If your dog, like mine, is transformed from a gallant defender of the castle into a whimpering skulker at the sound of fireworks or thunder, you may soon be able to drug that fear right out of them.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a medicine for pets with noise aversion, a drug called Sileo marketed as a way to calm animals without truly sedating them. "It's not a tranquilizer, per se," Dr. Gary Yarnell, a vet in New York, told CBS SF. "It works on the nervous system to inhibit the release of adrenaline or nor-epinephrine."
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