The owners of the young pit bull were arrested and face possible charges of drug possession and animal cruelty.
Police in California administered Narcan to a puppy they suspected was overdosing on fentanyl and saved its life, reports say.
The Irvine Police Department said the incident began with a consensual encounter between the owners and police outside of a Walmart. Officers discovered fentanyl in their vehicle and placed them under arrest. "Then the female said, 'Oh, I think my dog is overdosing,'" department spokesman Kyle Oldoerp told The Los Angeles Times on Saturday."She knew the symptoms because it was the second time the dog had overdosed.
"Her tongue was hanging out of her mouth. Her eyes were kind of closing and so the officers thought, hey, let's use the Narcan on the dog to see if that will help her out," Davies told reporters."Sure enough it did, so they transported the dog to the vet."
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