• ohellidk
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    3411 days ago

    That’s funny. My friend’s cat used to try sneaking drinks from our beer if it was left out. We had to start using covered mugs. Really loved stouts and porters, no clue why.

    • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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      1110 days ago

      My wife knows a corgi breeder, and he had a 14+ year old corgi that got his own beer every night.

      • paraphrand
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        810 days ago

        Is a single beer for a corgi like a six pack for a gamer?

        • Cethin
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          810 days ago

          Decaf still has caffeine, just less. I have no idea on the safe level for cats, but don’t assume decaf is safe. (I know this is a joke, but it needed to be said anyway.)

      • Twitches
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        1211 days ago

        That is good to know, thank you. I didnt know this, good to be careful. I looked it up. 36 to 68 mg is fatal. So a couple sips isnt bad, but, being in a coffee shop it probably wouldn’t be hard for Rocket to get enough to make him sick.

        • Mayor Poopington
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          810 days ago

          When you factor in weight, that’s not too far off from where people start dying

            • Uranium 🟩
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              110 days ago

              Roughly about 10g of caffeine for a 70kg human is where it’s starts to generally be recognised as lethal

            • Echo Dot
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              010 days ago

              Also mint, and chocolate apparently. And of course chili’s. The only one that seems to actually work on us though is nettles.

              No one’s domesticated them.

          • Uranium 🟩
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            110 days ago

            I’m actually not too sure how right you are here, my last cat was a chunky boy at 7kg, let’s say that the upper end 68mg is the LD50, I’m roughly 70kg, 680mg of coffee would be very uncomfortable and unpleasant, but I don’t think I’d be hitting the LD50.

            LD50 in humans is probably around 100mg/kg, fatal doses are 150-200mg/kg

      • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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        210 days ago

        It’s all about the degree of toxicity. Like chocolate and dogs, it takes a lot more than you’d think to be lethal.

  • don
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    1011 days ago

    (casually sips green tea) Go get ‘em, Rocket!

  • @Surp@lemmy.world
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    510 days ago

    My cat loves coffee he will dig my cup out of the trash sometimes if I’m not careful

  • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    410 days ago

    My dog adores coffee. You can’t leave a cup of it unattended anywhere she can reach because she will knock over the cup and drink what she can.