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Dana64 - you make some good points. Certainly I'm not saying drugs are never warranted. (Heck, I was on Prozac for many years - it's an antidepressant), but the way the article was written it really didn't seem to me to that the bird's issues were so severe that hardcore drugs should be the first go-to remedy. (I looked it up online and Haloperido is an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia ... whereas it sounded like the bird in the article was overbonded to the woman and sexually frustrated... NOT psychotic/phobic/etc). Again, I'm sure the article doesn't tell the whole story, but it seemed to be kind of nonchalant about prescribing drugs to the bird for a situation that might be addressed other ways first... by trying, for example, something like Avicalm.
To be honest, I feel uncomfortable making arguments or presenting strong opinions about this matter since it is pretty far outside the realm of my expertise. I'm not a doctor and have no experience with this substance. My knee jerk reaction was simply that I hoped other people reading that article don't think they should just reach for anti-psychotics for their bird when in quite a few cases the people are exacerbating the problem behavior in the first place (e.g., by not discouraging overbonding or sexual stimulation, by not training their bird to decrease aggression, etc). I know training isn't a cure-all, but the article just kind of confused me.
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