I assume (hope) this is some kind of parody?
After any adventure I like to enjoy a cold one, and I’m stoked to be partnering with @BuschBeer to tell you about #BuschDogBrew!
Now your pup can enjoy a beer after a day on the trail or on the lake. It’s made with simple ingredients, and your dog will love it. #BuschPartner pic.twitter.com/QrrgCHOBaH— john (@johncwingfield) November 18, 2020
Sometimes when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss begs for treats…
(??: Reddit user alex_square6) pic.twitter.com/KuBqAyCeKg
— Clare Logan ?? (@withchillies) October 14, 2020
This is The Pack, an epic adventure competition featuring twelve teams of dogs and their humans. Only one can win, but spoiler alert: they’re all good dogs. Tune in November 20th on @PrimeVideo #ad pic.twitter.com/PWWB9yTapl
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) November 9, 2020
SOUND UP ???? pic.twitter.com/9O43bfCyJO
— Jay Arnold ?? (@jadedcreative) October 16, 2020
JaneE
Apparently the “dog beer” is really just broth with a good publicist.
Catherine D.
oh, I’d heard about The Pack on a podcast.
Dorothy A. Winsor
A cousin once poured beer in our dog’s water dish. The dog sniffed it and then turned away to look at us reproachfully.
Dan B
I await the Cat Adventure. Comedy and tragedy, plus lots of minimalism, ie. sleeping.
FYI: I had a cat that commuted to work with me for a couple years. She sat in the back window of my Tercel wagon and stared down the drivers behind us.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My first cocker spaniel LOVED beer. First house after the dorms, she would intentionally knock over beer bottles just so she could drink them.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: Did it affect her?
Yutsano
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @WaterGirl: Dogs usually don’t have much affinity for alcoholic beverages. Notable exceptions noted.
But if you give a horse a beer…you better have more. They seem to love the stuff.
raven
@Dan B: I knew the people who owned Morris the Cat. Leave it at “that cat was trippin”.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
A puppydog belonging to one of the group of us who lived in very rural PA for a time liked beer so much he could sniff it out when the can was sealed, then proceed to bite through the can to get at it.
raven
Best sort of cocker bud light ad.
I hope ya like jammin too!
O. Felix Culpa
@raven: Most excellent.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Oh yes, there are beer hounds among us. One suspects certain German breeds especially (our GSP has not learned the taste because I’m afraid he’d love it and then pester us endlessly).
Feathers
That Busch dog beer ad looks like the creepiest rom-com ever. Or maybe a movie where a dude’s brother or best friend turned into a dog.
I guess it’s the way it just narratively swaps out a person for a dog. Often the best solution in real life, however.
trollhattan
@Yutsano:
Heh. Since it starts off as grain I guess horses are smart enough to recognize that. And how do you say no to a one-ton critter?
NotMax
!) How to make a dog beer.
2) Brew pooches.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: At my 21st birthday party – party started at noon, outdoors in the empty field next to our house – someone found me at about 1 or 2 o’clock and told me Mellon had been over served.
I found her, poor thing, I had to hold her head up so she could drink from the water bowl, and then I put her down for a nap. When she woke up, she was back at it again.
I am horrified thinking about that now, but in my experience, when you’re 21, you’re not very smart.
WaterGirl
@raven: That was great!
raven
@WaterGirl: My 21st birthday I got slammed on Tequila at the Esquire and drove drunk to our house on Oregon. The cops followed me and rousted me in the driveway. They let me go.
WaterGirl
@raven: At that time, “don’t drink and drive” wasn’t a thing. I don’t think that happened until later than that.
We used to drive home from drinking all the time. Just a few years later, all that had changed.
Wapiti
@Yutsano: Silage is fermented; I’d expect both cattle and horses are good at recognizing such foods.
raven
@WaterGirl: Ever go to the Turtle Races at the Possum Trot?
Doc Sardonic
When I was in high school I had a Bassett hound that loooooved beer. The dog could out drink a lot of humans. We had a pool party at one of my relatives and people would leave their beer cans on the sidewalk next to the pool. Folks finally decided that was not a good idea as Party Boy would wander up, knock over a beer and make it disappear. Once he got about 4 in him somebody’s poodle came into the pool area and like any other male 3 sheets and a lampshade in at the office Christmas party, he decided he was get some. He started chasing the poodle around the pool and as the poodle had much longer legs she was out pacing him, so he decided he was gonna take a shortcut across the corner of the shallow end, hit the water, swam to the steps, climbed out of the pool, shook himself and knocked over another beer, drank it and proceeded to take a nap.
