Only in Hamilton

Stuff reports:

Drugged dogs being brought in for treatment – including in one case a chihuahua high on marijuana – are worrying Hamilton vets.

Veterinarian Julie Lavis said the tiny canine nearly died from hypothermia when it was brought in to the After Hours Veterinary Hospital in Hamilton scared and “in a bad way”.

Roaches [the butts of cannabis joints] had been regularly left on a coffee table and the chihuahua had developed a fetish for eating them – and loved the taste of cannabis.

This story had to be either in Hamilton or New Plymouth.

It does remind me of a party in Dunedin when I was a student, where the cannabis was so rife in the room that the cat got stoned and literally started climbing the walls. It was good at it too. It would make it sway to the ceiling, and then get puzzled about how to walk upside down on the ceiling and fall back down.