Dog dies just hours after eating 'substance' on footpath

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Heartbroken dog owners have told how their pet died within hours of eating something it picked up from a footpath.French Bulldog Holden was out walking near Doonfoot in Ayr on Tuesday, March 7, when he snapped up an unknown substance from the road.Within moments, Holden, seven, struggled to stand up while his eyes "rolled back in his head".Desperate owner Leanne Helm, 31, rushed Holden to the vets within 15 minutes, but he tragically died despite experts battling to save his life.Leanne told the Record: "We are absolutely devastated.

The whole thing happened so fast."Whatever it was, it acted in Holden's system within minutes and even though we got him to the vets quickly, they just looked at him and said straight away that he was in a bad way."After they ran tests we were told it didn't look like a normal poisoning due to how fast it happened and the severity of it.

Their words were that they thought it was 'something really sinister'."His heart-rate was high, but his liver function was fine.

The vets said it was his brain it went for. They think it might have been drugs that he had eaten."They treated him with Naloxone, which is used to reverse opioid effects in humans, but that didn't work."They told us to prepare for the worst and they worked on him for three hours.