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
In the early days of TV (1950s), there was a delightful sitcom called Topper, based on a series of ‘30s screwball comedies. Premise was that a zany young married couple are killed in an avalanche, along with the St Bernard that tried to rescue them. All three spirits return to haunt a prim, stuffy man named Cosmo Topper. Neil, the St Bernard, is portrayed as alcoholic, and just about every episode had him lapping up ghostly martinis from a phantom bowl, to Topper’s befuddlement.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Leo G Carroll.
germy
These dogs:
The Moar You Know
My dog LOVES beer. LOVES it. Now, dogs don’t have very good livers or kidneys, so I imagine that this “beer” is non-alcoholic. I’d check that before giving it to the dog. Otherwise, mine will get about two-four ounces of regular beer and no more, even though he will drink more. He’d drink enough to kill himself if I let him.
What you REALLY don’t want to do is let your dog get into wine (grape products kill dogs) or hard liquor. Mine has an affinity for both, so we have to keep him under control if there is booze around.
I think my dog might be an alcoholic. But his intake is something I have absolute control over.
WaterGirl
@raven: No, I didn’t. Not sure I even heard about them.
germy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-J0xPfbRr0
My favorite St. Bernard, the one who rescued Yosemite Sam from an avalanche.
trollhattan
It’s not just dogs that indulge. I can recall more than one housecat “back in the day” that would come running when their hoomans fired up the bong, demanding to have smoke blown at their little cat face. Never understood how they made the connection.
WaterGirl
@germy: That’s great!
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
That’s the one! I used to love that program as a kid.
catclub
@germy: no harm no foul
Suzanne
My Luna is an everything-aholic, and as a result, we are always trying to watch her weight. So no beer.
Also, we live in PA now, and the liquor laws in this state are fucking ridiculous and booze is overpriced so the state can collect taxes on it. So I am not wasting beer on my dog.
It is a cold rainy day indoors, so we watched “HAMILTON”. Fuck, it is so good. And it is so tied up with the greatness of the Obamas in my mind. I feel like art of the Trump era has mostly been trash; hell, even the Kardashians are getting canceled. Maybe I just don’t have perspective on it yet. I wonder what the art of the Biden/post-pandemic era will be like.
raven
@WaterGirl: They moved it from the Possum Trot after I left but, damn, we’d party all day and most of the night a drive home!
MagdaInBlack
@trollhattan: Oh yes, I had one who always came to sit by me and get a contact high. We called her Stoner Kitty =-)
raven
The races started at The Possum Trot, but outgrew that site. They then moved to the Moose Lodge and Vermilion County Fairgrounds, before landing at the K of C. They also were conducted at the Gao Grotto. The races have been at the Knights of Columbus for at least 16 years.
WaterGirl
@raven: Just reading about that is bittersweet.
The Moar You Know
@Doc Sardonic: I should probably never admit this, but the same thing has happened to me (in place of the bassett) pretty much step by step, including the pool detour and “nap”.
Frank Wilhoit
@SiubhanDuinne: The author of the original stories. A narrow style but pretty nearly unsurpassed at building cumulative, spiralling slapstick. The adaptations are lobotomized beyond recognition.
raven
@WaterGirl: God it was fun. The year I broke my back I went in my full body cast. A druken country lady thought I was mocking the turtles and when she realized I’d been injured she about expired apologizing.
O. Felix Culpa
@SiubhanDuinne: Me too.
The Moar You Know
@The Moar You Know: Huh, it’s bone broth. I’m surprised, being that it’s Busch. Most dogs like actual beer, but hey, ALL dogs like meat products. Better for them too.
raven
@The Moar You Know: There was a basset named Colonel Riggs in Champaign. These were the days of huge parties with tons of dogs and Riggs would get all the other dogs chasing him but he could cut the corners so tight they could never catch him!
Barbara
@trollhattan: While my husband and son went scuba diving I sat at a beachside cafe and watched birds peck at the remains of cocktails left on tables. This was in the Caribbean, but apparently it happens in nature too, when rotting fruit ferments naturally.
germy
@Barbara:
I’ve read about elephants going on drunken rampages.
topclimber
My adult daughter is on self-quarantine in her tiny upstairs room. I hope the Pack is something we can watch together on separate screens while texting comments.
I have held off on episode 1 until she joins me and the Ms. The good news is we can marathon it in a day or two, at which point her test results should be back, hopefully negative.
She is a super extrovert, though more so with dogs than people. Now a cat lover as well because of lifestyle constraints. But her heart is big enough to love almost all mammals. She even lacks my perhaps male-instinctive fear of ferrets.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: My cocker liked beer, but only once it had gone flat.
