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October 5, 2007
Q. What are all those pets doing taking Prozac-like medications? If they're depressed, they certainly can't tell anybody about it.
A. Psychiatric drugs have been used to help with dogs that obsessively lick their paws, cats that spray walls with urine, pet parrots that might self-mutilate when bored, zoo animals suffering outside their natural habitat, reports the “Atlanta Journal Constitution.” The overall aims are to do what is humanly possible to protect animals from self-injury and to improve quality of life (“Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine”).
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