About halfway through Netflix's Love is Blind—a, well, blind love experiment hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey—things get rather controversial...and it has absolutely nothing to do with the contestants' quests to find true love.
On Episode 6, contender Jessica fires off a lot of questions to Mark, who is 10 years her junior. "I'm someone who wants kids, and I'm no stranger to science," Jessica tells Mark: "So like, I realize that if I want three kids, I probably have to start soon at some point."
Throughout the conversation, there was a hefty pour of red wine in her glass. That's all well and good, but then Jessica began sharing her glass of wine with her dog. To be clear, I'm talking about human wine.
"She just loves wine," Jessica said after doing so. IMO, Mark's lack of response to this serious red flag proved way more alarming than his degree of emotional availableness (which is a gender stereotype if there ever was one). It turns out Twitter also has serious thoughts about this topic, so I know I'm not alone in my concern:
Luckily for us, Brett White from Decider reached out to Cornell professor Karyn Bischoff to find out if giving a dog alcohol is safe or not. The answer is...NO:
Dogs will not be able to understand the connection between drinking alcohol and the buzz they would get, and it could be very frightening for them and cause them emotional distress. As we humans know, alcohol reduces inhibitions and impairs judgement, so it’s possible that the impaired dog could have behavioral changes that could be dangerous for people and other animals around them. And the dog certainly wouldn’t understand why it felt sick the next day.
Folks, please think twice before you give your puppy a glass of wine. Please and thank you.
