Topic: Pets On Prozak - Disguising the problems that arise from pet food
Came across this story today on Rense about people who are putting their pets on Prozak and other psych drugs due to "depression" :
http://www.rense.com/general58/proz.htm
Several years ago a veterinarian in SoCal offered up the option of putting my cat on Prozak because she was always scritch scratching at herself and chewing little bald spots into her fur. She figured this was all psychologically related and could be cured by medicating my cat. Needless to say, I declined. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. I spent the next year trying to get to the bottom of what was wrong with my cat. Brought her to several more vets in CA and FL and all of them recommended things that served to disguise and mask the problem rather than getting to the root of the issue. Stuff like allergy shots, psych meds, pills, etc. Stuff that would make the vets mucho $$$$$, because I would have to keep going back to them to get more.
Turns out the problem was the food I was feeding her. I had her on Iams, thinking that was supposed to be the "good" stuff, not realizing that pretty much every pet food uses the most horrible crap ingrediants you could ever imagine, including euthanized animals. Once I came across the information about what's really in pet food, I was alarmed and vowed to get my cat on a better diet.
(Warning: The following is a pretty heavy duty expose article, not for the faint of heart. But if you have a pet and you claim to care about it, please try to read this. You need to know what you're feeding your pet).
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/petfood2.html
I switched her to what was supposed to be a healthy brand, called Pet Guard, but the problem only increased. Now the backs of her legs were practically bald. I tried making her food, giving her organic chicken and turkey, as well as fish, with vitamin supplements, but surprisingly, she didn't want that. ! I tried Science Diet, and bought the food for "allergies and sensitive skin." But I quickly discovered that all they do is spray the food with a coating of grease!! The grease/oil is supposed to "cure" the itchy skin. In the trash it went. So finally, I found and tried a brand of food called Nutro. Within 2 weeks all her fur had grown back and was thick and shiny, and the scritch scratching and chewing completely stopped. Yay! What's interesting is that when you go to Nutro's website, one of the things they mention about their food is that they absolutely do NOT put euthanized animals in their foods. So, this euthanized animals thing is pretty much common knowledge amongst the pet food industry. It's just the general pubic that's not aware of it. Also Nutro is the only pet food that I know of who puts Probiotics in the food, and has other beneficial ingredients. It's amazing stuff. So now she eats that, with a mix of regular meat thrown in.
In the above Rense article there's a brief mention of the rise in pets getting diabetes, arthritis, cancer, etc. My thought when I read that was "Yeah, of course they are!!! Considering what most people feed their animals it's no wonder!!!!" When you do the research, you really will find that most pet foods contain just absolutely abysmal ingredients. Scraps and rendered animals, rotting meat, sickly animals that had been covered in their own feces, bones, beaks, grease. Just nasty, horrible ingredients. The bottom line should be, if we wouldn't eat it, why should they?? At another messageboard I used to belong to I talked about this subject, and the webmaster decided to buy some Nutro dog food for her 4 year old dog. She was absolutely SHOCKED by her dog's 180 turnaround in personality. Before, her dog had always misbehaved, and was hyper and skittish. After the switch to Nutro within weeks her dog was calm and happy and pleasant. She had no idea her dog could even be that way. She'd just always assumed that it was the dog's natural personality to be so hyper and fidgety and skittish and badly behaved. Nope...it was all a byproduct of the mainstream pet food it had been fed.
I believe the sharp rise in sickly animals and pets with cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc. is directly correlated to the foods people feed them. I put my cat on a better diet and she immediately improved. Not only her skin and fur, but her energy level and moods as well. On Nutro she is just happier and more energetic. During that time I had her on the Science Diet grease coated junk her energy did a nosedive, and she was lethargic and grumpy. It would be the equivelant of us eating a big greasy fast food meal. How good do we feel afterwards? How much energy do we have? But think about it......This is supposed to be "SCIENCE DIET." This is supposed to be "top of the line" food. I mean, it has the name "SCIENCE" in the title, come on! 
They try to market it as if it's some scientifically formulated super food. No it's not.
But instead of getting to the root of the problem.....the diet.....vets and TPTB are pushing meds and psych drugs on us which only serve to mask the problem and which makes the pharmaceutical corporations tons of money. Sickness is an industry now....for EVERYBODY!! Adults, children....even our pets now. It's ludicrous. With a healthy diet, ANY critter can be physically healthy and mentally sound. It's all about the diet.
Anyway, if you have a pet and this is all news to you, I ask that you please read the above links and consider this information. Our pets deserve it! 
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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My cat was like that when she was young. For instance, as soon as she realized that something she did got a rise out of me, she'd make sure to do it all the time. One thing she was always doing was to knock my knickknacks stuff of the shelves in my waterbed headboard. Then she'd look over at me, bug eyed, waiting for my reaction. I'd be like, "Hey! stop it!!" and she'd run off, swing back around, jump up and do it again.....staring at me bug eyed, waiting for me to react! It's actually quite funny. Kittens are a riot. Every morning when I'd be getting ready to leave to work she'd run around like a nut, "misbehaving" to get as much attention from me as possible before I'd leave. I recognized though what was happening, so I'd take time to cuddle with her. I never used a squirt gun or anything, I just let it run its course. I realized that as cats get older they get more and more sedate, and that by then I'd be wishing she were more fiesty and cute, and so I wanted her to always have as much of a wild streak as possible in her. 
