[Mari]

http://www.newint.org/columns/seriou...6/01/seriously

Here is part of the article.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON June 2007

. . . .Yes, Eli Lilly and Co have just won US Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its over-prescribed, selective serotonin-reuptake-inhibiting, drinking-water-contaminating, best-selling drug ProzacTM to depressed dogs.

Repackaged into a chewable, beef-flavoured pill to be called ReconcileTM, it is designed to treat ‘separation anxiety’. This is the medicalized term for leaving your pet alone for extended periods of time.

Dogs, being very social pack animals, mysteriously can’t cope well with solitude. But now negligent dog owners the world over can rejoice. Just one happy pill with breakfast and Spot will be as happy as a lamb in Spring.

According to Lilly, ‘10.7 million, or up to 17 per cent of US dogs, suffer from separation anxiety’. But now, thanks to this great and beneficent corporation, dog owners can ReconcileTM their feelings of guilt for leaving their pooch at home all day.

And Lilly can ReconcileTM its profit margins – since ProzacTM lost its patent protection, sales of the company’s most profitable product plummeted as it lost out to generic rivals. . . .

[waves]

this is horrid.

i hope the ASPCA and HSUS and GreenPeace and Whoever Else gets on their @ss and sues the diabetogenous bastards.

say i ... with a pack of Zyprexa in the drawer rofl

(Mari - no lithium now, that referred to 1999 taper)

anywayyyyyy

this is drugging living beings to suit our needs
it is socionarcissistic

it is evil

~ waves ~

[mrsD]

They have been using Prozac in dogs for quite a while. It is just a more convenient way to give it.

Vets also use amitriptyline in cats. My son's cat had a UTI and they gave him amitriptyline for her.. for some bizarre reason. I went over there and she was a total wreck-- couldn't even walk. He stopped it then, on my recommendation and called them, and the bottom line? -- it is not really needed, you can stop it. So why give it at all?

Vets are now joining the human medical community in drugging pets.