Leaving an anxious dog behind can be a terrible feeling for a pet owner, especially when their house is full of chewed up shoes and destroyed pillows upon return. Pet anxiety isn’t all that uncommon.

Dogs across the UK are increasingly being prescribed drugs from Xanax to fluoxetine to manage their behavioural difficulties, from separation anxiety to hyperactive tendencies. If the names of those ...

Prozac for your pet may sound bizarre, but there’s new thinking about the emotional needs of animals and how medication can help them. Michael Sheather investigates. Yet, instead of giving this once ...

Veterinarians say they have seen an increasing number of pets experiencing mental distress. Here’s how to spot the signs. By Melinda Wenner Moyer When my dog Ozzy feels stressed, he emits loud, rambly ...

Q. You’ve written about problems with generic drugs, and I wanted to share that pets can also be adversely affected by changes in generic medications. Our dog was prescribed generic Prozac nine years ...

Over the past few years of social distancing and working from home, many people turned to pets to relieve their depression and anxiety. Now, as humans return to the office and their pre-pandemic ...

Dogs have co-evolved with humans for so long that dogs can read our emotions and may even prefer our company to that of other dogs. Likewise, most human owners believe we can intuit when dogs are sad ...