Cats & Dogs

Een plaatje zoals dit had mijn zus vroeger als kind op haar kamer. Ik had een vergelijkbare plaat, maar dan met 4 hondjes. Katten en honden intrigeren. Mannen zouden net als honden zijn en vrouwen als katten?

...you must understand that women are like cats, and men are like dogs. What do I mean by this? Cats tend to come and go as they please. They do what they want, when they want and with who they want. Dogs on the other hand, are very loyal and always are at your side no matter what. Dogs will do what they are told such as: sit, lay down, roll over, etc. When you tell a cat what to do, they pretty much ignore you and do whatever the hell they want LOL.
When you call a dog, it happily comes to you. When you call a cat, it will usually give you a look like, “are you serious?” Men are very logic and reason oriented. If you want them to do something you must give them step-by-step instructions. They usually are not good at reading between the lines to figure out what a woman is really trying to say to them. When a woman is in a relationship with a man who does not understand women, she has a choice. She can either tell him in a logical way and with step-by-step instructions what she wants and how she wants to be treated, or she can become single again until she finds a man who does understand women. Why? The average man is too lazy and egocentric to admit they need help with women. Therefore, they will change nothing and continue to fail.
Cats are curious by nature and come and go as they please. If they become bored, they will leave and go exploring to find something that is interesting to them (www.understandingrelationships.com/women-are-like-cats-men-dogs/4365).

Overigens zou je het ook andersom kinnen stellen zoals Jodi Miller doet:


Ze zijn ook leuk voor in films:

Cats & Dogs, in Nederland ook getiteld Als Kat en Hond, is een Amerikaanse speelfilm uit 2001. Het verhaal is afgeleid van dat uit de speelfilms van James Bond, met een verwijzing naar From Russia with Love. In deze film kunnen de katten en honden spreken (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%26_Dogs).

A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, which their human owners are blissfully unaware of (www.imdb.com/title/tt0239395/).

En in taal:


It's raining cats and dogs
Meaning: Raining very heavily.
(www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)

I know the phrase it’s raining cats and dogs is a bit outdated, but do you have any idea about its origin? (www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rai1.htm)

What is the origin of the phrase "it’s raining cats and dogs?"
 We don’t know. The phrase might have its roots in Norse mythology, medieval superstitions, the obsolete word catadupe (waterfall), or dead animals in the streets of Britain being picked up by storm waters.
The first recorded use of a phrase similar to “raining cats and dogs” was in the 1651 collection of poems Olor Iscanus. British poet Henry Vaughan referred to a roof that was secure against “dogs and cats rained in shower.” One year later, Richard Brome, an English playwright, wrote in his comedy City Witt, “It shall rain dogs and polecats.” (Polecats are related to the weasel and were common in Great Britain through the end of the nineteenth century.)
In 1738, Jonathan Swift published his “Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation,” a satire on the conversations of the upper classes. One of his characters fears that it will “rain cats and dogs.” (www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/rainingcats.html)

The English idiom "it is raining cats and dogs", used to describe an especially heavy rain, is of unknown etymology [...] There may not be a logical explanation; the phrase may have been used just for its nonsensical humor value[.] (http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14273/the-etymology-of-the-phrase-its-raining-cats-and-dogs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals) like other equivalent English expressions ("it is raining pitchforks", "hammer handles", etc.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals).

Again, we don’t know for certain. Etymologists—people who study the origins of words—have suggested a variety of mythological and literal explanations for why people say “it’s raining cats and dogs” to describe a heavy downpour.  Here are some of the popular theories (www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/rainingcats.html). How many explanations would you like? I have found at least five (www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rai1.htm):

