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"A busy week, I've seen 10 to 12 cases," said Dr. Nathanial Stewart of VCA Pacific Avenue Animal Hospital in Tacoma. "I saw a beagle once that ate an entire Ziploc baggie full of marijuana buds."
"It can trigger seizures, coma, or even death," Stewart said of canines ingesting the plant.
Vets said THC toxicity can be treated in dogs if the symptoms are identified early.
"[You could] also smell from her breath that it smelled like marijuana," said Dr. Ruby Donnaway of the Affordable Animal Emergency Clinic in Seattle. "There are weeks where we're pretty much seeing it every single night."