Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.07.2007
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With This Ring, I'm Confused by Kristin Billerbeck
Two books in the Black Or White series by John Aubrey Anderson
Prozac for dogs?
So, as you know, I was in Hawaii for 10 days. According to my husband, my dog Snickers was depressed the entire time I was gone.
Do dogs get depressed? While it’s gratifying to think Snickers would pine away without me, I’m wondering if it was just boredom or something like that.
Captain Caffeine said she spent a lot of time sleeping when normally she’d be up and about and being a bother. She also didn’t play with her favorite squeak toy (remember the death squeal?) while I was gone, but when I returned, she started playing with her toy as usual.
What do you think? Does she need Prozac? Do any of you have pets who miss you when you’re gone?
Update: It's TRUE! Angie just sent me this article:
http://pages.prodigy.com/lemus/prozac.htm
Blog book giveaway:
To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there.
With This Ring, I'm Confused by Kristin Billerbeck
Two books in the Black Or White series by John Aubrey Anderson
Prozac for dogs?
So, as you know, I was in Hawaii for 10 days. According to my husband, my dog Snickers was depressed the entire time I was gone.
Do dogs get depressed? While it’s gratifying to think Snickers would pine away without me, I’m wondering if it was just boredom or something like that.
Captain Caffeine said she spent a lot of time sleeping when normally she’d be up and about and being a bother. She also didn’t play with her favorite squeak toy (remember the death squeal?) while I was gone, but when I returned, she started playing with her toy as usual.
What do you think? Does she need Prozac? Do any of you have pets who miss you when you’re gone?
Update: It's TRUE! Angie just sent me this article:
http://pages.prodigy.com/lemus/prozac.htm
Comments
When he is home, they take a walk together every day and then after supper, it's time to play with toys (i.e. wrestle around on the floor and play fetch).
When I come to puppy-sit, she walks to the end of the driveway, then refuses to budge another inch. No walks for her. After dinner, I head to the toy bin. After approximately 10 seconds of tug-of-war, she takes the toy, curls up by the couch and pouts.
Snickers definitely missed you!
Sarah
My MIL had a cat that would drag a roll of toilet paper into the living room and shred it when they left her for long periods of time. Her payback for being left alone.
When Mario knows he's being left behind, he'll stand at the window and whine and whine, and then he'll howl. It's heartbreaking. I've heard that dogs are so shortsighted that when we leave, they think we're never coming back. Which is why they are so jazzed to see us again when we do.
Does Snicks ever get a 'tude? One time when my sister-in-law gave Mario a haircut, he totally ignored her for three weeks. Yep. If she entered a room, he left it. He wouldn't sleep on the bed or eat if she fed him. Totally a hoot.
Gotta love dogs. They totally wear their little hearts out on their paws.
P.S. Cheryl's glad your back too. Now she can play with her squeaky toy again. ; )