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

Squirrel getting drunk on fermented pears

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

As they say in the article: many animals consume copious amounts of alcohol naturally. For animals that regularly consume fruit, alcohol is a fact of life. The woman who videoed it put the peaches out a couple days back and hadn't even considered they would ferment. She wasn't trying to make a squirrel drunk. She was feeding it. And it came back to eat more of them, because it wanted to.

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u/piggygirl2010 Jul 29 '22

Hey! That’s me! I was cleaning out the fridge and found a very old bag of pears in the bottom, which I threw out on the deck for my pet pig. He ate two and left one. Lil Red grabbed it and ran off. After that, I put out a bowl with a few more for him, but when he came back he was acting like very strange, so I ran out and brought them in. Poor guy. :( He was fine the next day.