Suzanne
On a booze-related note, I have a question. I have a sealed bottle of Dewar’s that was in my grandfather’s collection when he died. He died in 1997, but the bottle has a label over the bottlecap that reads “NY-I-68”. Never opened. Is it OK to drink? Is it worth any money?
Zelma
Re drunken pets, we had a parakeet who used to perch on my father’s hand and drink his Manhattan. He would then go on a talking jag until he sobered up. Never saw a bird who so enjoyed cocktail hour.
hells littlest angel
The Busch Brew ad needs some bitches in bikinis.
JPL
Don’t let your dogs drink and drive.. just sayin
The Moar You Know
@raven: It’s that low center of gravity. Corgis and dachshunds as well. If it’s not a straight line race, they’ll win.
And none of the three to be fucked with, serious hunting dogs. All of ’em.
hells littlest angel
@Suzanne: Pretty sure alcohol doesn’t go bad. Doubt if it’s worth money — whiskey doesn’t age in the bottle — but you never know what sort of crackpot collectors are out there.
Jager
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Three German Shepherds ago, I took my boy Straka into a dog-friendly bar on Clematis Street in West Palm. I stood at the bar and he stood up with his paws on the bar. The bartenders asked me what I wanted, I told him, then he asked, “What about your buddy?” I said bring him a Becks, the guy brought a Becks and a bowl. I poured and put the bowl on the floor and Straka enjoyed it, the only dog I’ve ever had who liked beer. This was before Beck’s started being brewed in St Louis by Bud. I like to think Straka would turn his nose up at it now. He was an excellent boy.
NotMax
@JPL
Gasoline and alcohol don’t mix.
Drink one or the other.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: @hells littlest angel: Mostly what HLA said. The scotch will not change for better or worse. It is basically inert once bottled. It might have some value if there is some explanation behind the date or if you find a specialty collector. Otherwise, it’s basically just another bottle of okay booze.
Suzanne
@hells littlest angel: We just had a bit of fun thinking about how many miles this bottle has traveled during its time with my family. I’m not likely to ever drink it, I only grabbed it when he died because it seemed wasteful to throw away an unopened bottle. He wasn’t a big boozer, either.
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
It’s stable as long as the cap is intact. Open on a special occasion?
Bet it’s a fifth and not 750ml.
persistentillusion
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen robins get smashed on fermented juniper berries. They stagger around in circles, unable to fly for about 15 minutes.
The Moar You Know
@Suzanne:
Sounds like a NY state tax stamp. From 1968. Now, Dewar’s is bar scotch, its not connoisseur-grade stuff by any means, but the age might make it worth SOMETHING to some hipster who wants some real midcentury modern Mad Men booze.You’re not going to buy your next house off it, I don’t think. Look on eBay.As long as it hasn’t been left out in the sun (best is left in a cabinet) it should be fine to drink. If it tastes weird, toss it is my rule for booze
ETA (far more accurate as it’s not me guessing):
cain
@trollhattan:
Those who follow my twitter will be familiar with this but I have a picture of my cat on my flower pot and make several jokes about him on pot. :-)
Suzanne
@trollhattan: It is “4/5 quart”.
Also from his collection, I have a bottle of the private label scotch from the House of Commons. Unopened. That one stays unopened.
cain
@Suzanne:
yeah the liquor laws in PA is definitely ridiculous – I think we could continue to be popular in PA if we started dismantling these Puritan based laws. Good grief.
trollhattan
@Jager:
German shepherds seem to be making a comeback–I see a lot in our town lately. Noble critters, and smart.
My old man had them but apparently I was very allergic as a wee lad so he had to give away our last one.
hells littlest angel
@Suzanne: A fifth is one-fifth of a gallon.
Jager
@raven: The summer I turned 21, my girlfriend called and told me she “thought” she was pregnant. I was working on construction that college summer, I went to my rat’s ass apartment, got cleaned up, and went to a quiet bar owned by a friend of my dad. I had known Kenny since I could walk, I had a couple of beers, told Kenny about my little problem. He said, “A man’s problem calls for a man’s drink” and started pouring Jack Daniels. I woke up the next morning on the floor by my bed, when I looked out the window my car was parked with the driver’s door hanging open. I have no idea how the hell I drove home. And no she wasn’t pregnant.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Interesting.
trollhattan
Catholics of a certain stripe, being “helpful.”
You know what is not moral? Encouraging people to die when there is an option.
Suzanne
@hells littlest angel: I understand. I thought it was charming the way it was labeled.
raven
@Jager: Nice!
MC
Can anyone recommend a good place to get a cat collar online? It’s time for my 1.75 year old boy to start wearing one.
