Posted on 02/26/2014 8:36:17 AM PST by Morgana
DENVER (CBS4) – An animal hospital in Denver is seeing an increasing number of dogs who have eaten edible marijuana and is finding that the diagnosis isn’t good.
VCA Animal Hospital is open 24 hours a day and they see hundreds of dogs every week from checkups to emergencies. Since Jan. 1 the clinic says dogs have been getting into their owner’s supply of marijuana, specifically edibles.
“What we are seeing is dogs getting into the baked products,” said Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald.
The concern is that edibles have a concentration of marijuana meant for controlled human consumption and dogs weigh far less than humans and have no control.
“The butter gets a higher concentration of THC, the active ingredient,” said Fitzgerald.
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I always hear about chocolate being so bad for dogs, but I used to give my dogs scrap chocolate all the time and never saw any problem.
No, chocolate can kill dogs.
My dogs (Labrador Retrievers) always wanted to eat anything, all the time. Jeez, if they got the munchies on top of that I don’t know what I would do. They’d probably start eating the couch. (Like they did when they were puppies.) This time they’d likely ask for ketchup too.
Not my aunt’s Jack Russell. He ate a whole box of chocolate covered cherries and showed no signs of trouble.
I had a german shepherd named Zappa that I trained to fetch me beer out of the fridge. The door had a magnetic closure, and was leveled to close itself. We tied a dishtowel on the handle, and laid the cans on the bottom shelf. One day I came home and found all the cheese wrappers on the floor ... removed the towel. Silly critter.
Had a bull mastiff named Scooter that would wait for me to set a beer down while working on the truck or gardening. He’d knock it over with his nose and slurp it off the ground. Special fun if you’re laying under the truck and he’s uphill from you. Scooter was also the fireworks prevention dog. He hated firecrackers and got to the point that if he heard your bic lighter, he’d charge up and take it out of your hand. A dog you can’t drink beer and smoke around ... not quite my idea of a perfect pet, but he made up for it in other ways.
I had another shepherd named Kaiyser that ate a 10 pound block of candle wax while he was staying in the garage one night. My dad said he would be okay, then suggested I feed the dog some string and sell the candles.
My wife's dachshund got into her stash, well before we ever met. My wife came home from work one night, and the pup was laying on the floor, barely breathing. She picked her up and took her to the e-vet.
After about 20 minutes, the e-vet came out and asked, "Ma'am, we're really not trying to get you into any trouble, but we're curious if it's possible that your pup got into marijuana?"
My wife, a light coming on in that moment, admitted that it was more than likely that's what happened, and the little buds in between the doxie's teeth were a dead giveaway. They gave her some IV fluids and sent her on her way with orders to let her "sleep it off."
When my wife got home, she'd noticed that the doxie got up on the couch, crawled over to the coffee table, opened her stash box, and had helped herself to the pot. There was about 1/8th oz. missing, she surmised. The doxie is still alive and kicking today at 14 years young and doesn't miss a beat when it comes to meal times.
If they got into the Raisin-Onion Pot Brownies, that would really be bad.
One of mine likes Sierra Nevada. After I finish a bottle he’s always licking the bottle top. He doesn’t find much other than a few drops but he keeps trying.
Well that made me smile.
“He ate a whole box of chocolate covered cherries and showed no signs of trouble.”
Yeah, but there is not a lot of chocolate, by weight, in those I think. If they were solid chocolate, he might have been done for.
Not if it was milk chocolate. Likely the dog would at most have an upset stomach.
It’s the bakers chocolate with the high percentage of cacao that you have to watch out for (at least as I understand it).
Milk chocolate will still kill a dog if they eat enough, especially a small dog like a Jack Russell.
Milk chocolate will still kill a dog if they eat enough, especially a small dog like a Jack Russell.
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Absolutely.
A jack russell (about 14 lbs on average) would have to eat nearly a pound of milk chocolate to reach toxic levels. 1 oz of milk chocolate per pound of body weight is what I’ve read.
Yeah, I watch that my Yorkie never gets chocolate, grapes, raisins, onion, etc. He loves peanuts but some other nuts are bad for them.
Sorry - should have included these
http://www.talktothevet.com/ARTICLES/DOGS/chocolatetoxic.HTM
http://www.dogownersdigest.com/news/library/chocolate-dog-poisoning.shtml
I’m not a vet, just a guy who has always had dogs, but most of the web resources are consistent with the 1 oz of milk chocolate per pound of body weight to be toxic.
Marijuana, one thing I don’t have to worry about in my house! Lol
Thanks for ping Joe.
What does it say when so many here think this is ‘no big deal’ or worse, think it’s funny?
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