Karen Keller, a Calgary resident who works in communications, said that her pug, Hamlet, is so important to her he’s practically her “guardian angel.”

So when she woke up one morning and caught him at the exact moment he’d managed to get a watermelon-flavoured cannabis gummy out of the plastic and into his mouth, she wasted no time yanking it away from the little rascal. Even though she managed to keep him from swallowing it, it wasn’t fast enough, since the sugar coating had been infused with THC.

“Within 10 minutes, my poor little guy not only spontaneously wet himself — and, I mean, it just came out of him without him even flinching — he was also losing his balance and falling over,” she recalled.

She took her “puglet” — still a puppy at the time — to the emergency vet. There, he was put on a saline IV and kept overnight for observation. The vet was pretty certain Hamlet was going to make it but, because he was so little, she was told there was a chance it could have been fatal.

“Even when I got him home the next day, he was still kind of stoned,” said Keller. “He walked right off the deck. Thankfully, he landed on grass and no harm was done.” [Read more at The Toronto Star]