Van Buren
@Yutsano: When I first got married, we lived in an apartment downstairs from my brother in law. One day, while wife and I were out bike riding, BIL sent his 6 year old daughter down to our place with 2 Pina Coladas. Girl dutifully put them on kitchen table. We returned to a very lit Bichon who had hopped up on a chair, then on the table, and drank down as far as her tongue could reach.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Life was sunnier when our choices were a pint, a fifth, a half gallon or a gallon.
;)
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
House of Commons private label sounds darn unique–I’d keep it for the novelty value.
Binging “The Crown” I’m stricken by how nearly everybody’s day incorporates cigarettes and whiskey, both of which are made available at all times.
Brachiator
@Suzanne:
Years ago, a former boss discovered a case of Prohibition era Scotch in the attic of his home. He bought the house from his wife’s family and her grandfather may have stashed the booze away. I think some of it was drinkable.
Suzanne
@cain: I really miss buying booze at Costco and BevMo.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne:
I am so looking forward to rewatching Hamilton in the post-Trump era.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MC: We use chewy.com for all things pet-related.
Jager
@trollhattan: I fell in love with them when I was 6 years old, my grandparents had one on the farm, If Dukey was with me, they’d let me roam the countryside. Our latest (11 years old) is snoring beside me at the moment. He hates beer.
Suzanne
@trollhattan: It is totally unique, and it also has a story. The other cool artifact that is part of that same story is a brass ram that was a tap handle (I think), which the security team at the House of Commons had set in resin and gave as a gift to my grandfather. That thing weighs a significant amount and has pride of place on top of my piano.
WereBear
@MC: make sure it’s a breakaway version
SiubhanDuinne
@O. Felix Culpa:
I wanted to be Anne Jeffreys, and I wanted to marry Robert Sterling. SWOOOOON!
gbbalto
@Suzanne: It doesn’t age after bottling but should have kept. Drink it whenever you feel like it.
JMG
I was just a little kid, but I loved Topper on TV.
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
Ooh, tap handle it may be. There was a historic Ram Brewery–just checked and it closed in 2006. Might be one of theirs.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
One of the most fascinating animal videos I’ve seen recently was the school of adolescent dolphins passing around a puffer fish because apparently small doses of the poison makes them high.
So no, humans did not invent intoxication.
SiubhanDuinne
@Frank Wilhoit:
I’ve known about Thorne Smith all my life, but never read any of his books.
This, from your Wikipedia link, made me laugh:
Aleta
After the beer hike, sharing a nice plate of bolognese.
J R in WV
@Suzanne:
Re: Dewars:
Almost certainly safe to drink, though can’t say if it will be any better than a bottle of Dewars from the local liquor store.
Also can’t guess if a collector would pay extra for it. Some older beverages are collectable.
I’ve decided I prefer bourbon to scotch. Or Irish…
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Like this?
https://youtu.be/jcZUPDMXzJ8
Jager
@raven: My first legal drink the summer I turned 21 was in a bar in Denver’s “21st Birthday Special” a flaming Singapore Sling, haven’t had one since. My wild ass roommate Tom got stopped for speeding, the young state trooper asked him if he was drinking after noticing a bottle of vodka on the seat of his 65 Impala convertible and his girlfriend drinking out of a bottle of orange pop. Tom fessed up and did a routine on the cop about being in ROTC and if he got a DUI he’d get kicked out, etc. The cop had been in the Army and sympathized with Tom and had him pour the vodka out and let him go. Tom’s GF had a pint in her purse and saved the evening. I’m lucky I survived that summer.
Mike in NC
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: We just started to use Chewy since our vet no longer allows walk-in traffic. Even to buy cat food we’d need an appointment. So they mailed us a prescription and the customer service person who assisted me with the order was super helpful in placing the order. We’ll use Chewy a lot more going forward.
Suzanne
@J R in WV: Yeah, I like bourbon, too. I’m not fancy, though…. I don’t want to get spendy! And booze in this state is more than I am used to paying. I have joked to Mr. Suzanne that when we can cross state lines again, I am going to drive to Rochester and stock up at their Costco.
trollhattan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
They removed pyracantha bushes along CA freeways because birds would get drunk on the fermented berries and smack into traffic. Now we get oleanders.
raven
@Jager: I came home from Vietnam in September 69 and I was 19. I got thrown in the clink for underage drinking in a campus bar. The cop was a Nam vet and he didn’t give a fuck.
jl
@JaneE:
” Apparently the “dog beer” is really just broth with a good publicist. ”
Excuse me, bone broth. Only the best for the pups. I wonder if cats would like it.
