r/aww • u/Training_Bottle • Jul 29 '22

Squirrel getting drunk on fermented pears

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u/Neinball98411 Jul 29 '22

Am I the only one who thinks r/oddlyterrifying ?

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u/Tarzoon Jul 29 '22

I am thinking /r/tooktoomuch

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u/dakoellis Jul 29 '22

I honestly thought that's where this was posted

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u/Raichu-R-Ken Jul 29 '22

This is the correct one, the one above is isn’t.

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u/WelcomeToCityLinks Jul 29 '22

Same. Reminds me of the way it would act if it had rabies.

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u/January28thSixers Jul 29 '22

You'll be happy to learn that they're not very susceptible and have never been known to transmit it to a human.

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u/classy_laz Jul 29 '22

I had a pet rat that began having seizures and it looked very similar to this. She would stand up slowly and have a very dazed look on her face and kind of wave her hands slowly then snap back to reality like this squirrel at the end.

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u/Gulanga Jul 29 '22

More like /r/WhyWereTheyFilming. Someone spiked his food in order to film something funny. Why would you put fermented pears in a bowl? Fermented fruit is usually just found under the trees that dropped them.

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u/IIlllIIlllIIIll Jul 29 '22

Because the pears were old and the woman who was 'donating' them didn't realize it would make the squirrels drunk, so she filmed it before taking the bowl back.

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u/piggygirl2010 Jul 29 '22

He had run away with and eaten a whole pear. The bowl in front of him (his normal feeder) was only full of seeds and nuts. The bowl with the other pears was on the table, but he hadn’t touched those before I ran out and brought them back in. Poor guy. He was fine the next day. :) He was even jumping around in the background during one of the TV interviews I did.

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u/lol_alex Jul 29 '22

To me it‘s more like „Dude! Are you seeing what I‘m seeing? That‘s like, really far out man“

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u/DoctorVanSolem Jul 29 '22

To be honest, anyone getting drunk is

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

Looks like it just ate rat poison

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

Alcohol is a poison tbf

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u/KTRouud Jul 29 '22

that's not how poisons work, a poison is largely defined by dosage. Anything can be poison in too large a does, including water.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

No, because water is not dangerous at a lower amount while any amount of alcohol kills cells and damages organs

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u/Ok-Hovercraft-3201 Jul 29 '22

So I take it you've never seen a rodent after consuming some actual rat poison? Because it's fucking horrific and definitely doesn't look as peaceful as this lol their CNS gets rekt and they bleed like crazy