Ever wondered why your dog spins in circles before lying down, or why a cat’s "slow blink" is actually a medical green flag? 🐱🐶 The intersection of Animal Behavior Veterinary Science
Note: Medications should always accompany behavioral modification, not replace it. Ever wondered why your dog spins in circles
These specialists also tackle psychopharmacology in species far removed from humans: administering trazodone to a distressed parrot, amitriptyline to a self-mutilating horse, or gabapentin to a phobic rabbit. The result is that fewer animals are surrendered, abandoned, or euthanized for purely behavioral reasons. amitriptyline to a self-mutilating horse
Veterinarians today are as likely to prescribe a diet change for aggression as they are a medication. The behavior is a symptom; the gut is the organ. the gut is the organ.