A driver, panicked to be stopped at a police DUI checkpoint, fed a puppy his crack cocaine.

However, police got wise to the situation, and according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dr. Steven Smolen, a veterinarian at the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Shaler, who was on duty when the puppy was brought in, said the puppy is "doing very well."

"It was really very thin from not getting the proper nutrition. We're treating it for internal and external parasites - worms and fleas and ticks."

According to the paper, police will charge the driver, Rich Lavelle, 19, of Pittsburgh with "cruelty to animals, DUI, driving under suspension and other summary offenses."

However, Dr. Smolen assures the public that "the dog is not going back to that owner."