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some issues are cuased by medical conditions mostly its the severe ones if your dog is aggressive,has seperation anxiety,licks or bites excessivly,howls excessivly ect. but alot of behaviors are jsut dogs needing to leanr some direction.
i dont think ive ever heard of a dog who jumped up on people as having a medical issue directly related to and causing that behavior or a dog who was obsessed with a certian toy.
some dogs who do have excitability issues verts will push meds on them much like people nowdays but i think its a very rare few dogs whoreally need meds to calm them down or to stop obsessive behaviors like barking or seperation anxiety i think most of these dogs just have high mental capacities and are not getting the mental stimulation or excersize that they need.
No, I didn't mean the prozac which I am assuming that is what you are referring to. I mean such as thyroid or liver problems such as the case of my guy. He had low thyroid and his liver is too small and his enzymes were over 700 so he did have some severe aggression problems. Now, he has several other medical problems we had found but these are the ones I attributed to his aggression.
He was accepted initially into Tuft's behavioral study for thyroid but could not participate when they found his ALT being over 700. But, I feel if we would not have found these things he would have been put down. I was with 3 vets prior to my current one who only felt it was becasue of the bully breed. We still do not know why his liver is smaller than normal but I don't feel a biopsy is warranted if the meds have him stablized.
I was talking of real medical issues causing the mental instability and not just feeding prozac as an easier way to deal with behavior.
