Coked-up kitty

Sure, it’s not every day that you read about a cat high on cocaine having to go to the vets, but perhaps even more bizarre is the fact that the article reads like one of those blind items from a gossip column:

The vets and authors of the report, Dominic Barfield and Richard Malik, tried to take some blood but the party puss was in no mood to oblige.

“Party puss”???

Meanwhile:

The vets rang the owner’s wife, who admitted the cat could have licked “plates of cocaine”, which had been served at a dinner party two days earlier. A drug screen then revealed the cat also had benzodiazepines in its system.

This was not at some Hollywood soiree, mind you, nor was it at the ARIA awards, but simply in the quaint little suburb of Double Bay, Sydney.

Ah, who am I kidding? Double Bay is exactly where I’d expect to find a cocaine-fuelled feline…