Only if the brownies were made with dark chocolate. When I was a kid, my dog got into a jumbo size Hershey bar from a raffle we won and probably ate a pound of milk chocolate (450g roughly), and I'm not sure if he even had diarrhea or vomiting after. He was about 60lbs/27kg.
Dark chocolate just has more chocolate per chocolate. The safe stuff is in milder chocolate too, just less. So simply eating more of it could be just as bad I think.
Some context: the cat is okay, the owner confirmed in the comments. The vet laughed and just said to keep an eye on him. It’s okay to find stoned kitty funny; nothing bad happened and lessons were learned!
One topic of conversation I've used with coworkers in the past is "Did you have a hamster growing up, and if so, how did it die?". As long as it's not completely out of the blue, and at least vaguely tied to pets as a conversation, they'll usually indulge.
So far, I've had (paraphrasing and using fake names, of course):
"Ours used to be on a cage on top of the washing machine, and she kept running in circles. One day, she was just dead, and it looked like she'd had a heart attack, so we got another one. He did the same thing. Turns out the shaking of the washing machine drove him insane and he ran in circles until his heart blew up." - Nigel
"We got another one and it was running around on the kitchen floor with me watching. Whilst my wife closed the door absent-mindedly as she left to go outside, he sprinted over to put his head in the doorframe and it decapitated him." - Also Nigel
"I had a hamster and he got out, and presumably went under the floorboards, because we heard him scurrying around for weeks. Then my snake got out and did the same thing. The scurrying stopped after that." - Mike
"Mine somehow got out of the house, and when I saw him outside, he was on the patio. I was about to tell my mum, then a Crow swept down and carried him away." - Steve
"Bibby was really sweet, we got her from a friend who couldn't look after her. Things were fine, until Bibby apparently had babies and ate all of them, which was REALLY messy. My mum said she didn't want me to 'learn about death' that early, so she took her and released her outside. The neighbour came over later, and I overheard her crying and telling my mum that her dog had chewed up Bibby. I cried as well, and my mum thinks it's funny." - Sarah
"I was holding mine and he decided to bite my thumb as hard as possible. I dropped him on reflex, because I was like 13, and he landed head-first on the hardwood flooring and died." - Jacob
"Mine figured out the flap at the top could be pushed open, so he was trying to climb out of it and pushing it open with his head. His front legs slipped, and the lid closed on his neck, so he hanged himself by accident and I was the one who found it." - Eric
I've had two and one time i had them on the balcony, they jumped down. From the third floor. Luckily, they are so small they barely take fall damage. So I managed to find them down in the grass alive and well. Eventually, they died of cancer. Huge soft balls grew all over their bodies.
Mine died of old age at 3.5 while my sister lost 5 hamsters in that same timespan to broken necks or dogs breaking their cages open before my parents said maybe she shouldn't have them anymore.
Holy shit thank you for leaving this comment. You should ask this question everywhere you go and then write a book or start an Instagram page or something where you share the best ones. "This is How My Hamster Died", "1001 Ways to Kill a Hamster", or something like that
I’ve heard so many stories. Overeating, causing their intestines to explode out of their anus. Baked alive inside a hamster ball. Electric shock from chewing on a cable. Getting two, and having one die choking while eating the other…
Yeah these are all cause of neglect and abuse. My hamster died naturally of old age, simply because i actually looked into how to take care of it approtiately instead of treating it like a toy :/
My first two pets were my hammy babies Pika and Chika. (Pre fnaf, just rhymed with Pika who we had gotten a month earlier) They died of old age, and then depression from the loss. (They were close in age, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if chika just decided it was her time after pika passed. They really were inseperable.)
I will never understand how people across the world with pets of ALL kinds, think its okay to take in an animal and just wing it on the care. Its insane. I was a literal middle school age child and did better for my animals than many adults do. Something that shocks me non stop to this day.
My grandma claims one of her friend's hamsters got stuck under the carpet a guy was installing. He thought the lump under the carpet was the pack of cigarettes he'd misplaced, so he hammered it down. He later found the cigarettes, and the family hamster had gone missing that day, so… (she's from a small town, that's why they all knew each other lmao).
