[Pharmwaste] Pill-Popping Pets

[DeBiasi,Deborah]

Pets are becoming more medicated than ever before, adding to the problem
of pharmaceuticals in the
 waters:

July 13, 2008 
Pill-Popping Pets 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/magazine/13pets-t.html?th&emc=th	

"Modern owners are increasingly trying to "sterilize" pet ownership, he
adds, trying to pharmacologically control dogs so that they don't act
like dogs. "What people want is a pet that is on par with a TiVo, that
its activity, play and affection are on demand," he says "Then, when
they're done, they want to turn it off." "






Deborah L. DeBiasi
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