Catteau Blanc – The Weird Side of the Internet

Catteau Blanc – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

Picture yourself the pet who has everything. Only the fanciest of feasting, and days spent in fun and frolic. Even the vet is as relaxing as a four-star spa. Satin pet bed, you know the life. Can there be anything to add to this? How about pet wine?

Muttley’s Estate sells wine. Granted it doesn’t have alcohol in it, but it does have everything your pet might expect out of alcohol, and it even has catnip in it. Surprisingly, it doesn’t have grapes. The owner, John Roberts, made pet wine based on dog beer he had seen. Yes, so apparently there is dog beer.

This isn’t just giving our pets something to party with, pet wine is good for them in stressful situations. “There was no nutritional holistic option for the pets other than just dosing them up,” Roberts said.

I get it for cats. The catnip infusion makes sense; they get a buzz. Do dogs get a buzz off of catnip, or is there a special dognip?

Part of the success of this is that New Zealand has a wine-making culture. It would only pass in this country because we have a being intoxicated culture. But I’m sure it’ll make it as a fad. I’ve yet to see it, so who knows? I mean, it could be great for amateur vintners to hook their pets up. And the most obnoxious people will relish in making their country clubs also serve it to their pets.

I don’t mind stuff like wine for your dog. I’m a sucker for novelty. It’s cool to see how they package it. What’s not going to be cool are the endless pet-friendly blogs and instagram accounts that are going to subtly infer that only the good pet owners give their fur babies the best of wines. Yeah, I’m looking at you, pet food that is basically chunks of human food. I’m still not eating that good.

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