Very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph today with regards to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in dogs...

[link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/04/nvets04.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/04/ixhome.html]HERE[/link]

Melody :)

Food for thought.

I think my mothers cocker has a form of this. The dog when on walks, will walk about 10 steps and then turn a full circle and then carry on walking. It does this again and again throughout her walk. I have seen dogs turning circles when they have been shut up in a kennel for too long but Holly is not kenneled and is well fed and exercised every day. Its just a compulsion she has to do it. It dosn't bother her at all and only bothers my mother when she nearly falls over her after the sudden stops. Crazy dog :)
On a lighter note Floyd certainly has OCD at the mo. He is OBSESSIVELY and COMPULSIVELY trying to get at in season Jasmine and the house is full of DISORDER. :D

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There was a similar article in the Daily Mail yesterday. The person charges £135 per hour! I figure I've missed my calling! :p

No matter what the newspapers tell us (And we all know they are the font of all wisdom) OCD is not "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder"! It is Osteochondrosis, an ailment affecting the joint.

Don't you just hate it when people who know nothing about a subject try to write in the papers as experts.

John

Shows you didnt read the article John ..they never mentioned OCD ..I did ...and I wasn't aware that I had ever considered myself an expert in anything!

ALSO ...if you run a search (Google) on OCD it comes up with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and not Ostochondrosis *shrug* maybe it just depends in which context you use the letters ;)

Melody

You are right Melody, I went to check the article in yesterdays Daily Mail and they never mentioned OCD either.

I am supprised that you, with your experience would fall into that trap. You know all about OCD and if people use the initals wrongly we will never know what anyone is talking about!

*I am suprised that you, with your experience would fall into that trap. You know all about OCD and if people use the initals wrongly we will never know what anyone is talking about!*

I have to say I am a bit baffled here John :) As far as I know ..OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ..and it appeared to me that it was THAT that the DT was talking about ..I don't know anything about the other OCD ....

Help!

Melody :)

Just try doing a search on here then Melody.

I still maintain that anyone wanting to pay out £135 for an hour's consultation (Daily Mails's words) to be told that their dog is a loony only needs to give me a ring and I'll tell them what they want to hear! We all know some dogs are hyper without all the mumbo jumbo. :rolleyes:

John

Ah ..maybe a bit of light at the end of my tunnel here ;) I am not saying that Dogs suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder .....just used those initials to describe the article ..I have no idea if dogs do or don't ....

The letters OCD are used for both of the conditions ..obviously one more in humans than in canines ;) But as I have no experience of the canine one I wouldn't know :)

Melody :)

I have had considerable experience of it both with a bitch of my own and others I have had to deal with in training. Unlike this other thing it is very serious both in the effects on the lifestyle of the dog concerned and on possible effects on progeny.

John

OCD is Osteochondritis Dissicans, a degenerative disease of the cartilage in young dogs of the larger breeds only. It can affect the shoulder, elbow, stifle or hock.