Prozac for...Poodles?

Came across a very interesting (and lengthy) article by James Vlahos, writing for NYTimes.com. His article, appropriately entitled "Pill-Popping Pets - Dogs, Cats, and Mood-Altering Drugs" contemplates the rising use of prescription, behavior-modifying drugs being administered by loving, caring, thoughtful pet owners. In the piece, Mr. Vlahos gives a few reasons some of the pet owners interviewed gave for medicating their pets. I'll let you read the article, but I also wanted to add my two-cents about why I think some domesticated animals are acting more like humans rather than...animals.
I think part of the reason is because many pet owners treat their animals like people. They feed them human food, they let them sleep in the same bed with them, they take them with them when they go shopping or out to eat, they talk to them like they are children. Animals "learn" by interacting with people. After awhile, the animal begins to associate certain things with certain outcomes. Pets, dogs in particular, will then begin to exhibit the traits it has picked up from its owner, sometimes showing sadness, uneasiness, depression, hyper-activity, etc etc.
Another reason why some pets are acting more human is because the world's climate is changing. This directly affects animals, domesticated or not. Animals are quick to pick up on changes in the environment and domesticated animals in particular will begin to "act out" in human ways as a response, again depression, nervousness, increased anxiety, etc etc.
In this day and age of "pills for everything" (and their multitude of side-effects, that often are worse than the actual symptoms), we have been taught that popping a pill will make everything better. If it works for us, why not for our pets, we ask. I guess the thing will be to not hold our pets responsible when they do things like attack people when they "haven't had their meds".