Yeast-eating Dog Treated For Drunkenness

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Yeast-eating dog treated for drunkenness

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A dog was admitted to a veterinary clinic in Austria at the weekend, barely able to stand on his own four paws and reeking "like a beer hall," a newspaper reports.

Dingo, a three-year-old labrador weighing 40 kilograms, was a pitiful sight when his owner brought him in to the surgery in the Salzkammergut region, the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten quoted vet Karl Hofbauer as saying.

"The dog had dreadful wind and diarrhoea, and was vomiting a lot," the vet said.

"When I got him up on the table, it smelt like a distillery."

Tests indicated that the dog had a blood alcohol content of 1.6 gram of alcohol per litre of blood.

But his owner, a hunter, insisted that was not the result of Dingo having one drink too many.

The hungry pooch had stolen and secretly devoured half a kilogram of fresh yeast dough from the kitchen.

Alcohol had formed inside his stomach as a result of the fermentation process, leaving poor Dingo stone drunk.

"Nasty-minded people said that we hunters are often drunk. With me, it's my dog," joked the owner.

- AFP

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/08/2133613.htm

 

[QldKev]

Officer: Have you been drinking
Me: No officier, but I had a snack on some yeast before!

 

[brettprevans]

its not the yeast that caused drunkiness its the dough. there is no alcohol in yeast.

It was probably bread dough which pobably had sugar in it (combioned with other sugars in the stomach). yeast + sugar + the massive amount of heat in a dogs belly causes bread dough to ferment and create alcohol. Family friends stupid ass Labrador did the same thing about 8 years ago - ate 2 rising bread dough balls and had to be operated on as the dough was expaning so much in the dogs stomach that it would of caused it to explode. stupid labs.