Suzanne
@trollhattan: Yeah, that is a good thought. My grandfather made frequent trips for decades to the House of Commons and was invited into the private bar once, and every trip thereafter, and he made lifelong friends there. Apparently the ram was an ongoing joke, so one one of this last trips in the early 90s, they presented it to him.
He was very conservative, and racist in the way most white men born in 1920 were racist (for example, he HATED Italians), but he also was absolutely repulsed by Donald Trump during his prime tabloid years in the 80s. He would have turned 100 just about three weeks ago. I have been thinking about him a lot.
CaseyL
I remember watching Topper but not the context.
Possibly reruns or syndication on a VHF channel. I remember liking it, but all I remember.Wait! Now I remember – it has to have been syndicated, because I remember recognizing Leo G Carroll, who I knew as the leader of U.N.C.L.E. (I was a huge “Man From UNCLE” fan at age 8.)
jl
BTW, how is ” Respite Open Thread: We Don’t Deserve Dogs ” a respite thread?
Is someone coming to take our dogs? Or are we going to FEMA camps for the crime of felonious unworthiness of dog ownership? (or guardianship, or domestic canine mentoring, or whatever the PC version is these days).
Maybe it’s trauma from 2020, and I’m getting paranoid.
Jager
@raven: I hadn’t seen my old roomie Tom for years, I was in the Twin Cities on business, and we went out. He hadn’t changed, he was one of those guys who would drink, throw up, and start again. So here we are in our 40s, he was pounding beers like a college kid. I was driving him home, we stopped at a light, Tom opens his door, projectile vomits in the street, coughs a couple of times, and says, “Let’s stop for one more.” Haven’t seen the crazy bastard since.
raven
@Jager: Many of the people I ran with are dead now and if I hadn’t quit some 26 years ago I would be too.
jl
@CaseyL:
17:29 / 22:05
Topper S01E01 Topper Meets the Ghosts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhW0Lk6GT9A
I vaguely remember seeing a rerun. I was so young I had a hard time figuring it out. I remember it being a married couple with one ghost, but it was a stuffy upper class swell with with two ghosts.
But, when I saw it, I knew it was ghosts, so worthy of attention.
O. Felix Culpa
@SiubhanDuinne: They were so debonair.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well, I assume you know that that role was originated by Cary Grant. That’s who makes me swoon!
Jager
@zhena gogolia: How do you feel about his roomie Randolph Scott?
MC
@WereBear: Definitely. Last year we tried a collar on him and he soon jammed his paw between it and his neck and was choking himself. Hoping he doesn’t hate it so much this time around!
Jager
@raven: I have a couple of those guys in my past.
zhena gogolia
@Jager:
I ADORE HIM!!!!
He was Shirley Temple’s best costar!
He and Cary were a fabulous couple. Cary went both ways, apparently. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
zhena gogolia
@MC:
Spoiler alert: He will.
Aleta
@MC: I used these for years. https://www.lupinepet.com/
(Made in VT. They’ve gotten more expensive lately, but good quality, seemed comfortable and the break-away was always reliable. They also have harnesses now.) We get lots of things at the chewy site too. They deliver orders fast and good cust. service people if problems.
Amir Khalid
@MC:
You should be aware that not all cats will put up with a collar. Mine made that very clear.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Loosely was acquainted with someone who was a bellhop at a chi-chi hotel in NYC way back when and swore on a stack of whatever was handy he once inadvertently walked in on Tyrone Power and Rock Hudson engaged in an intimate encounter.
The kicker was the wistfully expressed coda when he told the story. “Such a shame they couldn’t have children. Their kids would have been gorgeous.”
Anotherlurker
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My girl Ginger loved beer. I would never give it to her voluntarily. However, she once knocked over a bottle of Michaelobe Amber Bock and she sampled the ejecta. She liked it. From that moment on, any unguarded beer was fair game for a swipe of her paw.
She was a beautiful, smart girl who knew what she liked and figured out how to get it.
I miss her everyday.
SWMBO
I groomed pets to pay my way through college. There are some colorful folks out there that just happen to be dogs. One of them was an Old English Sheepdog named Pogo. He was a party animal. She would throw a party on a Friday night then bring Pogo in to clean him up on a Saturday. This dog could drink everyone (except George Clooney) under the table. He ate pizza, popcorn, hot dogs, cheese, whatever she served at the party. And would get a lot of stuff in his hair. It was with trepidation that we knew he was coming. You never knew if/how many guests had barfed on him. Or if he rolled over a plate of food and had it stuck in his hair. And, dear God, if he belched in your face…