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Celia: giving Prozac to her dog by accident??

posted 8 years ago by prettyh
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I'm just watching the most recent episode now (Celia/Nathan), and I'm honestly not sure if I can get through the whole thing. Celia's hoard of stuff is pretty bad, but nothing viewers haven't seen before. It's her animal hoarding that's really disturbing to me. Aside from her having 13 visibly undernourished dogs, she seems really clueless about how to take care of any of them. Her explanation about why one dog needs to take laxatives made no sense... and then she accidentally gives him PROZAC??

Why is a human dose of Prozac in a container that could even be mistaken for a veterinarian dose?!? I worked in healthcare for more than 10 years and I've never seen an adult prescription that looked like anything a dog would have.

She's been forced to give up ten of the thirteen dogs, but her seemingly total lack of self-awareness makes me wonder if she can take care of the remaining three. Or herself, really. What's to say she doesn't accidentally ingest canine meds at some point herself?

It's frustrating to see examples of people who aren't thriving while living alone but there don't seem to be ongoing resources to ensure safety. And is it bad that, sometimes when I'm watching these shows, I worry more about the animals than the people? (I'm a terrible person. Gah.)

Anyway, just putting this here for anyone else who's seen this one and might share my pessimism. :-\

[–] GraceFromSoCal 8 years ago

The scary thing about the medicine mishap is she's a [retired] REGISTERED NURSE!! Oh my goodness, if she could somehow mistake human Prozac for dog medicine, who knows what she did to her patients?!

And then her very bizarre explanation/understanding of what the medicine she was giving her dog was for. She said it was because he "doesn't have a liver" while the person on the phone [at the vet's] said it was nothing but a laxative. First of all, no mammal that I'm aware of can live without a liver! Second, if she's giving this poor dog a laxative and doesn't even know that that's what it's for, oh, shoot, I'm just shaking my head in disbelief.

I wish that Animal Control had been brought in so that she'd be subject to periodic check-ins to make sure her remaining three dogs are cared for properly.

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[–] Snoopygirl353 8 years ago

She was a nurse, I forgot about that. Scary.

[–] prettyh 8 years ago

Oh my god - I somehow missed the fact that she'd been a RN! That adds a whole new level of horror to her story!

[–] avortac4 (3565) 2 years ago

"The scary thing about the medicine mishap is she's a [retired] REGISTERED NURSE!"

As Cesar Millan often says, you can graduate from Harvard, but it doesn't mean you know how to walk a dog.

I don't think any of these hoarders know ANYTHING about dog psychology, people think of dogs only materialistically-emotionally; dogs are just something that only need physical stuff like food and shelter, and then they're 'living toys' that can be molded into anything, most often 'little humans'.

This is so detrimental to the animals - yes, they are animals, not 'little humans' or 'babies' - and their psychology, if people knew it, they would be shocked.

So it doesn't surprise me, that some nurse doesn't know at all how to take care of dogs.

[–] LadyJaneGrey 8 years ago

That was unbelievable. OHMIGOD I GAVE THE DOG PROZAC should be a book title.

[–] prettyh 8 years ago

I feel bad for laughing, but I did. I'd totally read that book.

[–] AntwoinD 8 years ago

Dr. Zasio's face was priceless. That was a new one for even her.

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[–] prettyh 8 years ago

There was another recent episode - I can't remember the woman's name at the moment, but I know there were a lot of upset posts here about her - involving countless cages that were found in a hoard, all of which had animal skeletons in them. The woman didn't seem terribly bothered by the discovery, and when she eventually apologized about it, she appeared to be mainly sorry that she hadn't given them a proper burial. Not that her neglect had killed them in the first place. It was galling.

I wonder how much research is out there about any differences between people who hoard "stuff" versus those who hoard animals. It always looks to me like there's a marked difference in the reasons behind the hoards as well as the person's ability to recognize that something is horribly wrong. I don't know.

[–] avortac4 (3565) 2 years ago

As a sidenote; someone once said, 'you can't really own something unless you're ready to give it up'.

I mean, if you are not ready to 'let go' of something, you don't really 'own' it in a true sense, you only own it materialistically and maybe cling to it emotionally. Perhaps this attachment creates the insane emotional attachment the hoarders have; they see some junk as MORE than they should, or what it is. They're not ready to 'let go' of it, but instead, do the opposite; they try to embed it as part of themselves.

They identify with junk, they think all this junk is part of them and their souls, when they SHOULD be seeing they can't really own something in a healthy way unless they're ready to let it go.

I read it a long time ago in a book, where someone's bike was stolen in the story, and the other character was amazed it didn't phase the owner of the stolen bike that much. It was a 'cool bike', but the owner had already 'let go' of it long before it was stolen, so it didn't matter to him.

This kind of show, and these kind of obsessed people really make you think about humanity, ownership and psychological and spiritual aspects to the material side. I wonder what would happen if these hoarders took LSD or 'magic mushrooms' in a controlled situation..

The whole 'hoarding' situation reminds me of what the Christ talked about; these people really don't have faith, so they try to put their trust in junk. Basically, junk has replaced the place where the Creator, the Divine Spirit should be. There's nothing divine about a pile of junk, especiallly psychologically speaking.

If these people had faith, they could just let go of all the junk and let the Great Spirit fill themselves. The junk can't fill the emptiness in their souls anyway, but these people seem to think it can, even against the evidence to the contrary.