*in best max bygraves voice*

[Cassandra]

I want to tell you a story!

I read a story once about a guy. He had a young border collie who was very shy, of everything, didn't like mixing at all, very nervous dog.

His solution to all this was to take the dog down the pub. The dog got very drunk, made friends with everyone and never had a problem with nerves or shyness again.

This is a true story btw...wondered what peoples thoughts were?

[Enid]

Just as well it was a border collie and not a toy type- I believe they can't hold their drink well at all!
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[marcella]

wonder if he had a 'hair of the dog' next day to cure his hangover!!!!

[Janice]

i lived in digs for a while with multi pedigree Boxer/ GSD/ Lad. sort of dog who loved whiskey and drunk men. Well she loved men and drink so... She was a rescue dog and her first owner was an elderly widower who took her to the pub with him every day. She could sniff out a pub at 10 miles distance and pull you to it like a demented tractor but an odd drink never seemed to do her any harm so maybe its a good way to socialise your dog. Has Ash visited a pub yet?
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[marcella]

maybe that's why my two are so sociable .............. they sit and watch me guzzle brandy most nights!!!!!

[Enid]

Jodie always has a little of Chris's beer on a Sunday!

She absolutely adores it. Mandy is strictly teetotal though and almost literally turns up her nose!
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[marcella]

Dogs must quite like the taste of beer ........... my friends dog will have a drink if they leave a glass down. She also loves tea!!!!!

[kendal]

my mums dog got drunk once she drank a quarter bottle of wine, she was always a dozy dog. she spent the night staggering about the room.


Gypsy likes tea.
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[shirley c]

Misty my greyhound likes wine and loooves Baileys.
My mum and dad had a pub for years but before that they did relief work down south and in one of the pubs in Waltham Abbey we had a huge rabbit who used to drink buckfast it also used to eat out the dogs bowl with the 'dangerous' dog a Rhodesian Ridgeback, we have a pic of it some where, must go look for it someday

[kendal]

you should, would love to see that.
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[Nicola]

I read a bit in a dog mag a while ago about alcohol and dogs. A small amount of alchohol is enough for a small dog to have fits. It was pretty grim reading actually. I'll rummage through the mags to see if I can find it.

I, personally, wouldn't give my dogs alcohol.

[kendal]

nether would i, it was an accident one minute the glass was full the next it was empty. no one in our house really drinks, and i know about tea being bad for them too.
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[Enid]

[Nicola]

[Cassandra]