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#23 September 17th 04, 03:11 PM

In article ,
enlightened us with...
(Paulette) wrote in message ...
If you give a cat morphine (if you could even OBTAIN morphine) it will
go wild...climb the walls. etc. Morphine also stimulates horses.

False

True. Sort of.
http://opioids.com/morphine/felinemania.html

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(1) autonomic stage (0-15 min postdrug): with vocalization, salivation,
licking, swallowing, retching and vomiting; (2) quiet stage (15-60 min
postdrug): sitting, fixed gaze, mydriasis, and pricked pinnae; (3) head
movement stage (from 30-60 min postdrug and decreasing by the 5th hr): fully
aroused but mostly sitting; showing discrete, complex head movements of a
visual-tracking type with pouncing/avoidance paw movements, and with
irregular, dose-dependent bouts of rocking, pivoting, and backing. Sleep,
grooming, micturition and defecation were suppressed.

This certainly doesn't sound like a nice way to die for a cat.

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