WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 — With marijuana now legal in many U.S.
Tasia Ludwik, a critical care specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Veterinary Medical Center, in St.
Dogs, not surprisingly, account for most marijuana poisonings, though cats, ferrets and horses sometimes fall victim, too.
In general, vets can readily spot the signs and symptoms of a “pot puppy,” according to Dr.
It’s a scary situation for owners, the vets said, since they often think their pup is suffering a life-threatening condition.
In the new study, published online April 20 in the journal PLOS ONE, most vets did not report any changes in the number of marijuana poisonings they’d seen in recent years.
That’s in line with studies from the past few years that have found rising rates of cannabis poisoning among pets in the United States and Canada.
Both Ludwik and Rozanski cautioned against that, saying people should only give their pets medicines that have been prescribed by their vet.
But a short hospital stay is needed in some cases — when an animal has a particularly low heart rate, for example.
However, Khokhar said, it’s hard to know whether marijuana, per se, was to blame.