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Article: PILL-POPPING POOCHES DRIVING UP SALES OF BEHAVIORAL DRUGS.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 8, 2000
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Does your dog have issues? Is he a little upset when you go off to work? Or does he simply not remember you at all?
Maybe he's not simply an irritating, dumb mutt, but is suffering from separation anxiety or ``canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome'' - a form of doggie senility.
That's the pitch from the makers of Clomicalm and Anipryl, the first behavioral drugs for dogs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Clomicalm is an anti-depressant and Anipryl restores older dogs' cognitive abilities - needed to stay housebroken and friendly and not get lost in their own back yard.
Drug companies, which already have a $3 billion ...