Posted on 03/09/2014 9:52:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
For many people, arriving at A&E at death’s door and being told the only way for you to survive was to get blind drunk would count as a result.
That’s the situation Maltese terrier Charlie found himself in after being left with hours to live after licking coolant from his owner Jacinta Rosewarne’s garage.
Quick-thinking vets deduced that the little dog had ethylene glycol poisoning, which can lead to kidney failure – and the only treatment was to get him as drunk as possible.
Because pure alcohol can alter antifreeze chemicals and allow them to be flushed out of an animal’s body, Charlie was given 700ml of vodka over two days via a tube.
Animal Accident & Emergency wrote on its blog: ‘For the whole weekend, Charlie had a huge party with us in the Pet ICU.’
It almost certainly saved his life – but also left him with an almighty hangover.
‘He was definitely drunk,’ said Ms Rosewarne, from Melbourne, in Australia, told the Herald Sun.
‘He was stumbling around, I’d go to pat him and he’d push me away like a normal drunk person, he was vomiting a little, whining like a drunk.’
She added: ‘I thought it was hilarious. It was distressing but funny at the same time.
I graduate in May 2016 - just in time to vote for a conservative for the White House.
Whoo hoo. Since November 5 2008 I am immune to antifreeze!
Phrenology is so outdated I’m surprized the left doesn’t have a way to use it claiming that conservatives have a section of their brain were racism is embedded.
So... DON”T give a dog beer but DO give him lots and lots and lots of vodka???
You’re not fooling me—you’d vote anyway! I can’t wait—we gotta have a whizzbangwhoppadoozie graduation celebration!
I’m just taking it semester by semester. Luckily, I have freeping to keep me semi-sane.
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