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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: medicating pets

medicating pets stories: 3 news summaries

 Eyeless Chimp Victim 
 Recounts Ordeal on Oprah 

'I want the nightmares to stop,' says Charla Nash

Nov 12, 09 2:30 AM CST
(Newser) - A woman viciously attacked early this year by a crazed pet chimpanzee discussed her ordeal and revealed her ravaged face on the Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday. Charla Nash lost her nose, lips, eyelid—and hands—in the attack by a Connecticut neighbor's chimp. Doctors also removed both eyes because of... More »

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pets • Oprah Winfrey • chimpanzees • animal attack • medicating pets • Charla Nash

GLOSSIES

 America: Land of  Doggy Doping 

The business of pet pharmacology is booming

Jul 10, 08 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans spent $49 billion on their pets last year, with an ever-growing percentage paying for treatment of  behavioral issues with tailor-made psychotropics, reports James Vlahos in the New York Times Magazine. Frustrated owners are feeding dogs drugs like Reconcile—beef-flavored Prozac—-for "mental illnesses that eerily resemble human ones,... More »

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pets • New York Times • pharmaceutical companies • veterinarian • Prozac • pharmaceutical industry • medicating pets

Polly Want a Prozac?

Parrots are the latest pets to see spike in depression

Feb 26, 08 9:33 AM CST
(Newser) - With more pet owners working long days and leaving their furry and feathered friends alone at home, cases of animal depression are on the rise, writes the Daily Telegraph. A TV vet says the trend is hitting parrots especially hard, causing the talkative birds to pull out their feathers or... More »

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pets • depression • antidepressant • prescription drugs • Eli Lilly • parrot • dog • medicating pets

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