God's Creatures Being Medicated Now By Man

Where does this all end? How exactly did we become therapists to the Animal kingdom and become real live Dr Doolittle's able to determine which of these glorious creatures is depressed and in need of psychotropic drugs?

And when exactly has anyone actually determined when an animal has become suicidal and in need of therapy? This is going just a little too far for my taste as I happen to believe that these drugs and this profession has done enough to ruin mankind in many ways, now it's on to the Wild Kingdom for Pfizer and friends apparently.

How literally disgusting this whole revelation is to me....Pet Prozac....

Suicidal pets get anti-depressants |

NEWS.com.au: "PETS at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed anti-depressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says.
Zoo and wildlife medicine specialist with the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Romain Pizzi, told the Telegraph that more pets were being prescribed Prozac.

Tropical birds such as parrots seemed to have been the most affected by depression, Mr Pizzi told the newspaper.

But Mr Pizzi said anti-depressants were only used in the most extreme of cases.

“Firstly, we will change the environment of the animal and make sure it has more stimulation and toys,” Mr Pizzi told the newspaper.

'When we have ruled out underlying medical problems, we try to break the cycle by using Prozac… (which) is given to the parrots in liquid form.

'It doesn't cure all animals, but around two-thirds respond to the treatment. In a small number of cases things will go well until we wean them off Prozac and the problems return.'

Mr Pizzi said the severity of some pet’s depression often put their lives at risk.

'Typically if people go out to work all day their parrot will get very bored and frustrated and eventually develop depression,” he said.

“Symptoms often include plucking out their feathers or self mutilation"

I guess they might do that when they're kept in cages and zoo's while being prodded, analyzed and constantly poked at by Animal Psych Dr's and such.!!

Then in the same day we see this story hit the airwaves and internet:

Study casts doubt on anti-depressants

FT.com Prescribing anti-depressants to the vast majority of patients is futile, as the drugs have little or no impact at all, according to researchers.

Almost 50 clinical trials were reviewed by psychologists from the University of Hull who found that new-generation anti-depressants worked no better than a placebo – a dummy pill – for mildly depressed patients.

Even the trials that suggested some clinical benefit for the most severely depressed patients did not produce convincing evidence. Professor Irving Kirsch from the university’s pyschology department said: “The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking anti-depressants is not very great.

“This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments. Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.” continued

So these drugs are turning out to be terrible for humans causing all kinds of unexpected ramifications like mass murders and other crime seemingly related to their medicated states. So lets start feeding this sh** to the animals to keep the drugs on the shelves of drug companies?

I'm a conservative and normally don't rail against big business and drug companies, but this crap is going way too far and needs to be reigned in or stopped altogether in my opinion and many others I'm sure.

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