Move over, ‘Cocaine Bear.’ There’s a new intoxicated animal in town.
Hamilton County, Ohio, dog wardens responded on Jan. 28 to reports of a “leopard” being spotted in a tree in Oakley, a Cincinnati neighborhood.
When they arrived on the scene, crews retrieved an exotic cat – now named Amiry – from the tree and brought it to Cincinnati Animal CARE.
Their initial thought was the cat was a hybrid F1 Savannah, which is legal to own in Ohio. However, after assistance from a big cat expert, officials said they were pretty certain Amiry was a serval, which is illegal.
A medical team examined Amiry, took a sample for a DNA test and tested him for narcotics.
Ray Anderson, a spokesman for Cincinnati Animal CARE, told FOX Weather that the lab results recently released show Amiry tested positive for exposure to cocaine. The DNA test also concluded he was indeed a serval.
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/serval-cocaine-rescued-cincinnati-ohio
