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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Crime / Chow / Drugs "Have You Ever Really Looked At Your Paws?"

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM

A Columbia City family ended up with a $1500 veterinarian bill last month after their dog sniffed out yet another big stash of pot in Seward Park.

Jen Nestor Waddell says she was walking her dog, Jack—a black lab/dalmatian mix—in Seward Park on May 17th when he ran off into the woods. "Three hours later," Nestor Waddell says, Jack "couldn’t walk, his eyes were unfocused and hazy and he was kind of paranoid."

Nestor Waddell says she took Jack to a veterinarian, who told her Jack had ingested something toxic. The veterinarian induced vomiting in the dog and, according to Nestor Waddell, found a “very large amount” of pot in the dog's stomach, although she did not know exactly how much. Jack is fine now, Nestor Waddell says.

After contacting police about the incident, Nestor Waddell also called the Audubon Society, which runs an environmental center in Seward Park. According to an email sent out after the incident, the Audubon Society told Nestor Waddell that police had also recently recovered several garbage bags of pot and a "large bag of crack cocaine" from the park. The Audubon Society could not be reached for comment.

Parks are apparently the new place to stash drugs. In April, Seattle police recovered five and a half pounds of weed in a duffel bag in Seward Park. At a community meeting in the North Precinct earlier this month, Seattle Police also warned neighbors that drug dealers may be stashing large quantities of drugs in wooded areas, parks and greenbelts around Seattle. Be on the lookout, frugal pot smokers.

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Bad dog.

Posted by Greg on June 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Dammit, all I ever find are beer bottles full of piss.

Posted by Geni on June 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM

Does Seward Park have an off-leash area? Not according to their web site. Bad dog owner. Keeping your dog on-leash helps prevent them from eating something out of your sight.

Posted by ay1ene on June 10, 2009 at 2:01 PM

how 'bout a group walk through the woods for next month's slog happy?

Posted by scary tyler moore

on June 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM

I've been saying it for years...if you chase all the gays out of the parks, the drug dealers take over.

Posted by michael strangeways

on June 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM

@4: I'm not terribly thrilled about the possibility of finding a drug stash... much like a bear cub, you don't want to be there when its guardian comes looking for it.

Posted by Greg on June 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM

funny headline!

Posted by MEC on June 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM

@4 Pinic? Sounds like a plan to me!
Oh and Greg @6 in reguard to the bear situation you dont have to worry about being able to outrun the bear you just have to be able to outrun at least one other slogger and you will be fine...

Posted by Tina on June 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM

I was thinking of trying geocaching in Seward Park but this seems much more lucrative.

Posted by thegeneral on June 10, 2009 at 2:44 PM

@8: You're right, the analogy isn't totally applicable... bears don't have guns, for one thing.

Posted by Greg on June 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM

@10 Greg if you are going to be right all of the time this relationship is never going to work... sigh.

Posted by Tina on June 10, 2009 at 3:00 PM

who cares if you can have them off-leash? it's the freakin' forest. Bad blogger ay1ene!!

Posted by rusty on June 10, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Price of admission, babe.

Posted by Greg on June 10, 2009 at 3:52 PM

My dog knows to bark twice for the kind, once for the shwag...

Posted by Bhammer on June 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM

Apparently I'm the only mammal in Seattle that can't find it.

Posted by Michael Skarn on June 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM

@12 It doesn't matter if it was in the woods. If it's a public park then your dog should be on-leash except for in a designated off-leash area. I'm just saying, that's the law, and if the dog had been on-leash then he wouldn't have eaten the weed and saved the owner a trip to the vet. What if the dog had found and eaten that bag of crack instead? He'd have died. It's just in the dog's best interest to be under control at all times.

Posted by ay1ene on June 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM

aylene, the dog did not die and is now fine. Instead of harping on breaking the leash law, perhaps you should focus your anger on the idiots who decided to use a public park for drug trafficking.

Posted by wendy on June 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM