds and falls over. In the true nature of a cat, she then thinks, "screw it" and takes her nap right where she is.

The attached picture is immediately after a relatively low-rpm journey. She wants to jump off, but can't quite figure out which way is down.

Has this discouraged her? Not one bit. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

And in case you can't tell, I'm a long-standing dog person. It's just that when I got married, my wife said she was allergic, and, well ... that's another story. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Tell the cat story to Buster (when he's sober). I'm sure he'll appreciatiate it. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Harv, sounds like Evie likes to get dizzy or drunk./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif We don't have a cat; that's one my wife's phobias. She's terrified of them, for reasons unknown. Our eldest daughter, when she was 11 years old, got a black and white kitten, and my wife got used to it. It grew into a very large tomcat and everything was fine until we moved into a new house, and one dark night, my wife got up to go to the bathroom without turning on a light, and I guess the cat was getting a drink out of the toilet, because my wife sat down on the cat. There was an awful lot of activity in that bathroom for awhile. That was 24 years ago, and we haven't slept in a dark house since./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

At least your cat just wants your chair when you're not in it. Buster thinks he HAS to be in my recliner, but only if I'm in it, too./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird

 

[Thomas]

Bird,
I think a couple of us have been there before like Buster. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif Sure hope he pleasant w/a hang over. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Corm]

Between Bird and Harv, my sides are sore from laughing!! Thanks fellas!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[putty340]

Both stories are hilarious, I had to show my wife.This is good stuff. Bird, I would recommend a 12 step program for Buster, he has probably had a problem long before you " discovered" it, have you tried looking in between the coushions for his stash. Harv ,your cat is in a little more trouble than you may think, he has finally sucked you in to his secret fettish with the dryer. ///WARNING///First the chair, than once the thrill is gone he will attempt the dryer-be on the lookout!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Bird, if you are going to tell funny stories I wish you would post a disclaimer. I got through the dog story ok, but I am going to have to windex off my monitor after the cat story. I am sure glad I did not have a mouth full of soda pop or the damage could have been much worse.