HAIR of the dog remedies don’t get much better than this.

When Maltese terrier Charlie was just hours away from death, his vets found the lifesaving solution anyone would love to hear: get him drunk.

The curious canine was rushed to the Animal Accident & Emergency hospital last weekend, having licked some coolant in his owner Jacinta Rosewarne’s garage.

Vets realised Charlie had ethylene glycol poisoning, which can cause kidney failure within hours and, left untreated, leads to death.

So they grabbed a bottle of vodka and started feeding it to Charlie through a tube down his nose and then intravenously.

“He was definitely drunk,” Ms Rosewarne said.

“He was stumbling around, I’d go to pat him and he’d push me away like a normal drunk person, he was vomiting a little, whining like a drunk.”

“I thought it was hilarious ... It was distressing but funny at the same time.”

Charlie had 700ml of vodka in two days, a miracle treatment which saved his life but left him with an almighty hangover.

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“He just slept and slept and slept,” Ms Rosewarne said.

“I tried to take him for a walk on Monday but he just sat down after 50m ... I had to pick him up and carry him home.”

Animal Accident & Emergency general manager Dr Scott Hall said he had seen several similar cases, with pure alcohol required to alter the antifreeze chemicals to allow them to be flushed out of an animal’s body safely.

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