For some reason I started thinking of this just a few minutes ago.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you had a mound of cocaine on the floor. Don’t ask me why. Maybe you’re tony montana and can afford this much, and you don’t care if it gets dirty.
Say you have a dog or a cat. Animals, when confronted with new things, often try to sniff them.
So, if a dog or cat starts sniffing at your coke mound, will they immedialty get high from it? Will they start coming back over and over to sniff it? Or will they just take a sniff and walk away, deciding “It’s not dangerous and it’s not food, so I don’t care”?
I’m not asking anyone to try this out, for various reasons. I’m just curious what would be the likely result here.
You only need to see the behaviour of cats around catnip or pigs around fermented apples to get your answer. Animals are like, well animals, when they get access to something pleasurable. They’ll keep doing it.
The other unasked part of the question is whather coke would have any such effecton a dog or cat. I don’t know but every species responds to drugs differently. Humans are immune to catnip, dogs have a fatal reaction to active drug in chocloate and so forth. It’s entirely possible that dogs and cats would be eihter immune to cocaine or else it would rapidly kill them.
Considering that scientists deliberately addict rats to various drugs including cocaine, I think that a dog or cat can definitely have a reaction to it, though the effective dose (and the overdose) would probably be a lot lower than it is for a human, unless it was a very large dog. Also specific animals probably have greater built-in dependencies to things or greater tolerances–do you get high on catnip? But I think cocaine is probably one of those drugs that is effective for any species; it obviously works on rats, who are very physically different from humans.