A dog in Chicago county passed away after it ingested a mystery white substance that she found in a bag in the middle of the snow.
The family first noticed that Riley, their 13-year-old labradoodle was acting weird on Thursday. Bill Fredrickson, her owner then decided to go outside to check if their dog had found or ingested something it shouldn’t have. He didn’t find anything.
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Just kind of bobbing its head, trying to gain focus. My son actually had to carry it into the house and she kind of stumbled into the kennel
Bill Fredrickson
They rushed the girl to an emergency room and left her there to recover overnight.
He continued his search outside the house the next morning and found a fast-food bag with a small hole in it. The bag had some white powder in it, at first he assumed it was just snow so he thought nothing of it.
However, when the 21-year-old daughter saw the bag, she immediately knew what it was thanks to her training as a first responder. She told her dad that the white substance was not snow, but meth.
They called the Sheriff’s county right away.
There was about 80 grams of meth in a baggie inside of the fast food bag the dog had gotten into. This is very uncommon.
The dog had went over to a ditch near a road grabbed a fast food bag that had some cookie crumbs in it, which is kind of what attracted the dog to the bag, and the dog brought the bag home,
Sgt. Kyle Puelston.
The meth in that bag is estimated to be worth $7,800!
Unfortunately, Riley had to be put down later. Something which has shocked and angered the family sons who had just welcomed the dog home as a Christmas present.
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Our heart goes out to the family. We hope the police catches whoever dumped the drugs near their house and caused the death to this innocent dog.
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