Stoned Dogs

Dogs in Görlitzer Park and Treptower were showing up at vets with the same symptoms: trembling, disorientation, hearts racing. Vet Reinhold Sassnau at his practice near Südstern put it together. They’d been eating feces contaminated with drugs, leftovers from addicts using the parks like bathrooms. Most recovered after a sedative, but the real problem was harder. His advice: train your dog not to eat shit.

The Verge even covered it, which captures the absurdity—a tech publication reporting on stoned dogs in Berlin.

It’s a very Berlin situation. Everything gets documented. Nothing gets fixed. The parks stay broken, the addicts stay stuck, the dogs keep eating poisoned shit, and it becomes a story people tell about what the city’s like.