cOUSIN SHORTY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
kNOT CONTenteD witH TORTURing HUMAn Beans, thSE EVil BAstarDS ARre after the PETs now TO.
With FDA approval, Spot gets chill pill
The age of better living through drug therapy has reached the canine set:
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved drugs
to treat behavioral problems in dogs.
The agency announced the two approvals Tuesday.
As a result, pet owners soon will be bombarded with ads urging them to
ask their vets about doggie separation anxiety and cognitive dysfunction
syndrome (CDS).
While the prospect of neurotic dogs on drug therapy might raise snickers,
experts say the pills may save some lives.
"Behavioral problems are the most common reason that owners ultimately
give up on their pets and have them euthanized," says Ilana Reisner, an
Ithaca, N.Y., animal behavior specialist acting as a consultant for Pfizer
Inc. in Groton, Conn.
Pfizer's dog drug, Anipryl, treats CDS, a condition that many people with
an aging dog will recognize. The signs can include disorientation, inactivity,
insomnia and incontinence.
In studies, more than half of dogs that received the drug improved in at
least one area, FDA scientists say.
Cost will be $1.50 to $2.50 a day, Pfizer says.
The other new drug, Clomicalm from Novartis Animal Health U.S. Inc. of
Greensboro, N.C., treats separation anxiety — a diagnosis that experts
say might fit 7 million U.S. dogs who tear up furniture, soil carpet, bark
endlessly and otherwise cause havoc every time their owners leave the
house.
The drug must be combined with behavior therapy to work, experts say.
That means teaching dogs to be alone, working up from "just rattling the
door knob to going out the door for half an hour," says Katherine A.
Houpt, president of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and a
professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
Houpt says the drug plus behavior therapy works only a little better than
behavior therapy alone.
But it works faster, she says, something that may mean a lot to dogs and
owners.
"If you can make these dogs feel better, it's really more humane," she says.
"The dog is suffering."
The meat-flavored pills will cost about $1 a day.
The newly approved drugs and others already are used by many vets to
treat behavior, but their new status — which allows companies to market
them specifically for behavior — will greatly increase use, says Nicholas
Dodman of Tufts University in North Grafton, Mass., who treats and
writes about pet behavior problems.
By Kim Painter, USA TODAY
usatoday.com
"American College of Veterinary Behaviorists"!!
"The drug must be combined with behavior therapy to work, experts say."
THIs IS PSYchotIC! DO YOo humANBEans unnerSTANd this? THEse peopLE ARE DRUGGIng ANIMAls! THey are MAKIng MONEy to seLL YOu POISON to DRUG your PETS!
IAm HoneSTLY ANd sincerELY AstOUNDEd thaT YOo Humans are allOWING THIS. Here is MY PLAn: Katherine and Ilana and Nicholas GET NOTHIng FROm SANDy cLAWS FOREVER! INSTEd, they GET SOme of THEir STUPId behavIORAL TRAining with DRUgs. ONE OUnce of HERoin aND OUT tHe AIrlock DOOR> AND the rest of THE NUTBall VEts that tell YOU to GIve DruGS to youR fRIggin' bIRDS AND cats becAUse THey are UNHAPPy when THEY ARE LEFt insiDE THE ApartmmEnt ALONe (relly abnormal, eh?) Are LINed up in THE hallWAY For THE NEXT REATMent.
You WONDEr who is TRying to CONTrol your PLAnt? PolitiCIans? ReligioUS zealOTs? RepublICANs?
NopE. Read the STORy aGAin. There they aRE>
GawD I AM GLAd I am NOT liviNG ON YOUr Plant. |
