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What do you do if your dog ingests cocaine? How one researcher is trying to protect pets from future accidents
Frontiers in Science ^ | August 17, 2025 | Deborah Pirchner

Posted on 08/18/2025 11:34:50 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Maybe Cocaine Bear could tell us.


21 posted on 08/18/2025 12:10:53 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Red Badger

I just came for the comments from irrational dog owners to say “anyone who leaves drugs around their dogs ought to have cocaine shoved up their noses until they die”.


22 posted on 08/18/2025 12:10:55 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Red Badger

Call the cops on the owner and find a better home for the dog.


23 posted on 08/18/2025 12:23:34 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: FreedomNotSafety
He is dead. Died a couple minutes after eating the cocaine.

The "based on true events" is a bit of a stretch.

Someone dropped a bunch of cocaine that was found by a bear. The bear ate it and the bear died.

No rampage. No dead people. Just poof. Dead bear.

The true events are a 90 second short.

24 posted on 08/18/2025 12:51:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Red Badger

What do you do if your dog ingests cocaine?

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I know

Kick your self in the ass for possessing cocaine first

Then kick yourself in the ass again for leaving it where your pet can get at it.


25 posted on 08/18/2025 12:59:57 PM PDT by cuz1961
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26 posted on 08/18/2025 1:34:45 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Red Badger

Cocaine Bear reminded me more than any other movie in the last 20 years of my childhood favorites in the 1980s. Just campy enough to be fun to watch, just slightly enough creature horror to make my darling bride startle at the jump scares as she watched it next to me, and just enough character development and action that my kids loved it.

Note that these are the same kids who claimed that me watching “The Ghost in the Darkness” (Val Kilmer, based on the lions of Tsavo story) traumatized them for life. I mean seriously, what 10 and 8 year old doesn’t love lions but somehow also at 18 and 20 are thrilled to watch a bear totally mauling an idyllic park???


27 posted on 08/18/2025 4:01:57 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The "based on true events" is a bit of a stretch.

1. Did the cocaine fall out of the delivery vehicle and land in an area with bears? Yes.

2. Did a bear find the cocaine? Yes.

3. Did the bear ingest massive amounts of cocaine? Yes.

4. Was the bear in the country illegally or otherwise part of a politically favored and/or protected class? No, the Endangered Species Act doesn't apply and the bear doesn't have a name that can be put on the register of active voters.

5. Did the bear get high, believe that he could negotiate with a bunch of Eurotrash terrorists that seized Nakatomi Tower, sniffle a lot, and have sudden anger issues? Presumably yes, albeit it was a short ride.

So, it's totally a based on true story and because of #4 it's totally ok to make a movie about it that stretches the events just a little bit...by maybe 88 minutes and 30 seconds. :)

28 posted on 08/18/2025 4:15:06 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: FateAmenableToChange
You forgot that the bear was only eating the cocaine because there was a liberal woman in the woods and he preferred death to having that interaction. :)
29 posted on 08/18/2025 4:23:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Red Badger

This is some good s$#t man, what is it?

Labrador.

Labrador?

Yeah, my dog ate my stash. I had to follow him around for 3 days to get it back.

SPEW!


30 posted on 08/18/2025 4:25:58 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I meant pets...


31 posted on 08/18/2025 5:14:41 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
No rampage. No dead people. Just poof. Dead bear.

The true events are a 90 second short.

Sorta like Cujo would've been if the family was armed...

32 posted on 08/18/2025 5:17:07 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: null and void
Yep.

In fact if people went about armed and actually said what they meant most movies would be very short.

33 posted on 08/18/2025 5:32:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: null and void

Either way works. :)


34 posted on 08/18/2025 5:32:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Red Badger

30 years ago I treated a drug detection Rottweiler that ingested a bag of coccaine. I used diazepam and fluids to control the seizures. There was no protocol for this and I treated each symptom as it presented itself. It was a rough night but the dog, “Tank”, survived to the chagrin of the local druggies in Northeast Mississippi.


35 posted on 08/19/2025 10:33:39 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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I was raised in Hickory Flat..................


36 posted on 08/19/2025 10:34:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: vetvetdoug

Finally an answer to my question of what do you do if.


37 posted on 08/19/2025 6:51:21 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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