Dion Lambrecht Finne and his dog, Kolento, like to take walks often.
Like most pups, Kolento is a curious little dog who likes to sniff around at things as he goes. On one of their latest walks, the dog happened to eat something he saw on the sidewalk in Copenhagen. Finne didn’t even notice it at the time because the dog picked it up so fast. He said:
“He’s very fast at eating stuff. That’s just kind of what he does.”
Finne left for work later that morning and didn’t think much of it.
When he got home, Kolento wasn’t acting like his normal self. There was clearly something wrong with him. Finne explained:
“He was walking in a circle. He couldn’t focus. His head was spinning. He didn’t respond to anything I was saying. Normally, he welcomes me when I come home, but he didn’t do that.”
Finne had never seen his dog like this before, and he wasn’t sure what to do about it.
He monitored Kolento for a while, but he seemed to get worse. He decided to call the vet. He said:
“I was very scared and panicked. I was looking at him saying, ‘Please come back. Please come back.’”
The vet didn’t have good news about Kolento, and Finne’s heart was broken. He added:
“She said it was probably something neurological, something with the brain. It was heartbreaking to hear. I thought he was gone. I thought I was going to have to say goodbye to my dog.”
The vet decided to keep the dog for a while to make sure it wasn’t something else.
She called Finne to let him know what was going on. Finne said:
“Then the vet called me and said she wanted to do a drug test on the dog. She asked if there was any chance if he ate some cannabis. I answered, ‘No, definitely not.’ Then the drug test showed that he was positive for cocaine, methamphetamine, and amphetamine.”
Finne couldn’t believe it, he wasn’t sure where the dog would have gotten into the drugs.
Then, he remembered the walk. He figured that Kolento must have found it and ate it while they were on their walk earlier that morning. He was shocked but also relieved that the dog could be treated and would get better.
“I thought it was at least treatable. He could get better. I was just happy that we had an explanation. We didn’t have to put him to sleep.”
Kolento was treated and allowed to go home. Finne was so glad to have his dog home with him. He was even happier when the dog started acting like his old self again. He said:
“Later that night, he started drinking for the first time. He ate something too. He stopped shaking so much. For two or three days after, he seemed very depressed and cautious. He couldn’t fall asleep. After that, he fell into a deep slumber. When he woke up, he seemed much more relaxed.”
Finne is now more careful when he walks his dog.
He didn’t realize he had to worry about someone dropping drugs on the ground and for Kolento to ingest them. He is glad the dog didn’t eat more, as things could have been much worse.
He said:
“I don’t expect drugs to be everywhere. I could never have imagined that something like this would happen, but now we’ve proven that it can happen. So, people should definitely be aware of it.”
He is also glad that a child didn’t come along and pick it up.
It’s scary to think that people are just leaving drugs in places where they can so easily get picked up by innocent kids or animals. He added:
“I don’t know why anyone would throw drugs like that on the ground, but apparently it happens.”
Luckily, Kolento is healthy and happy today. He is back to his old self and still enjoys taking morning walks. Now, Finne is more careful about where they walk and what’s on the ground around them.
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