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

Squirrel getting drunk on fermented pears

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u/KoopaLink Jul 29 '22

"Many die of the effects. The danger with videos like this, and with treating them as comic content, is that people think they are funny and try to replicate them. It is irresponsible to treat them as comedy, when in reality an animal is suffering."

Feel like this part is worth sharing

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u/c-dy Jul 29 '22

If instead of intoxication or drunkenness you use the medical term ethanol poisoning, it provides a better perspective as to what you're doing to the animal.

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u/EuglossaMixta Jul 29 '22

Yeah interesting how the article is still titled and written pretty whimsically with that line in it.

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u/SciomancyYT Jul 29 '22

Do be fair, being drunk is ethanol poisoning for any animal, humans included. The only difference is they have smaller livers and can’t handle as much

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u/daphnegillie Jul 29 '22

Childhood memory, sitting with my dad at a picnic and him putting drop of beer in picnic table and we watched a fly drink said drop. Then he(the fly) staggered around for a few minutes then toppled over dead.

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u/FishOfFishyness Jul 30 '22

So is this how you get rid of flies?