In our house, if you like eating goose grap, you drink water. Sorry, but those are the rules.
FYI, folks: alcohol is very bad for dogs. Their livers aren't equipped to process it like ours are. So please, please, don't go feeding your dog more than a sip of beer! My pup likes to take a few laps from my glass here and there---probably just likes the sugar---but it's never more than an ounce or so. [/PSA]
I don't see the big deal. All it is is a liquid dog treat. I don't see how this is pampering a dog anymore than throwing him a milkbone.
FYI, folks: alcohol is very bad for dogs. Their livers aren't equipped to process it like ours are. So please, please, don't go feeding your dog more than a sip of beer! My pup likes to take a few laps from my glass here and there---probably just likes the sugar---but it's never more than an ounce or so. [/PSA]
Dog livers can process alcohol. The standard treatment for chocolate poisoning is IV alcohol. The liver processes the alcohol rather than the theobromine and the kidneys clear out the theobromine. I had a Shepard-mix that ate two pounds of chocolate chips my GF left out.
Chronic alcohol use causes all of the problems it does in people.
Ethanol IS/WAS THE treatment for ethylene glycol (antifreeze) toxicity. Ethylene glycol itself is about as toxic as Ethanol, but its metabolites are extremely toxic. The idea for treatment is to prevent the metabolism of EG so it can be flushed from the body before it causes damage. Alcohol dehyrogenase is the first stop on the metabolic pathway, and since Ethanol has a higher affinity for the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme, it competitively inhibits the metabolism of ethylene glycol to glycoaldehyde, allowing it to be excreted un-metabolized preventing further damage.
More recent treatments for ethylene glycol include 1,3-butandiol and 4-methyl pyrazole due to thier even higher affinity for alcohol dehydrogenase and less side effects than ethanol.
The brew mentioned in the OP is non-alcoholic and made with beef and malt extracts. Click on the link you'll that see that info in big letters at the very top of the article
And I'm sure that there's no more complex a process involved in making this stuff than there is in making "dog beer", then bottling and capping it...
It just seems like a gimmick to me. Hehe, "dog beer", hey, I like beer, I should get some for my dog so he can drink beer too...hehe, beer. Yeah, yeah, BEER! Or I could just go buy some milkbones or whatever my dog likes to eat, like rawhide strips.
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