• Odin, the Norse god of storms, was often pictured with dogs and wolves, which were symbols of wind. Witches, who supposedly rode their brooms during storms, were often pictured with black cats, which became signs of heavy rain for sailors.  Therefore, “raining cats and dogs” may refer to a storm with wind (dogs) and heavy rain (cats). ( It seems that cats were at one time thought to have influence over storms, especially by sailors, and that dogs were symbols of storms, often accompanying images and descriptions of the Norse storm god Odin. So when some particularly violent tempest appeared, people suggested it was caused by cats (bringing the rain) and dogs (the wind) (www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rai1.htm))
• “Cats and dogs” may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard.
• “Cats and dogs” may be a perversion of the now obsolete word catadupe.  In old English, catadupe meant a cataract or waterfall.  A version of catadupe existed in many old languages.In Latin, for example, catadupa. was borrowed from the classical Greek κατάδουποι, which referred to  the cataracts of the Nile River.  So, to say it’s raining “cats and dogs” might be to say it’s raining waterfalls.
• A false theory stated that cats and dogs used to cuddle into thatch roofs during storms and then be washed out during heavy rains. However, a properly maintained thatch roof is naturally water resistant and slanted to allow water to run off.  In order to slip off the roof, the animals would have to be lying on the outside—an unlikely place for an animal to seek shelter during a storm (www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/rainingcats.html).
•  there is some evidence that suggests a direct link between heavy rain that seems to precipitate cats and dogs. It comes from a poem by Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower:Sweeping from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood;Drown’d puppies, stinking sprats, all drench’d in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. As Swift penned these lines in 1710, nearly 30 years before he wrote the book in which raining cats and dogs appears for the first time, it just might suggest that he was quoting an expression he himself had created (www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rai1.htm).

Origin: This is an interesting phrase in that, although there's no definitive origin, there is a likely derivation. Before we get to that, let's get some of the fanciful proposed derivations out of the way.
The phrase isn't related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase 'fight like cat and dog'. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, that is, it doesn't record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Impromptu involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there's no record of groups of them being scooped up in that way and causing this phrase to be coined. Not that we need to study English meteorological records for that - it's plainly implausible.
One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with rain. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.
It has also been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale. It got a new lease of life with the e-mail message "Life in the 1500s", which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant part of that:
I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."
This is nonsense of course. It hardly needs debunking but, lest there be any doubt, let's do that anyway. In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch - hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather (www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)


Another suggestion is that 'raining cats and dogs' comes from a version of the French word 'catadoupe', meaning waterfall. Again, no evidence. If the phrase were just 'raining cats', or even if there also existed a French word 'dogadoupe', we might be going somewhere with this one. As there isn't, let's pass this by.
There's a similar phrase originating from the North of England - 'raining stair-rods'. No one has gone to the effort of speculating that this is from mythic reports of stairs being carried into the air in storms and falling on gullible peasants. It's just a rather expressive phrase giving a graphic impression of heavy rain - as is 'raining cats and dogs' (www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html). Die laatste ('stair-rods') doet me wat denken aan pijpestelen (Al is het niet hetzelfde: Stair-rods are the metal rods that hold stair-carpets in place on each step. The allusion is to rain which is so heavy as to appear like falling stair-rods.) . Zo raar is dat gezegde dus niet.

We do know that the phrase was in use in a modified form in 1653, ....The first appearance of the currently used version is in Jonathan Swift’s A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation in 1738:
"I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs".
The fact that Swift had alluded to the streets flowing with dead cats and dogs some years earlier and now used 'rain cats and dogs' explicitly is good evidence that poor sanitation was the source of the phrase as we now use it.
The much more probable source of 'raining cats and dogs' is the prosaic fact that, in the filthy streets of 17th/18th century England, heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals and other debris. The animals didn't fall from the sky, but the sight of dead cats and dogs floating by in storms could well have caused the coining of this colourful phrase. Jonathan Swift described such an event in his satirical poem 'A Description of a City Shower', first published in the 1710 collection of the Tatler magazine. The poem was a denunciation of contemporary London society and its meaning has been much debated. While the poem is metaphorical and doesn't describe a specific flood, it seems that, in describing water-borne animal corpses, Swift was referring to an occurrence that his readers would have been well familiar with:
Now in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down,
Threat'ning with Deluge this devoted Town.
...
Now from all Parts the swelling Kennels flow,
And bear their Trophies with them as they go:
Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell
What Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell.
They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force,
...
Sweeping from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood,
Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud,
Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood.
(www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)

