We have no idea how these drugs drugs effect various animals subjective states, let alone if they're tripping, delusional, in a stupor, etc as a result of taking drugs that act as psychedelics for humans. Sorry, I know you like to be able to think you can read your pets emotions and thoughts (and you probably can genuinely tell when they need to go outside and take a shit), but that kind of "personal bond" doesn't go so far in cases like this.
Remember that newspaper story about sheep tripping on mushrooms a few pages back? Well, those same sheep DIE if they eat phallaris grass (the grass some people extract 5-MeO-DMT and DMT from to smoke and have a great time, but if they eat it NOTHING HAPPENS). Ketamine may anesthetize a cat but it will KILL a buffalo. That's how different people are from animals, and
different animals are from each other. Do you roll on the floor and and jump around manically pouncing on anything that sways in the wind for hours on end if you eat catnip, then meow longingly at the cupboard after its put away?
Why is it that the idea that different nervous systems and bodies with different liver enzymes, different receptor affinities, different blood brain barrier permeabilities, emotional instincts, etc. could result in unpredictable subjective states seems to be the last idea to occur in these threads? So many assume the animal is tripping like we would, seeing aliens or demons or having cosmic realizations, and it's just like if we dosed a child, or that we're opening our hamster's third eye before it's ready. All we can say about giving animals drugs is that something is probably happening. Sometimes a drug has similar very broad overt behavioral effects (like sedatives putting animals to sleep, dogs losing motor coordination after drinking, monkeys self-administering IV cocaine until they die, squirrels eating cigarette butts in the park and killing each other over the last butts because they're addicted to nicotine), that's true, but we can never have any idea what affect they're having on an animal's subtle mind state, least of all how a "mind manifesting" psychedelic would manifest itself in minds very different from ours.
