well, that depends on the dog. i’d put sweetheart, as a samoyed-type, at around 20kg. so a hershey bar would be no problem. (given her character, i don’t think she’d go for that fancy-pants dark stuff anyway.)
She complained to one of her former packmates that their superdog package metabolized alcohol way too fast to her taste, so it’s probably safe. Not sure how it translate to chocolate though.
I had to look that up. 300 is correct for dogs, but for humans it is 1000 mg/kg. So chocolate is about 1/3 as poisonous for humans as it is for dogs. Fortunately, I’ve been building up a tolerance for years now!
Well, you grab the cap in your teeth, and twist the bottle around with your paws. Then when the cap comes off you lose grip with your paws spilling the contents upon a conveniently placed recepticle otherwise known as Nick’s deck. You can lap it up from there.
Being dry is reason enough to drink, according to Anonymous:
If all be true that I do think,
There be five reasons why one should drink;
Good friends, good wine, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by-and-by,
Or any other reason why.
For fire safety and NBC-warfare purposes, it’s a good idea for a sapient helicopter to have an array inside the cabin that can detect aromatic compounds, similar to the machine they put those paper disks in when they do the one-level-beyond-annoying search of your luggage at the airport. Combine heightened with a brain that still has organic sense-memory and you’ve got a person with a super nose inside his cabin.
…this romance plotline is great. There should be more romance plotlines like this. Seriously. It’s always a bunch of staring at each other and sighing. There should be a subgenre of romance: “The Couple Has Friends. Dun dun dun!”
Not my fault, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog! Oy gevalt, I’m drunk an’ I don’t care tonight! Wet dog!
Single malt will make our feelings bare tonight! Wet dog!
Wet dog …
Well, although Nick will not admit it,
He fell for Doctor Lee!
He’ll try and try to just deny,
But we know that he knows what we see!
It’s so obvious, even Tip’s catching on,
It shouldn’t come as any shock!
The response that Nick chooses?
“The fridge where the booze is,
Will soon have a dog-proof lock!”
But that smell, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog!
Can’t dispel that odor in the air tonight! Wet dog!
Zinfandel she’s drinking and won’t share tonight! Wet dog!
What the hell, she’s drunk and doesn’t care tonight! Wet dog!
Wet dog …
I totally love that, in a group including a deeply repressed dog, an anti-social former shut-in, and an id-driven zombie killing machine, the team therapist is the gold standard for “unaware of how other people feel”.
Said shut-in is also a cyborg with romance issues, who used a body now inhabited by a water cooler.
While this makes for a good summary of Skin Horse, I get the feeling that, after a certain amount of weirdness, it doesn’t really increase the comedy value of that statement.
Is it safe at all for dogs to drink alcohol?
I guess as long as she doesn’t eat chocolate, she’ll be OK eventually…
Theobromine LD_50 (oral) in dogs is 300mg/kg.
In humans it is 280mg/kg.
But they have far fewer kilograms.
well, that depends on the dog. i’d put sweetheart, as a samoyed-type, at around 20kg. so a hershey bar would be no problem. (given her character, i don’t think she’d go for that fancy-pants dark stuff anyway.)
She complained to one of her former packmates that their superdog package metabolized alcohol way too fast to her taste, so it’s probably safe. Not sure how it translate to chocolate though.
Her enhancements include general poison near-immunity, AFAIK.
I had to look that up. 300 is correct for dogs, but for humans it is 1000 mg/kg. So chocolate is about 1/3 as poisonous for humans as it is for dogs. Fortunately, I’ve been building up a tolerance for years now!
Is it safe for genetically engineered battle dogs to drink alcohol? Yes.
Is it safe for this genetically engineered battle dog to drink alcohol? No.
How is she drinking the alcohol? That’s my question.
Well, you grab the cap in your teeth, and twist the bottle around with your paws. Then when the cap comes off you lose grip with your paws spilling the contents upon a conveniently placed recepticle otherwise known as Nick’s deck. You can lap it up from there.
That . . . was very specific of you.
I would like to state for the record that I am not now, nor have I ever been a dog, sapient or otherwise.
Carefully hold the bottle between your forepaws, lifting it to your mouth, and pour it carefully on your tongue as you lap quickly, nyao.
Not that I have any experience in such things, mind you…
At least she hasn’t gotten all racist this time.
THEY TOTALLY NEEDED TO HAVE EXACTLY THIS CONVERSATION.
(actually no. i totally needed to lol at them having exactly this conversation 🙂
It’s only a matter of time before somebody finds Nick’s brain tank and empties a few bottles of tequila in it.
You just gave me a horrifying mental image of Unity trying to eat the worm out of Nick’s brain tank…
4 out of 5 dogs prefer to be dry than wet. Unless there’s a chance to get everyone else wet.
Being dry is reason enough to drink, according to Anonymous:
If all be true that I do think,
There be five reasons why one should drink;
Good friends, good wine, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by-and-by,
Or any other reason why.
Presumably, the first name of Mr. or Ms. Anonymous was not Alcoholics.
Really? I’ve seen dogs that love to go swimming, not even bothering to shake like some sort of hairy centrifuge afterwards.
When was it established that Nick has a sense of smell, or is he just making an educated guess that she smells like wet dog?
For fire safety and NBC-warfare purposes, it’s a good idea for a sapient helicopter to have an array inside the cabin that can detect aromatic compounds, similar to the machine they put those paper disks in when they do the one-level-beyond-annoying search of your luggage at the airport. Combine heightened with a brain that still has organic sense-memory and you’ve got a person with a super nose inside his cabin.
…this romance plotline is great. There should be more romance plotlines like this. Seriously. It’s always a bunch of staring at each other and sighing. There should be a subgenre of romance: “The Couple Has Friends. Dun dun dun!”
(TUNE: “In The Air Tonight”, Phil Collins)
Not my fault, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog!
Oy gevalt, I’m drunk an’ I don’t care tonight! Wet dog!
Single malt will make our feelings bare tonight! Wet dog!
Wet dog …
Well, although Nick will not admit it,
He fell for Doctor Lee!
He’ll try and try to just deny,
But we know that he knows what we see!
It’s so obvious, even Tip’s catching on,
It shouldn’t come as any shock!
The response that Nick chooses?
“The fridge where the booze is,
Will soon have a dog-proof lock!”
But that smell, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog!
Can’t dispel that odor in the air tonight! Wet dog!
Zinfandel she’s drinking and won’t share tonight! Wet dog!
What the hell, she’s drunk and doesn’t care tonight! Wet dog!
Wet dog …
Should be real interesting when it’s Tip’s turn for a bender…
I totally love that, in a group including a deeply repressed dog, an anti-social former shut-in, and an id-driven zombie killing machine, the team therapist is the gold standard for “unaware of how other people feel”.
Said shut-in is also a cyborg with romance issues, who used a body now inhabited by a water cooler.
While this makes for a good summary of Skin Horse, I get the feeling that, after a certain amount of weirdness, it doesn’t really increase the comedy value of that statement.
This is but a guess, but I think it means that in the absense of the psychologist, the water cooler is winding up the receptionist.
I was just thinking how under-appreciated the line “Even Tip’s catching on” is.
In her condition I’d half expect Sweetheart to start telling … What would be the equivalent of Shaggy Dog Stories?