Je kan er ook leuke woordgrapjes mee maken:


Other languages have equally bizarre expressions for heavy rain:
Afrikaans: ou vrouens met knopkieries reen ("old women with clubs")
Bengali: মুষলধারে বৃষ্টি পড়ছে musholdhare brishṭi poṛchhe ("in a stream of mallets")
Bosnian: padaju ćuskije ("crowbars")
Cantonese: "落狗屎" ("dog poo")
Catalan: Ploure a bots i barrals ("boats and barrels")
Croatian: padaju sjekire ("axes dropping")
Czech: padají trakaře ("wheelbarrows")
Danish: det regner skomagerdrenge ("shoemakers' apprentices")
Dutch: het regent pijpenstelen ("pipe stems or stair rods")
Dutch (Flemish): het regent oude wijven ("old women")
Dutch (Flemish): het regent kattenjongen ("kittens")
Faroese : Tað regnar av grind ("Pilot whales")
French: il pleut des seaux ("it's raining buckets")
French: il pleut des hallebardes ("it is raining halberds"), clous ("nails"), or cordes ("ropes")
German: Es regnet junge Hunde ("young dogs")
Greek: βρέχει καρεκλοπόδαρα ("chair legs")
Norwegian: det regner trollkjerringer ("she-trolls")
Romanian: plouă cu broaşte ("raining frogs")
Spanish: llueven sapos y culebras ("toads and snakes")
Spanish (Argentina): caen soretes de punta ("pieces of dung head-first")
Spanish (Colombia): estan lloviendo maridos ("it's raining husbands")
Serbian: padaju sekire ("axes")
Swedish: Det regnar smådjävlar ("It is raining little devils")
Swedish: Det regnar småspik ("It is raining small nails")
Welsh: mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn ("old ladies and sticks")
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals)

Maar goed dit is geen etymologisch blog. Ik wilde het hebben over honden en katten. En aangezien het een bierblog is wilde ik het hebben over honden- en kattenbier.

Hondenbier bestaat:


Maar alcohol is slecht voor honden: If a dog ingests alcohol, it can potentially result in
vomiting
diarrhea
lack of coordination
central nervous system depression
difficulty breathing
tremors
acidosis
coma
and even death.
Bottom line .. giving your dog the left-over beer is not funny - it can be hazardous. (www.pet-dog-cat-supply-store.com/dog-hazards.php)


A man’s best friend should deserve all the finer things in life: beer and steak. After a long day, men can now enjoy a drink with their dog. The Dutch beer, Hondenbier, translates to “doggie beer.” Hondenbier is a steak-flavored beer and is nonalcoholic (http://voidlive.com/food/8-bizarre-beers-you-probably-didnt-know-existed/).

Kwispelbier is pintje voor de hond
Arjan Berendsen van dierenspeciaalzaak Molenkamp heeft het Kwispelbier zelf ontwikkeld en door een brouwerij laten brouwen. Het is gebrouwen uit grondstoffen die de voedingsmiddelenindustrie ook voor mensen gebruikt, stelt het bedrijf, waaronder hoogwaardige mineralen en aminozuren.


De Amerikaanse hondenbezitster Jamie Miller uit Napa Californie heeft een speciaal bier gebrouwen voor honden. De aanleiding: haar Japanse Akita Kodi stootte regelmatig haar flesje om om van het gerstenat te proeven.
Jamie Miller en haar man hebben het bier zelf ontwikkeld. Voorwaarde was dat het bier alcoholvrij en niet-koolzuurhoudend moest zijn. De naam: Happy Tail Ale (vrij vertaald: gelukkige staart bier). De Millers hebben de productie uitbesteed aan een professionele brouwer, de Indian Wells Brewery (www.hondenbiertje.nl/).


