No sharing, stoners: Vet says pot can kill your dog

No sharing, stoners: Vet says pot can kill your dog

Laura Higgins says weed doesn't equal euphoria for pets.
​Recently, a dog scarfed down a batch of pot brownies her owner purchased at a local medical marijuana dispensary -- a seemingly humorous scenario that quickly proved to be no laughing matter.

The owner "had called all her friends, and at first, they thought it was funny," says Laura Higgins, an emergency veterinarian at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists in Longmont. "They thought the dog would be fine, even though chocolate is toxic for dogs -- that's another issue. But by the time the dog came to me, she was comatose, nearly dead."

Fortunately, the dog survived. But according to Higgins, this incident was hardly unique. She estimates that Aspen Meadow sees cases of cannabis ingestion by pets an average of once a month, and she thinks that rate may increase as medical marijuana becomes more prevalent in Colorado.

Weed toxicity most recently made headlines after a ten-month-old baby had to be hospitalized after eating some of her parents' pot edibles. But pets were left out of the equation until Higgins wrote an essay about the dangers of animals eating marijuana goods.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/04/no_sharing_stoners_vet_says_po.php

I can't imagine that much pot in the brownies.

Dogs and chocolate don't mix.

http://www.dogownersdigest.com/news/library/chocolate-dog-poisoning.shtml

Chocolate is known to be harmful in dogs, THC, certainly not. How silly is this?

It's gotta be in the dozens the amount of times I've watched other stoners blow puff smoke into the ears of dogs and cats back in the day, saying "Fido/FeeFee loves a good stone... and it *really* works!" :P

looks more like the culprit in that instance

Dumbass

pot is specifically non-toxic. I like how the article just kind of bounces over that fact.

then, add weed , poor baby. a good warning to heed, valid or not

Back in 1969 my friend had two beagle-lab cross dogs, named (appropriately, for the time) Martha and Spiro. They got into a quarter pound of his pot one day when he was at class, and ate the whole thing. Dry, with no milk. Then found a jar of cross-tops, and ate that. When my friend got home, Martha & Spiro had almost successfully tried to eat his couch, completely down to the bare frame. Other than that, they didn't seem much the worse for their trip. Of course, maybe that was an extreme example of hybrid vigor.

ON EDIT: I do recall that Martha & Spiro seemed a bit burned out, and were sleeping soundly when he returned from class. Believe it or not, this is a true story. I saw the aftermath and was there when he got home.

OK, nice blog headline :)