# Can an animal be DUI? And are you liable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-animal-be-dui-and-are-you-liable/566352>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-animal-be-dui-and-are-you-liable/566352 "2011-01-04T12:48:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-animal-be-dui-and-are-you-liable/566352/41 "2011-02-14T07:36:36Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> I’m bumping this thread because of [this](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355227/Basil-stallion-The-horse-walks-bar-orders-pint.html) article about a horse that drinks beer.

My horse used to drink beer. Mind, she weighed 1100 pounds, and at her weight, one 12-oz beer at 5% abv wasn’t going to do her any harm. But to her, it was cold, barley-tasting water, and she slurped it up from the bottle as a reward after we had a ride on a hot summer’s day. She also got a carrot or two, and an apple. But I should point out that her single beer came after we had our weekly ride; she got apples and carrots as a matter of course with her sweet feed and hay. But she’d get one beer only from me after we rode once a week.

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