Happy Tail Ale is a non-alcoholic drink, made in a real brewery with artesian water and choice malted barley and sold as a six-pack. Brewed in 500-gallon copper kettles, all-natural beef drippings gives it a beef flavor and it’s fortified with Glucosamine and Vitamin E.
“Of course its best served cold,” says Jamie Miller of the Dog Star Brewing Co. in Napa Valley, Calif. who came up with the idea for the bottled beverage when she and her husband Kevin were out with their Akita named Kodi and a bottle of beer got knocked over and Kodi lapped up before anyone could mop up (www.nbcnews.com/id/21655027/ns/travel-family/t/new-pet-caf-society/#.VOje7_mG-8c).


HONDENBIER LUCKY DOG
Heerlijk biertje voor uw hond. Inhoud 33CL met kipsmaak (www.123dierenshop.nl/hondenbier-lucky-dog.html).


Creator Jenny Brown said she got the idea at a holiday farmer's market in 2007 for which she made spicy pretzels and, at the urging of customers, a peanut-butter alternative for their dogs. Thinking to herself, "What goes better with pretzels than beer?" Brown devised four beer recipes for her three dogs to taste-test. One recipe was the clear winner, and Bowser Beer was born (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/seattle-company-brews-dog-friendly-beer/story?id=16596042).


Bowserbrew is overigens niet de brouwer van dit Browserbier.
Well somewhere in the middle of Montana lies yet another of the state's infamous small towns by the name of Winifred. Many of you likely have not heard of the town, but for those of you who have you know that if Winifred can produce anything it is an appreciation for beer. It's here that the love of beer grew in men and, more importantly, in the heart of one man, by the name of Evan Bowser, who turned that love into a dream...
With some planning, a few brews in between, and a brand new baby later, the family owned Bowser Brewing Co became the first brewery to grace Great Falls in over 40 years. Along with his parents, Rich and Deb, his wife Michelle and new born baby Kendall, the Bowser's opened the door of delicious beer to the public on December 23, 2011 (www.bowserbrew.com/).


What’s in Bowser Beer?
USDA beef or chicken.
Malt barley (full of B-vitamins) –just like in your beer.
Glucosamine for joint health (http://bowserbeer.com/health-bone-e-fits/).

What’s NOT in Bowser Beer:
Alcohol or carbonation.
Hops,which can be toxic to dogs.
Commercial broth,which contains loads of salt,fat,MSG,onions and meat of unknown origin (http://bowserbeer.com/health-bone-e-fits/).

Guaranteed Analysis  of Bowser Beer:
Crude protein (min) 1%
Crude Fat (min) 0%
Crude Fiber (Max) 0%
Moisture not more than 89% (http://bowserbeer.com/health-bone-e-fits/).

We make our own broth with real meat and do not add ANY salt. There is no yeast added, which causes fermentation, so Bowser Beer contains no alcohol or carbonation.   As far as getting your dog drunk (Really??), remember that someone needs to be the Designated Walker and with your drinking history, it’d better be him.
According to the Pet Poison Hotline http://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poison/hops/ Hops
When ingested by dogs (or rarely, cats), signs of hop poisoning include malignant hyperthermia (with temperatures exceeding 105⁰F/40.6⁰C), increased breathing, a racing heart rate, anxiety, vomiting, abnormal clotting, and even death.  Certain breeds are more susceptible than others and the residue from home brewed hops can be especially toxic (http://bowserbeer.com/frequently-asked-questions/). Death has been reported in dogs poisoned by hops within 6 hours of ingestion (without treatment). Any breed of dog may be affected, but breeds predisposed to malignant hyperthermia (e.g., greyhounds, Labrador retrievers, Saint Bernards, pointers, Dobermans, Border collies, English springer spaniels, and northern breeds) are at higher risk for toxicity (www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poison/hops/).

Het hondenbier Bowser is te koop op Amazon.




