Behavior in dogs

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two new drugs for the dogs with conduct problems.

Clomicalm (the clomipramina) is a canine antidepressant used to treat the anxiety by separation in dogs. The dogs with anxiety by separation can become destructive, to bark in excessive form, is a problem of conduct very common in the dogs.
Anipryl is a medication that has been accepted for the treatment of the cognitivo upheaval in the oldest dogs.

Nowadays, it is of routine that the Veterinary Doctors are consulted by problems of conduct in dogs. The more common problems of conduct include: compulsive anxiety, phobias, disorders, aggression, unsuitable elimination, and the cognitivo problem.
Until now, the medications available to veterinarians to treat those disorders in the conduct were human drugs. The cognitivo upheaval talks about to a declivity in the cognitiva function (the knowledge and information processing) due to the aging.
The observed most common changes include less answers to the call, disorientation, and a diminution in the elementary conducts (to obey orders). The true cognitivo upheaval must be distinguished of medical problems that could cause similar conducts, like loss of the heard vision or, hormonal abnormalitys and pain.

Commentaries:
The conduct problems are one of the common conditions but that we received in the consultations. Many pathologies can cause conduct problems. In order to deal with some the complex problems of conduct, normally we needed a anamnesis or completes and in the place where the animal lives to have an impartial vision of the subject, since the owner can, wanting or no, to give a information us not absolutely it completes.
The treatment must be in equipment that it includes to all in the house, the veterinarian, a professional trainer and a veterinarian specialized in conduct animal if the operating veterinarian does not practice the specialty in behavior animal.
The single medications, rarely, solve a conduct problem.

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