[Obadiah]

My dog is an emo. What should I do? I fear he’ll turn in to a cutter.

[madison10]

Okayy... I do know fish become depressed when another in the tank dies, just happened in our home, but there is absolutely NO way I’d buy an animal those type of drugs.

[Esther Ruth]

Maybe the depressed pets can listed to broadcasts of Obama speaking and they will cheer up and realize things are soon going to change and be better - zingo-bingo - depression gone.

[Constitution Day]

Pharmaceutical companies should make a fortune off the owners of pet lemmings...

[Allegra]

[The KG9 Kid]

Prozac and Ambien for depressed suicidal dogs. That's just great. I can just picture a liberal Englishwoman putting her friggin' Corgi on Prozac.

Next thing you know, they'll be shooting up malls and schools.

I give it about ten more years before you won't be able to walk down the street without seeing everyone with spinning pinwheels where their eyes used to be and streams of multi-colored cuckoo pills dribbling out of their mouths.

[I_Like_Spam]

I suppose drug therapy for depressed dogs is a lot more practical than talk therapy, at least until a canine-human mind meld can be developed.

[ClearCase_guy]

There’s not much you can do if they’re pining for the fjords.

[the lastbestlady]

If my dog wanted to commit suicide....how would he do it?

[Not A Snowbird]

Huh. When my cat is unhappy, I rub her belly and give her kitty treats.

Works every time.

[oprahstheantichrist]

My vet once told me that if a cat continually pees outside the litter box, if all else fails, they put them on Prozac. Works like a champ.

[MarkL]

There are far too many people who have parrots who have no business with them... Because they can be expensive, people often have just one. They don't realize just how social parrots are in the wild, and by nature. They need company... A lot of company. And if they don't get it, they will go nuts. Usually it's destructive, like over preening that eventually turns to plucking out their feathers.

If you get a parrot, be prepared to work with and handle the bird for at least 6 to 8 hours a day, otherwise you wind up with a psychotic bird. Having a second parrot will help, but you still need to put in quite a bit of time with both birds.

The problem is that parrots are both social AND highly intelligent. Some African Greys have been shown to have roughly the intelligence level of a two year old human child (or a democrat congressional candidate).

Mark

[metmom]

What a market. Why didn’t I think of something like that?

[metmom]

ping

[CougarGA7]

This is why I have never taught my cats to tie knots.