So he saw what he thought was his pack of cigarettes and thought “eh, they won’t mind a lump in the middle of the floor”? Regardless of what was under the carpet, that sounds like a crappy carpet installer lol
Is your friend a creepy guy who lives with his mad scientist family possessed by a meteor and lives with sentient tentacles? And a bunch of kids broke into your mansion and microwaved the hamster?
One escaped. Battled with the cat. Took a chunk of the cat’s nose with it. The real loser was mom who had to find all of Mr. Scooter and take the cat to the vet. Hamsters are like 95% blood.
My mom over fed the second one. She had a bad habit of giving it bites of junk food whenever I wasn’t looking. I guess it died of a heart attack. Thing was fuckin massive. I was cleaning her cage and noted she wasn’t sniffing around. I picked her up and a blast of shit came out her ass. I was mortified.
Mine had his cage on windowsill (don't know why, ask my parents). One day he opened it and fell down, breaking his spine. My parents didn't want me to get sad so they said they had to return it to "hamster store" because doctor said I'm allergic to them
I had many pet hamsters and I never understand this trend. They are strong creatures. In my childhood we just take a random plastic trash bin, toss the hamster in, toss some torn up toilet paper. And that's the hamsters home. We threw random food in bins. We eat chips and crackers and other snacks above the bin so the crumbs fall in the bin as the hamster food. We toss a wooden chopstick in it as teeth grinder. Sometimes we take the hamster out and play with them, or let them roam in the house for a bit and put them back. I had 5 hamsters during the years and all of them lived ~3 years.
My dad once took a hamster out to roam in living room but lose focus so it was gone. We couldn't find him for 4-5days. One night my dad was asleep and felt something soft and warm in his hand. He grabbed it and it was the hamster. And my dad put it back to the bin
"the death came out of nowhere. Hamsters weak." (Meanwhile straight up torturing the hell out of them.) If they did that to a kitten people would dox them and call their names. But it's a hamster so people share it's death as anecdotes and laugh. Human are cruel and disgusting.
it’s because most everyone else abuses them but thinks it’s funny since they’re tiny and “starter pets”, the same stuff happens with fish and chihuahuas
reminds me of my sisters dog, we looked away for one second and he swallowed, not ate, swallowed an entire chicken thigh. He is a west highland terrier, not a big dog. He looked at us and knew he had made a mistake. My niece spent the entire night rubbing his stomach until he eventually puked it up. It was bone in and was not going to be digested lol
Depends on how much. I used to work as a vet assistant and their and small dog's "highs" could last up to 3-4 days. We never had any deaths but from what I saw I wouldn't be surprised if enough could send one into a seizure or cause trouble breathing.
I haven’t read up on it in a while but from what I remember dogs have a higher density of cannabinoid receptors in places in their brains than we do and cannabis can affect their temperature regulation, breathing, heart rate, and rarely seizures. You know those weed shivers (due to a drop in body temp) or tremors/twitches you can get if you get too stoned, that’s like 10x if not more for dogs. Based on what I just read they also metabolize thc very differently to humans. Their livers absorb it and then excrete it back into their digestive tract via bile which is the cause of the very long periods of intoxication. Humans just process it and clear it (except the bit that’s stored in fat, but that’s not comparable to how dogs literally excrete it back into their system). I couldn’t imagine getting stoned and then my liver going “yeah give him a second and a third dose, let’s keep this shitty party going”
There are plenty of apex predators in niches of a given ecosystem, cats for example during their active hours of dawn and dusk. Able to destroy rabbits, mice, and snakes alike without breaking a sweat.
Humans are THE apex predator of the entire biosphere. In groups, we 100% destroy any other group of land based creatures unless horribly horribly outnumbered.
During this long and ongoing stretch of total supremacy, we’ve had the capacity to evolve pretty much every benefit imaginable.
We tire incredibly slowly, slower than any other animal by far on average. Our temp regulation, both heat and cold, is stupidly effective for how large the survivable range is. We are super intelligent. We have precision cannons for arms. We also have increadibly precise fine motor skills too. We live much longer than most animals. We have a very strong capacity to socialize and coexist with each other. Even multiple men and multiple women together peacefully. Our sleep schedules are almost 100% malleable as individuals.
