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Dear Jill and other vet people

I came across an article today about an experiment going on at Cornell University Veterinary Medical College. They are trying to use psychotropic drugs to deal with the 'wildness' of feral cats. Aside from the horror I feel about this, the situation lends itself to an interesting thought. The game plan is to capture about 20 feral cats and treat them for personality disorders; ie, anxiety and fear.

People on this list have tried to initiate a means to prove homeopathy to the skeptical and uninitiated. Well, here is a possibility to connect with the Veterinary College and suggest they include homeopathic treatment in their research design. We would need to have some professional homeopathic vets available to work with the research team at Cornell. I sent a post to the college today trying to make contact with the research team.

Are you, or others interested in pursuing this idea? Let me know

tanya
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The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy has funding available for research
projects. (I am the Pres. Elect for 2 more weeks, then Pres. Mar. 1).
Cornell is currently doing a study with HomeoPet, a combination remedy
company. We are not involved in this study, as we are strictly classical.

All the Deans of the vet schools in the US and Canada have been notified of
our existence. Getting them to acknowledge us is another story. The vet
students in the US and Canada have been great- a large number are interested
in alternative therapies- that's where we've decided to focus our energy-
ie, on the next generation!

I am as horrified about the study as you are. The psychotrophic drugs are so
unpredictable and randomly effective in dogs and cats. This sounds like
Cornell is trying to do some clinical trials for a drug company, or
otherwise experiment on the "extreme" cases for ideas to apply to pets.
(BTW, I consider feral cat fear behavior normal.)

I would love for the AVH to cooperate in a study with them. FYI- there's a
new behaviorist at a major vet school (name withheld on purpose) who has
studied homeopathy. After a brief verbal excursion probing the
openmindedness of her new institution, she decided it was best to remain in
the closet about homeopathy! Get the picture?

Changes come slowly in most of the vet schools. The AVH is working to get
the word out, and the students seem to be the best bet at this time.

I'm glad you contacted Cornell. Please keep me posted!

Regards,
Shelley
on 2/10/02 5:20 PM, tanya marquette at tamarque@frontiernet.net wrote: