Hair of the Dog: Drunk pooch stumbles into vet's office

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Thus far, the beastly behavior we’ve chronicled here has been solely that of the human variety. However, in The Shark Book we actually devoted an entire chapter, ‘Crapulent Critters’ to our cousins lower down on the food chain, who took to the booze with a particularly anthropomorphic vigor.

From an unscrupulous Royal footman who got the Queen’s Royal corgis hopped up on gin and whiskey (one of whom later met a grisly fate: mauled to death by Princess Anne's bull terrier--the corgi, not the footman, we should specify, given HRM's nasty streak), to Swedish elk trashing a retirement home drunk on fermented apples and a pet parrot tossed from a bar for taking sips of customers’ pints, we’ve certainly seen our share of fauna that’ve dulled their senses with the drink.

In a small North Austrian town, a concerned dog owner--a hunter-- arrived at the vet with a Labrador, ‘Dingo’. [Editor's note: Given that the country in question, is in fact Austria and not Australia, we insist that you show respect for your fellow cubicle dwellers and refrain from uttering that famous phrase, regardless of how spot-on you think your Aussie brogue might be].

Reports state that ‘Dingo’ was swaying heavily and unable to walk, and given the penchant for hunters to set their sights on targets of a more chilled, stationary and aluminum variety, the man quipped: "Nasty-minded people often say that we hunters are often drunk, but in my case it was the dog."

Indeed he was, after it was discovered that Dingo had devoured half a kilo of fresh yeast dough which had then fermented inside his belly. According to a vet, not referring to the hunter, “When I got him up on the table, it smelt like a distillery."