Dog rushed to vets after eating cannabis leaves on daily walk

By Adam Dutton via SWNS

A pet dog was rushed to the vets after she ate cannabis leaves dumped at a beauty spot - months after the "laid back" pooch swallowed a spliff on the same path.

Vets told the owner of Bedlington Terrier Holly she must have eaten the illegal drugs on her daily walks.

"I'd taken her for her usual walk and let her off and she'd gone sniffing behind a bush," said David, 58, from Cannock, England.

"I called her back and when we got in the car she didn't look right and she smelled strange."

The one-year-old mutt fell ill hours after wolfing down cannabis leaves which had been dumped under a bush.

She threw up and worried owner David Williams recognized the half-digested leaves and rushed her to a local vet who gave her anti-drug injection.

"I recognized it as cannabis because we've had a lot of anti-social behavior around here so I know what cannabis smells like," David said.

"When she brought up the leaves it confirmed my suspicious and I took her to the vet again.

“I have to say, she is a very laid back dog anyway but this time she was off her legs. We actually think she'd make a very good sniffer dog."

Incredibly, it was just four months after Holly needed tablets to flush out her system after she ate a half-smoked cannabis joint.

“Four months ago she got ill after swallowing a discarded cannabis joint. We took her to the vets and they gave her tablets," David said.

“This time she’d obviously eaten too much of the drug and she needed an injection and we were told to check her regularly overnight.

"I just couldn't believe it had happened so soon after she swallowed the cannabis joint. My friends and family joke that Holly’s got a drug problem."

Holly’s latest brush with pot happened while David took her on a walk around Calf Heath Reservoir near Cannock last Friday (Nov 19).

David, who has one grown-up son and lives with wife Jonanne, 47, reported it to police and is now warning other dog owners about the dangers of discarded drugs.

“Dog walkers need to be extra cautious, I won’t be going down there again," he said.

“My wife was horrified when me and Holly got home. She’s her little baby and she was so sick.”

A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: “A man reported that his dog had found and consumed cannabis left along a lane leading to Calf Heath Reservoir on 19 November.

“Police issued the man with safety advice and told him that the local council is responsible for removal of any waste products.”