Hier is een filmpje over het bier (www.examiner.com/article/this-beer-has-gone-to-the-dogs).


Posted on April 7, 2010 by jbrown
Our friends at Beer Magazine were kind enough to put us on their front cover!!
Bowser Beer was featured in an article called Pooch Hooch on pg. 34.  The online edition is not up yet, so run out and pick up a copy.
The article pointed out that it’s tempting to sneak some beer to your thirsty pals but there are safer alternatives… like Bowser Beer for dogs (http://bowserbeer.com/category/celebrity-dogs/).


Check out our mention in the Washington City Paper’s Article: Yuppie Chow: Dogs are the New Diners! November 2014
The dog menu is only available when it’s warm enough to use the patio, but hotel guests can order the canine specialities year-round for room service. Among the featured items: a $8 six-ounce grilled steak called the “Hungry Dawg,” homemade dog treats, beef tips in “rich sauce” with rice, and $4 non-alcoholic beer called “Bowser Beer,” which is a meat broth and malt barley drink that keeps dogs hydrated and can serve as a full meal. “We can sell quite a bit of it,” Smith says of the beer. “It’s like an energy drink for the dog.”
Source: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/11/06/yuppie-chow-dogs-are-the-new-diners/ (http://bowserbeer.com/blog/)


Ben Verbeeck uit Brasschaat brouwt namelijk bier voor honden. Lucky Dog wordt gemaakt door The Lucky Animal Factory en wordt verkocht in flesjes. Je maakt het flesje open en je schudt er een goed mee terwijl je de duim op de opening houdt. daardoor komen de extracten naar boven (www.radio2.be/regio/antwerpen/hondenbier). Beluister hier het telefoongesprekje op Radio 2.


Het nieuwe Belgische hondenbier 'Snuffle' valt wereldwijd in de smaak. Volgens de Antwerpse brouwers is 75% van de honden fan. Een eigen test met drie honden lijkt dat ook te bevestigen. Vooral grote loebassen lusten wel een 'pintje'... of drie.
Het Antwerpse bedrijf The Happy Animal Planet ontwikkelde enkele maanden geleden 'Snuffle Dog Beer', "omdat het toch erg leuk zou zijn om op café een pintje te delen met je beste vriend." (www.hln.be/hln/nl/17541/Het-leukste-van-het-web/article/detail/2073679/2014/10/03/Cafetest-wat-vinden-honden-echt-van-nieuwe-hondenbier.dhtml).


'So if I can enjoy a beer or 3, Canto my faithful Weimaraner should also. Right?' That's what Arjan Berendsen thought. So after lot of testing & tasting, he invented the first dog beer. That was in 2009 (http://snuffle-dogbeer.com/).


Snuffle Dog Beer is het eerste bier voor honden. Laten we het anders zeggen, "bier" in de emotionele betekenis van het woord. Technisch is Snuffle is geen echte bier natuurlijk. Het bevat geen alcohol (Wie heeft er een dronken, boerende hond? :-) Maar emotioneel is het zeer zeker een biertje. Wij, mannen of vrouw, drinken bier met onze vrienden, ontspannen of speciale momenten, de leuke momenten te delen. Om te lachen, te bespreken en soms samen te huilen. En de favoriete manier om dat te doen is ..., met een biertje. Dit kan nu ook met die echte beste vriend in je leven: je hond! (www.purrfectdesign.net/nl/snuffle-dog-beer-hondenbier.html).


