Word: licker
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...point now that if you don't know something about behavior-modifying drugs, you can't provide full treatment." Mild cases of misbehavior involving housebreaking and chewing are still handled with conventional treatments: training, along with diet and exercise changes. More serious problems--overly aggressive dogs, compulsive lickers and tail chasers, cats that urinate all over the house--are often treated with well-known antidepressants (Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac). Not surprisingly, some pets end up on the same medicines as their owners. That fuels some vets' criticism that the treatment is just an exercise in anthropomorphizing the animals. But Dodman...