Double Bay vets Dominic Barfield and Richard Malik have written to the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery about a local Himalayan cat brought to them with dilated pupils and a racing heart—the victim of cocaine it had found at its owner’s house, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
After the vets confirmed the eight-month-old cat had suffered a cocaine overdose, authorities were alerted. The animal was swiftly dumped from the Newcastle Knights squad.
Woollahra mayor Keri Huxley has told The Daily Grind that the story has lifted the number of Google results for “double bay” and “cocaine” to 859.
“We’re hoping for 1000 by the end of the year,” she told us, “are you publishing this online?”