catnip – the new gateway drug

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As if Babyshambles Pete Doherty isn’t front page bad news in all the leading rock rags, he’s now in hot soup with animal lovers too. After his cat Dinger, Cockney for syringe, gave birth to a litter, a sicky kitten was brought to the vet for a check up.

With a rep like Doherty’s, we can certainly understand the vet’s motivation to screen the cat for suspicious substances and, lo and behold, they found a copious amount of cocaine in the kitten’s bloodstream. No fingers have been pointed yet, but the RSPCA have seized the animals in question and called it a ‘police matter’.