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Vets Face Stoned Pets, Pot Plots Best Bet!
Posted by FoM on August 05, 1999 at 06:42:18 PT
Canadian Press, Nelson, B.C. 
Source: Edmonton Journal
Veterinarians are beginning to wonder if some of the pooches around here are high on something more than a dog's life.
Since May, vets in this Kootenay region have dealt with 10 medium to large dogs who returned from walks with their masters in an area near some railway tracks not feeling quite themselves."The dogs exhibit similar symptoms in that they are kind of spaced-out," explained Dr. Moira Drosdovech at the Selkirk Veterinary Hospital."Their pupils are dilated, they're off balance, they're just not themselves. It's almost like what you would see if you had given them a narcotic, but we're not exactly sure."Dr. Theresa Hart at Cottonwood Falls Animal Clinic has seen five sick dogs since May.Hart said the dogs come into the clinic in a hallucinogenic stupor with a low heart rate, low body temperature, and act as if they are going to have a seizure."My inclination is that it's not a deliberate poisoning," she said. "It's just something they are getting into," Hart said.Hart said the cause could be a fungal toxin found on mushrooms or near water sources.But Dr. Andrew Jones at the Nelson Animal Hospital said it's possible the dogs have managed to sniff out a hillside marijuana grow operation and simply helped themselves."The dogs take off through the woods and they come back and they have gotten into something they shouldn't be into, whether it's someone's private stash or whatever," said Jones, who's seen three such dogs.Jones said his own dog once broke into an illicit pot plot in a neighbour's yard in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond."I got to see all the signs of marijuana poisoning," said Jones. "He was much the same as these dogs. You call his name and he looks up to the sky and walks to the back of the yard."August 5, 1999Edmonton Sun
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Comment #1 posted by whocares on May 18, 2000 at 18:31:08 PT:
sick dog
My dog consumed a discarded marijuana cookie.She showed signs of heavy drooling, non-responsive,almost seizure like status. She is a small dog.Is there any hope he may survive , or if he does, will he have brain damage? What should I do?Worried Sick
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