More American Pets Are Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs

ABC News:

Psychiatric medications such as Prozac are being prescribed more often to man's best friend to help treat a variety of conditions and behaviors usually found in humans.

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Comments

[cndvd]

07:50 AM on 02/11/2012

Wow, now we got to worry about Fido going on a blind rampage. Do you think a dog can shoot a gun ? Imaging a chi-wa-wa .....trying to bit your legs off....oh, my god.

Maybe just call Cesar Milan...that's more sensible. Alternatives to mental medication first.

[j14kline]

02:51 AM on 02/11/2012

Great, now Fido will have a high risk of suicide by the time he is 2 (14) probably drowning himself in the family pool, that drug is not fit for human consumption, so let's try on the animal population and keep the lawsuits down, and the profits up, geeat logic.

[emczbuddy]

06:48 PM on 02/10/2012

I am a dog behaviorist. This is a very sad trend. Dogs sit home day after day after day with little or no exercise. That is the most important thing you can give a dog. That and then being a "leader" a dog will trust to follow. Than you can set limits on unwanted behavior. But first dog are going crazy from lack of exercise. To give a drug like that is a fundamental lack of understanding of a dogs mind.
Even from a vet!

[Cautious]

06:20 PM on 02/10/2012

This is by no means new. I knew a psychiatrist at least 25 years ago that had a dachshund that was obsessively licking her paws. He gave her an appropriate dose of Prozac and the licking stopped.

[CHUXKLES]

06:31 PM on 02/10/2012

A friend of mine gave it to her dog and it worked...only problem was the dog started chasing parked cars!! LMAO!

[joebikerchef]

05:15 PM on 02/10/2012

Had a dwarf macaw that started plucking himself when a new bird came into the house, vet put him on ambitriptyline (sp?) this was 20 or so years ago...

[karen lyons kalmenson]

02:48 PM on 02/10/2012

our pets ourselves
into our neuroses
they delve:(