Image source, Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team
Tokyo the achromatic Labrador collapsed connected the way fractional mode up Ben Nevis
A canine has been rescued from Ben Nevis aft it is suspected to person fallen sick from eating discarded cannabis.
Christina Bluhme, a canine trainer from Esher successful Surrey, was halfway up the UK's highest upland erstwhile her achromatic Labrador Tokyo collapsed connected the trail.
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team came to their assistance and stretchered Tokyo down from the 4,413ft (1,345m) highest to a section vet.
Bluhme said Tokyo had made a afloat betterment aft the incidental during a travel to Scotland past weekend. She said vets judge she ingested cannabis near connected the trail.
The canine trainer said "I genuinely thought I was going to suffer her", aft Tokyo mislaid the usage of her legs and began drifting successful and retired of consciousness.
Image source, Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team
The canine was cared for by Crown Vets successful Fort William
Bluhme said Tokyo remained unconscious for astir of the travel down the upland and praised the rescuers who brought her to safety.
She said: "Without the unthinkable Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, determination is simply nary mode I could person got her safely disconnected the mountain.
"Carrying a 25kg Labrador down Ben Nevis was intolerable connected my own.
"Their kindness, professionalism and calm enactment meant everything during 1 of the astir frightening days I've ever experienced."
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Tokyo made a afloat betterment by the adjacent time
Bluhme said she felt "incredibly lucky" that Tokyo had survived and thanked the rescue unit and vet squad for their "compassion and dedication".
"You were determination erstwhile we needed you most," she added.
"A small reminder to chap canine owners - delight beryllium alert that discarded drugs and different toxic substances tin sometimes beryllium recovered adjacent successful the astir beauteous outdoor places.
"It was thing I ne'er imagined we would encounter."
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team said it was pleased that Tokyo had made a afloat betterment and praised the section vet squad successful Fort William.
A spokesperson added: "It's present suspected that Tokyo, a usually precise acceptable and progressive moving dog, had ingested thing that made her critically unwell.
"Many acknowledgment to Crown vets for their support, and to Tokyo's proprietor for the update and photos."
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