Cocker Spaniel Addicted to Licking Toad

I listened this story yesterday and didn’t even think about linking it up here on Dethronoid, despite the fact that it: Involves a dog; Involves psychedelic toads. Clearly my already slack nature was distracted in my investigation into owning a breeding pair of bufo alvaris, or Colorado River Toads. (It looks like too much work for me.)

“Then, late one night after I’d put the dogs out, Lady wouldn’t come in,” Laura Mirsch says. “She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad.”

It turned out the toads were toxic — and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.

The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads [NPR] (Thanks, Topher!)