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Cigarette chewing dog killed on way to tobacconists

By John Hirst

a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3831918/Cigarette-chewing-dog-killed-on-way-to-tobacconists.html"Cigarette chewing dog killed on way to tobacconists/abr /br /A 10-a-day cigarette chewing 24-year-old Dachshund has been knocked down and killed ? on his way to the tobacconist's shop. br /br /General Edi has been munching his way through half a packet of cigarettes every day since he was a puppy, said owner Wolfgang Treirler.br /br /But Edi has died after he was hit by a car during a walk to his favourite cigarette shop.br /br /"Poor Edi dashed out in the road in excitement right in front of a car.br /br /There was nothing anyone could do," said one neighbour in Graz, central Austria.br /br /Mr Treirler said:"His old owner abandoned him and so we took him in 17 years ago, and noticed straight away that he was in the habit of eating cigarettes.br /br /"He eats the tobacco and the paper, and then chews a while on the filter before spitting it out.br /br /"On average he eats about 10 cigarettes a day, but all of his teeth are fine."br /br /A local vet, Harald Mayr, said: "Nicotine normally leads to poisoning in dogs, but in this case the animal has obviously become addicted to it which has increased its level of tolerance".br /br /If that's not wuff justice I don't know what is! Why are smokers being targeted?

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).