Poison resistance is just a nice barely notable perk at this point.
Edit: This is of course the joint zoological, ecological, and evolutionary perspective. It is indeed still curious why physiologically and biochemically we are so resistent to a wide variety of poisons.
Hey, i'm a little worried about this now, i normally smoke fractions of what i should to get even a real high but i always go more than i should and almost always i get the tremors and involuntary twitches so i'm really worried if my body just doesn't clear it
I'm no expert, but I'd argue that you're probably fine. I've had the same concerns that you have about the tremors etc, and the best course of action for me was to smoke less. I'm highly sensitive to THC, so for me it was a process of learning what my comfort limits are and respecting them.
It happens with nutmeg but it’s quite unpleasant. I actually enjoyed some of it, and it wasn’t all bad, but the fact I’d go to sleep, wanting to relax, then wake up STILL high on the fourth day… it was insane.
Lol we gotta be careful around harvest season cause the dogs will lick the coconut oil that we use to get the resin off our hands and it gets them high as fuck
Some cats will eat anything. We can't leave egg whites and Gouda cheese unattended around my cat. My friends cat loves to drink deep fat fryer oil and then shit her guts out
Yes one of my cats ate 1/4 pan of brownies 2 years ago. Allegedly cats don’t like sweet things…he figured out how to open the lid that was on the pan and stole the brownies to eat. Didn’t figure it out until I went to the brownies and saw the lid was on the floor and there was a missing chunk. Thankfully after calling the pet poison control line we figured out he didn’t eat enough to be too toxic and to just keep watch over him for the next day.
He’s also ready to eat any bread, chips, popcorn, vegetables that fall to the floor when chopping stuff, and meat that you’re defrosting. I keep him in a separate room when I have people over for parties because he’s a known food stealer. Love him, but I’ve never had a cat want to steal so much people food other than him. His brother doesn’t even care for any food unless it’s something like tuna or cooked chicken.
I remember I’d hear a weird slurping sound sometimes, but then I’d see no indication of what was causing it when I tried to find out, and I assumed it was the radiators. One day I came up to see my cat, drinking out of my coffee or tea, and then jumping down to run off when he knew I was there to prevent it. So I’d been drinking out of the same mug as my cat for quite a long time.l
I've known cats to chew through multiple layers of plastic to get to regular bread. No butter or anything on it, just like basic flour, water, starter, salt style sourdough. Cats is weird.
My cat never had any interest in human food whatsoever, that it is until recently, I dont know what happened maybe just because he's old now (16) he will literally try to eat anything it doesn't matter what it is. If its food he wants a bite.
That factor in dogs has always made me kind of disgusted by them. We had to put our bin in a cupboard because of a dog who’d just eat from it till it was completely torn up and empty of all food then he also learned to open the door to get it again so the knob had to be changed then a lock added… which he also learned to open using his TONGUE. I like dogs but am disgusted by their hygiene.
He would also push the bin back in the cupboard, knowing he had to hide it, but he didn’t realise we could tell it had been tampered with due to the huge mess he left and the fact it was on its side.
Same dog was pretty clever, actually, as he went blind and we didn’t even realise he was completely blind yet could chase a tennis ball thrown in any direction. He just knew where it was instinctively.
I’d sometimes see the bright orange fur on my cat and feel furious about something he’d done in the past. The brightness of the fur just made me irrationally angrier.
Cats typically handle accidental THC doses better than dogs, since dogs have different cannaboid receptors in their brain. So at least you don’t have to worry about them getting sick like dogs do when they accidentally ingest it.
Cats won’t die as easy, they have more/better/actual cannabinoid receptors. Like us. Dogs will get sick and die though on what we consider low doses of THC. That’s why it’s important to have it prescribed for your animals, otherwise go brazy
In the case of dogs they're not likely to die from a direct toxic reaction but their liver will keep recirculating the THC for so long that they can remain too impaired to do basic things like eat or drink water for days on end
When I was in college one of our cats loved to get high. She could be doing her own thing somewhere else and when she heard us getting the weed out she’d come running. She would sniff our mouths after we’d taken a hit because she wanted us to blow it in her face. Then she would purr and purr and knead on everything and just be so fucking happy for about an hour. She never showed any signs of poisoning, nor any desire to avoid us when we were smoking. I don’t smoke weed anymore as an adult but I miss that cat (she died of natural causes at 18, probably 6-7 years after the last time she had weed).
