Hypothetically, what would happen if a cat ate some pot?

Let’s imagine that there is a pile of imaginary weed on a table, enough for about two imaginary joints, and that an imaginary cat found it and ate most of it and is now acting, er, stoned. Should her imaginary owners be concerned? Would it be potentially harmful?

This reminds me of the time my friend hypothetically fed his dog some hypothetical vodka. It hypothetically was out cold for two days but then hypothetically it was okay after that.

This reminds me of the scene in Spider-man 2 where Peter is talking about his dream of climbing walls…

IANAV, but I imagine a very small amount would be harmless. However, cats have a significantly smaller body mass than humans, so two joints to a cat is more like 20.

I think you should imagine taking your imaginary cat to the imaginary vet and making up an imaginary story about how your imaginary friend accidently exposed your imaginary cat to some imaginary pot.

As a thought experiment, my hypothetical relative through marriage imaginarily exhaled a giant pretend hit into my Schrödinger’s cat’s face. I speculate that the cat was extremely mellow for a few hours.

Eating two whole imaginary joints though, that sounds like a lot, if it weren’t entirely counterfactual.

I have seen marijuana listed as a plant that can be toxic to cats. I’d take the cat to the vet. The vet isn’t going to call the cops on you- he or she probably has better things to do.

My imaginary dad has told me imaginary stories about how he and his imaginary friends use to get some imaginary pot and then get an imaginary garbage bag and put an imaginary cat in it and then they would imaginarily blow the imaginary pot smoke into the imaginary bag to get the imaginary cat high. He said the worst that ever happened to the imaginary cat was that it was imaginarily stoned and would go eat some imaginary food and take an imaginary nap for awhile.

That’s my imaginary anecdotal evidence.

These two sites say that the marijuana plant is toxic. The first also has tips to induce vomiting.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

But yeah a vet should probably get involved.

I’m no expert on the feline digestive system but if the subject was human the high wouldn’t be that great.

In fact, it would be very poor. When eating weed the recommended procedure is to heat it with butter so that the fats can absorb the THC. The cannabinoids are also soluble in other substances, such as alcohol, but not in water. For this reason cannabis tea, for example, is a very inefficient way of ingesting the product. Unless there’s some problem cats have with weed that human’s don’t, I’d imagine it would be OK.

Your cat may vary.

If nothing else, the owner should try to keep the cat cool. Cat’s don’t sweat; they lick themselves all over so the saliva will cool them as it evaporates. Can’t do that with a dry mouth. (Same applies to dogs, who cool themselves by panting.)

What would happen if an imaginary person imaginarily ate some imaginary catnip? :slight_smile:

If you noticed it in time, call the vet and get instructions on how to induce vomiting. I understand hydrogen peroxide is a common way to do it - your (or any) vet can give you the actual dosage and technique.

If it’s too late for that, I’d still call the vet and seek advice.

This is the first I ever heard of it being toxic to a cat. Back in 1975, my cat ate a similar amount once while I was at work. He ate all his food and had the nerve to try to tell me he wasn’t responsible for the shredded sandwich bag or the missing contents thereof. He didn’t really appear to suffer at all and was back to normal the next day.

But if I saw all these other posts, I might call a vet for advice.

The cat would then have some pretty heavy imagination sessions.

However, I do know if a fictitious dog were to eat a fictitious $50 bag of pot, and an identical fictitious bag with a completely torn out bottom is found, and said dog is punished, a fictitious sack will be found three months later while moving. Have you tried moving yet?

“Friend’s” cat. “Friend’s.”

Specifically, a friend named Schrödinger.

Thanks for the advice/anecdotes. We’ve been keeping an imaginary eye on our imaginary cat, and she seems to be perfectly fine, albeit slightly stoned.

An imaginary cat I know was rumored to have been so weird partly because as a kitten he accidentally ate some imaginary magic mushrooms. I don’t know about that, but the hypothetical animal was fucked up in the head, no doubt about it. If he were real, that is. Which he may or may not be.

I once saw a fraternity dog that had ingested about an ounce of weed. I administered an emetic (apomorphine, IIRC) and the dog vomited up its gastric contents. The owner and his gf stood staring at the vomitus, then he said, “so, I guess that just gets thrown out, huh.”.

Hah! I would have tried “Nah, just dry it out.” to see if he was stupid enough to buy it.

It’s a cat. How can anybody tell?

When it bumps into walls.

You would have a can of potted cat? :smiley: