SAN JOSE, Calif.—In October 2022, six dogs were brought to a MedVet pet clinic in San Jose for emergency drug treatment after accidentally ingesting methamphetamine while out on walks.
“I’ve never seen this amount of cases in such a short time period,” said Terra Schropp, hospital director with MedVet Silicon Valley.
She said normally doctors at the clinic only see a handful of cases a year, but cases are now “definitely increasing in frequency” with one or two cases a month.
The cases were reported when dogs had gone on walks, commonly near homeless encampments, Schropp said.
“Although that’s not always the fact,” she said….