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.

Despite the Pharmaceutical Industry and some misguided pet behaviour organisations in the United Kingdom slavishly and happily bid on behalf of the drugs companies to dope as many of our pets as possible - As we have stated many times - where is the evidence?

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, its 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 below. 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 falsified. Iif you want 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 pushes 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 there is no evidence that mind altering drugs work in pet behaviour and as we, as an organisation, have been stating for the past fifteen years. Lilly stated last year that between 10 & 20% of separation anxiety cases were helped with Prozac (reconcile drug). We at the CFBA would have had an equal percentage of failing in our work in Separation related anxiety which we did not have and therefore, this percentage claim by the drug pushes was obviously a figure 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 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