Snuffle is gemaakt met rundvlees of kip en mout, gerst extracten, minerale oliën, vitamine B en ander lekkers voor een smaak die honden lekker vinden. Net als je pint voor jou doet. En omdat alleen het beste is goed genoeg voor onze beste vrienden, Snuffle werd gebrouwen met ingrediënten die worden gebruikt in producten voor menselijke consumptie.
Wanneer de fles stilstaat is het bier helder bruin en een bruine laag bedekt de bodem. Door het schudden van de fles zullen de vlees componenten mengen, waardoor het product donkerder en troeble wordt. Het bier ruikt zoetig en naar gerst en rundvlees.
Hoe opdienen?
Beste bij kamertemperatuur. Open de fles en giet een beetje in een drinkbak, schud de fles om de volle textuur te verkrijgen (met een vinger op de fles opening!) en giet in een vloeiende beweging, zodat je een schuimkraag krijgt zoals bij een echte pint. Serveer in een schone drinkbak. Normaal water, nu een gezonde en lekkere pint bier (www.purrfectdesign.net/nl/snuffle-dog-beer-hondenbier.html).
Our dogs loved beer but it is so bad for them. They were always trying to sneak a sip so we decided to make them beer they could enjoy.
After extensive research of the beer brewing process we developed Dog Beer which is non-alcoholic and non-carbonated, so it is safe for dogs. Even better it is beef flavoured – YUM!
We use human grade ingredients so if you like you could even join them in a dog beer.
Now you can pay back your dog for all that unconditional love.
Now you can finally shout your best friend a beer.
A dog beer! (http://www.dogbeer.com.au/)

Ook in Duitsland is ook een hondenbier te vinden: hunde-bier.
Sinds wanneer deze trend is begonnen kan ik niet helemaal achterhalen (mede vanwege een gebrek aan interesse), maar op biernet vond ik een tekst uit juni 2008:
De Duitse winkelketen voor dierenbenodigdheden Fressnapf heeft zich volgens de krant Die Welt helemaal toegelegd op deze tijdelijke markt. In Nederland is het hondenbier, zover wij weten, nog niet verkrijgbaar.
(www.biernet.nl/nieuws/speciaal-hondenbier-tijdens-het-ek)

In 2015 is Snuffle vanuit België op de Britse markt gebracht: Snuffle, a zero-alcohol Belgian “beer”, is already available across Europe and parts of China and is due to be rolled out at Pets At Home stores in the UK...First launched in the Netherlands in 2009, Snuffle is non-carbonated and made with malt barley extracts, mineral oils and vitamin B in two varieties; basic, with extracts of chicken and beef, and chicken.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the company’s spokesperson, Stefaan Dielens, said: “It’s made in a brewery, so it’s made like normal beer, only we don’t add the alcohol and the last ingredient is beef or chicken. But you can drink it. I’ve had a bottle of Snuffle – it tastes a bit like chicken bouillon.” (www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/01/belgian-beer-for-dogs-launched-in-uk/).


In 2013, an Oregon brewer created “Dawg Grog” after seeing how much his dog Lola enjoyed beer (www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/01/belgian-beer-for-dogs-launched-in-uk/). Daniel Keeton, who works in the tasting room at Boneyard Brewery in Bend invented “Dawg Grog” after seeing how much his dog Lola enjoyed beer.
Described as “a healthy, nutritional, liquid treat for your best friend”, the non-alcoholic beer is made from organic, low sodium vegetable broth, spent grain from Boneyard Brewery, water and glucosamine powder containing ginger, cinnamon, flax seed and honey (www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2013/01/us-brewer-launches-beer-for-dogs/).



2012:
The Brandling Villa in South Gosforth, Newcastle, decided dogs should not miss out on the craft beer revolution currently sweeping the country and now offers the non-alcoholic, beef-flavoured beer for its customers’ furry friends.
The drink is made with beer ingredients of malt and hops, but also includes meat extract.
It is clearly going down well with the local pet population, as the pub had to order in fresh stock after its first 48 bottles ran out within a fortnight.
Not everyone’s pet is a fan, however. Pub manager Dave Carr told The Daily Mail: “It tastes of beef.
Other dishes for pets on the menu include “Chicken a la Franc” – a dog version of chicken chasseur; “Eggs Ladybird” named after chef Sammy Dee’s own dog; and a Sunday roast with “cat” gravy – a beef stock with fish sauce.
“I scoped the internet looking for ridiculous stuff, and we became dog-friendly. There aren’t many pubs you can go to with your dog,” explained Carr. “The dogs were drinking water and eating biscuits, so we also created a dog menu, designed for dogs but based on traditional English dishes.”
The beer at the Branding Villa is not the first brew made especially for dogs. Bowser Beer (pictured above) is made in Phoenix, Arizona, US, from beef or chicken broth with malt barley. It is non-alcoholic, has no carbonation and also free from hops which can be toxic for dogs (www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/01/pub-sells-beer-for-dogs/).

