Prozac (Reconcile) and other Psychotropic
drugs are useless for Pets
The Canine & Feline Behaviour Association has been stating
for many years that psychopharmacology has no place in pet
behaviour solutions. We believe it is unethical because we
have never been presented with any results that prove the
success of mind-altering drugs in practice other than dubious
accounts from the provider of such drugs.
The fact of the matter is that people who issue such mind-altering
drugs (including Prozac) simply do not in our view have experience
or acquired knowledge with pets. They simply cannot solve
behavioural problems, but unlike the rest of us, are not prepared
to learn through time and practical experience - so they use
drugs and then walk away from the problem.
NEW research on a world scale has finally concluded that
Prozac is next to useless in people and therefore, by default,
the same must be true for pets. Despite this, the drugs company
Lilly launched their pet Prozac-type drug last year. Unfortunately
for Lilly this latest and profound research is bad news for
them and their pet drug pushers.
However, it's good news for pets and the CFBA has once again
been right to defend pets from abuse by pharmacological chemicals.
We have included the research for your perusal. Please click
on the various links to the left. One can only conclude that
either the behaviour counsellors who have asked vets to supply
their clients with drugs are either incompetent or deluded
and their statistics of success are falsified. To be blunt:
they have been telling lies to pet owners. We do hope that
all of these counsellors concerned will now offer all of their
clients' pet owners an apology - although that may not suffice;
pets will in some cases have suffered adverse side affects
unnecessarily.
No doubt the drug pusher's language will suddenly change
- you will read disclaimers like “in good faith we issue .
. ” and so on and so forth trying to weasel their way out
of guilt. The bottom line is that there is no evidence that
mind-altering drugs work in pet behaviour as we, as an organisation,
have been stating for the past fifteen years. Lilly stated
last year that 10-20% of separation anxiety cases were helped
with Prozac (Reconcile drug). Logically, therefore, by not
using it, we at the CFBA would have had an equal percentage
of failing in our work in separation-related anxiety. We did
not have and one has to conclude that this percentage claim
by the drug pushers was a figure drawn from a dubious source.
Fortunately for us and the pet-owning British public, we
are very suspicious of any person who states that they want
to solve our pets' problems with psychotropic drugs.
The Canine & Feline Behaviour Association does not use
nor condone the use of drugs in any pet behaviour solutions.
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