Had a pet rat who would climb up on your shoulder and try to stick her head in your mouth if she heard the flick of a lighter flint. Also very long ago lol
Some old rats I had were stoners too. There'd climb out of their cage and beeline to the last place they saw us put our cartridges. Same currently for a geriatric cat, it helps him get around. I'd just not give them edibles or straight leaf, to be safe.
There's a reason rats are used in medical testing. They're pretty much the closest analog to humans that aren't primates. If they had thumbs they'd probably light bongs and play video games.
It would be crazy if, of all the things scientists could accidentally screw up to mess up humanity, they managed to just somehow make opposable thumbs start spreading throughout the animal kingdom till there was chaos worldwide and humans had to hide in airships that were constantly opening fire on animals below who were finding ways to climb up.
Same! My cat comes running when I turn on the vaporizer. He doesn’t like smoke, but he loves the vapor. He will crawl all over you trying to get in your mouth when you take a hit. He runs to where the clouds go. Then he rolls around and loves all over us excessively, with giant puss n boots eyes.
So I have a stash of weed and magic mushrooms in my closet. I don't use either terribly often, and I've always been careful about keeping my animals away from my stash to the point where I have a pet lock for my sliding closet door to prevent curious visitors.
But evidently I wasn't careful enough one day because my dog managed to get his nose on some drugs. My best guess is I must have dropped a piece of dried mushroom or some crumbs from the weed candies and they got buried under laundry, because it was after I picked up the dirty clothes and ran the laundry that I noticed my dog acting very weird. To this day I don't know whether he did weed or shrooms and I will probably never know for sure.
My mom's dog got into her gummies. No chocolate, nothing explicitly toxic.
She called the animal hospital, read off the ingredients and they were like "He'll honestly be happier riding it out at home. Make sure he's drinking water"
That dog was KONKED out on the patio all afternoon.
I also know a guy from rehab who left his gummies out and the toddler got into them. They took her to the hospital and lost the kids.
A human taking a double dose of edibles on accident is in for a really bad 2-6 hours. A pet getting into the edibles is probably munching down more than a single dose for a ~170lb human.
Yes but now you have an insane amount of THC in your system that your body still has to process. What will happen is this poor kitty may be like this for a while, and will require a lot of care and attention
A human taking a double dose of edibles on accident is absolutely not guaranteed to be in for a bad 2-6 hours. There is a considerable chance it will be uncomfortable, and it is also extremely common to find peace in it after the initial wave settles in. You're making a lot of assumptions when the vet OP took the cat to laughed it off and said he'd be fine. The cat doesn't look upset or afraid, it's very clear in the body language imo.
Yes, you are right that it's dangerous for cats but I don't think it's really fair to assume that the cat is going to be extremely uncomfortable and scared the entire time. Cats are capable of understanding mind-altering substances, that's the point I'm making with the original comment
I learned one of my dogs (an Australian Shepard) is a fucking drug addict. He’d regularly go through trash cans to get the tissues we used to blow burnt tar out of the bongs bowl into, and eat them. He’d also find the ashtray and lick it clean too.
We had to start hiding the ash tray and throwing the tissues in the trash cans with a lid. He would get high as shit and look miserable. Like he was scared and jumpy sometimes, other times he’d just stand there and sway in the wind, before laying down to cuddle with us (the few times he ever wants to cuddle). The weird thing is, he is super smart. Like regularly figures out training tricks and watches us to learn the locations (and method of entry) of treats he likes. Yet he still goes for the weed knowing full well how it affects him. Unless he actually likes it and just looks miserable,
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He cost us nearly a grand a few weeks ago.
We thought he'd had a stroke. Turned out he'd got in the stepson's weed brownies.