2013:
The Moon Under Water craft brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, is a local favorite for its German-style, 100% natural beers. Now, the brew pub is offering a beer for dogs.
"During the brewing process, we're pulling off all the sugars out of those grains and we only want the really sugary liquid off of that, and what we're left with at the end is a low sugar, high protein water...often its just getting dumped down the drain," said Clay Potter, the brewmaster at The Moon Under Water, in an interview with CTV News recently. That by-product water has no alcohol or carbonation. Potter adds chicken stock, salmon oil, and glucosamine to it to promote dog health, and voila, a dog beer is born.
Said Chelsea Walker, who co-owns the brewery with Potts, "It has huge potential in a market like Victoria where people love to spoil their pets and have already embraced the craft beer culture. I was already making [dog] biscuits from our leftover brewing grains, then we started looking at more ways to use by-products from the brewing process."
Potts and Walker got the idea for a dog beer two months ago from Arizona, where a company called 3 Busy Dogs has been making Bowser Beer since 2007.
(www.nasdaq.com/article/brewpub-introduces-new-highprotein-chickenflavored-beer-for-dogs-cm265226)

3 Busy Dogs™ was started by Jenny Brown, creating Bowser Beer™ and Bowser Bits™ in late 2007.  From the beginning she was committed to using 100% US made, all natural ingredients.  Her idea was called crazy and bizarre but the popularity of a beer for dogs spoke to the incredible emotional bond people have with their pets.
Starting in pet shops, Bowser Beer found it’s way to beer stores, breweries, and wine shops, as well as pet-related businesses.
The 3 original Busy Dogs were Chewy a Golden Retriever, Casey a Westie, and a Rottie named Dax.  They can be seen on the company logo.  Maggie, an English Mastiff, lived to be a ripe old 14 ½ and was a Busy Dog emeritus, earning a picture on our 6-pack.  Three of these four were rescues and we continue to help support rescue and service dog organizations in different ways.  We have also created exclusive custom labels to give people the opportunity to purchase beer and support a great cause (http://bowserbeer.com/about-us/).

Het hondenbier bestaat dus al sinds 2007. Of is er nog iets op internet te vinden van eerder?

2005:
Sure, there are lots of ways you show your dog you love him: Taking him for a walk, giving him a belly rub, tossing him a few treats...but how about a beer? Well why the hell not, even though they deserve it, you can't give them the same beer you grab from the fridge when YOU want a treat! Alcohol, hops and carbonation are bad for dogs. So, the good kids at DogstarBrewing co. have developed a safe and tasty beer treat for our four legged family members (http://utahbeer.blogspot.nl/2005/11/beer-for-dogs.html).

Dog Star Brewing Company
Established:2004
Main Brands:Happy Tail Ale
Beer?.for dogs? Woof! Hi! My name is Jamie Miller, and I own Dog Star Brewing Company. We make Beer For Dogs. It?s called Happy Tail Ale, and it?s a non-alcoholic, carbonation and hop free beverage for your best friend. It?s packaged in amber longnecks, sold by the bottle or sixpack. We?ve done well in the pet product industry, but have found that we?ve sold the most beer when it?s stocked in liquor or grocery stores. The customer is in the mind set to buy beer, so it?s a no-brainer to pick some up for his dog or to bring some to a party as a gift (www.worldspiritsnetwork.com/detail/dog-star-brewing-company-8829.htm).

Dus het is al ruim 10 jaar nu op de  markt...


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