Pups poisoned after eating meth-laced hot dogs tossed in family’s yard
A Colorado family’s dogs have been poisoned multiple times after consuming methamphetamine-laced hot dogs thrown into their backyard, according to reports.
Jillian Frank’s mother first discovered the tainted hot dogs in November 2025 while sweeping her patio in Broomfield. She found the sausages stuffed with a crystalline substance. “She found a hot dog on her patio, and she’s a vegetarian,” Frank said. “She cracked it open, and there’s this crystal substance in it.”
The hot dogs were handed over to police, who confirmed they tested positive for methamphetamine. Frank’s mother installed surveillance cameras and tried to move on from the alarming incident.
However, on December 26, her dog Gable began showing severe symptoms. She discovered that he had eaten another meth-laced hot dog left in the yard. “He won’t stop circling, he won’t stop panting, he won’t lay down,” Frank told 9News.
Gable required 14 hours in a veterinary critical care unit, receiving fluids and sedatives to counteract the drug’s effects. Frank shared the ordeal in a GoFundMe fundraiser to help her mother relocate to a safer home and cover expensive vet bills.
In March, another family dog, Murray, began acting erratically. “I noticed Murray just spinning in circles and foaming at the mouth. I know him really well, so I knew something was not right,” said Annalyn Frank. “We had experienced a dog high on meth already, so I was noticing similar symptoms. We looked at the Ring camera, and we saw he had gotten out of my car and eaten something in the grass immediately.”
Testing confirmed that Murray had methamphetamine and MDMA in his system. “I feel absolutely helpless. My dogs are my absolute world,” Annalyn Frank said. “For him to just be looking at me, absolutely terrified, and then I had to leave him at the vet. I was helpless seeing him so scared.”
The repeated poisonings have left the family shaken and prompted Frank’s mother to consider leaving the home she purchased in 2021. “Her dream has always been to own her own home. Now that her kids are taken care of and after years of hard work, including going through nursing school while raising four children, that dream finally came to fruition in 2021 when she was finally able to buy her house in Broomfield,” Jillian Frank wrote.
The fundraiser noted, “At this point, it is obvious that my mom is being targeted … And with no true suspect or anything the police can do, her only option now is to move. To give up the safe space she’s spent her whole life working for and start over.”
The family is also raising money to cover more than $6,000 in veterinary bills from the incidents. Broomfield Police are investigating the case as an isolated event and urged anyone with video or information to come forward.
The family has installed higher fencing and continues to monitor their property with security cameras, though no suspect has yet been identified. “I guess we’re at a loss now. Just grasping at straws,” Jillian Frank said.
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