To toke your pet up or not to toke your pet up that is the question!

Hello! Eight years when we got our dog Sundance I figured it would be a good thing not to toke him up. (with weed) So I didn’t and I made sure my sons or their friends didn’t.

The main reasons I didn’t want Sundance high was because I didn’t know how pot and a dogs brain got along (maybe it was a bad trip for a dog) Also I knew there were a lot of dangers around here 8 years ago (cougars, weasels and bears – oh my)

So I figured Sundance would have to stay sharp. Another reason I didn’t want him getting to like pot was because I grew pot and figured he would munch out on them.

Sundance turned out to be my pot growing helper and once stayed quietly by my side while a police helicopter circled above.
(pretty good for a straight dog ay!)
Now a days we have a new puppy and I am starting to think I should give the hyper little bugger a puff or two ever now and then. Our new puppy will not have the same dangers or duties as Sundance did so I truly am wondering if it would be good or bad to give him a toke.

 

i'm not a dog psycologist or vet & i cant say what weed does to dogs but a friend of mine, his dog ate a lump of draw once when he was a puppy. he said after about an hour he started making funny noises & then went all drousy. he just wanted to chil out & not be touched are anything. if you shouted his name he would just look & lay his head back down. even if you poured his dry food in to a bowl he would not come. but after abut 6 hours he ate & drank alot, he seamed kinda ok while he was stoned & afterwards. i dont know what would happen if you blew it in his face but i dont think it would be a good idea. all puppies are hyper, their young just like our children have lots of energy & like to play.

 

Hello! I thank you for the reply and thought the photo was a nice bonus. Since posting this topic I have decided not to toke my puppy up. He will be more of an inside dog so he might get caught in a smoke cloud ever now and then though. I’m not a doctor but it sounds like your friends dog almost over dosed.

I am curious of how much of a dosage it took to get that dog so messed up. I am pursuing draw is weed but don’t know how big a lump is.

(we use Imperial measurement on Vancouver Island)

This is way off topic but I am also curious of how much a lump goes for in England. We can get it for $100 for an ounce but you have to be a member of the co-op. Cheers

 

well, I've got a few of my aminals high (cats and dogs), back when I was a new-ish stoner
now that I've matured, I wouldn't do it for the smae reaosn you didn't
for cats however, it makes them real paranoid usually, and it's kinda more liek coke for them it seems
and for dogs, they just get rela lazy and boring =P

but my firned was growing in a terarium that he kept his iguana in
and the iguana started eating it, and then he fed him some baked beans, and it died
I think it was the baked beans, but you can't be too sure =P

 

Do yourself and the dog a favor and don't. I believe being under any controled substance should be a personal decision and since dogs cannot understand the effects to make such a decision it shouldn't happen. In fact, I would say that is animal abuse. It's not cool nor is it funny. How would you feel about getting a young child stoned? What if your animal got sick? What would you do? Do you know the effects it could lead to?

 

Hello! Thank you Duck and Frieden for your replies. I am not going to toke my new puppy up and I am going to try to keep him out of smoke clouds. When I first posted this topic I was a little scared that people would either think me square for not toking my pets up or they would think I was a beast for even thinking about getting my pets high! Any way the replies showed me that when it comes to our pets we are a pretty protective animal.

 

Sometimes when I smoke my dog will come in the room and hang out. When she's had enough she will leave. I never force it on her, and she doesn't seem traumatized by the situation. I had a cat that would come running to me every time she heard my lighter. She would jump around in my smoke cloud. I never forced it on her either. I think it depends on the animal. If they don't like the smoke, they will leave the room.

 

the dog was fine, after that day whenever my mate smoked he would come in & sniff the smoke right up but now he is an older dog he aint botherd anymore.

he ate just under a quarter of draw, draw is solid weed that you have to burn to make soft & the crumble in to a joint, or rub it on a nutmeg grider. draw dosent get you as stoned as weed but is much cheaper. an 8th (i think we use imperial measurements for weed here too) of green is £20 so $45.33CAD, & a quarter of draw is £12.50 so $28.32CAD. you get more draw for your money but have to smoke more of it to get high. now its really crap stuff & has alsorts mixed in with it but when my mates dog ate his lump it was about 6 year ago when draw did not have crap mixed with it. it burns at a higher temp too so gives you such a sore throat. now you get more stoned for you money with weed.

 

I have a dog who would eat a pound of chocolate, a bushel of grapes, and drink a 6 pack of beer if I would let him. Just because they do it doesn't make it good for them. Dogs are smart but their intuition isn't that great to always know what's good for them and what's not all the time. It's not really a matter if they like it or not more so as it is if it's good for them or if it presents any danger to them. That's just my perogative though

 

My mom's fucker of an ex-boyfriend used to get my cat stoned alll the time, and I think it fucked with my poor kitty's head. She will just freak out randomly, twitch, and has really weird mood swings. I don't know if it is all because of the pot, but I bet it didn't help.

 

Hello! All the posts above this one showed compassion and respect to animals. So maybe we should all go give your mom's
ex-boyfriend a head butt in behalf of your cat.

 

I really don't think the dog getting a mild contact high is terribly dangerous. I think tick-dips and things like that are far more dangerous, yet people subject their animals to that stuff all the time.

It all comes down to common sense. If the dog gets high and has an adverse reaction-don't get the dog high again. Simple as that.

 

I dont think you should get your dog high, period.

nor should you feed it a pound of chocolate.

dogs and cats and other pets do not have well developed brains like you and I (sometimes I wonder about certain people) and they cant discern whats good for them or what is not. humans on the other hand do know what is good and what is bad for them....... I dont think its right for anyone to give their pets anything which could be harmful for them. it is animal abuse. dogs and cats may be just attracted to the sweet smell of ganja, yet they dont know the effects it could have on them, nor do you know either.

nor should you let your dog drink alcohol.

 

Do NOT get your pets high. The End.

 

i really wouldn't get your animal stoned at all
i don't think its a good idea my self
if you can avoid it then please do so
if it can cause all sorts of mental problums in himans imagine what it could do to your animals?

 

sorry about that i meant humans
hahahaa

 

Interesting thing, in the wild, animals choose to medicate themselves all the time. It's a well studied and published fact.

Also, humans in early history observed animals in the wild medicating themselves and anyway that is how we learned how to use certain medicinal plants. Same with some foods...

Forcing marijuana use onto any being is abuse. Some posters talked about how their fellow pet animal companions "chose" to partake in the use of marijuana by overtly walking into the smoke cloud. Domesticated animals happened to have the ability to follow natural instincts just like their wild ancestors however, it may be to a varying degree...

I met someone who lived on the coastline of Costa Rica with no resources and observed what the monkeys ate, and ate what they ate, and he lived very well.

 

I would like to argue that nobody/nothing has complete natural instinct. Our natural instincts are in part to our social realm, and the social realm of a domesticated pet and a wild animal are obviously far apart.

A domesticated animal is relient upon us for many things including keeping them in good health and keeping them safe. They do not know the effects of illicit substances, as we do. There is no legit excuse, in my eyes, for getting a pet high.

 

hmmm so wild animals smoked weed out in the forest?? (if their natural instinct is to walk into a smoke cloud) it would be kind of hard, since they didnt devlop fire....... I think humans did that.

 

MC, this is kinda off on a tangent, but you don't necessarily have to smoke marijuana (or other plants for that matter) to feel the effects.