Pheromonal Mind Control Mellows Moody Mutts 41
StefanJ writes "Two researchers at the Royal School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh have been experimenting with DAP (Dog Appeasing Pheromone) a chemical that calms down dogs.
The study described in this press release subjected dogs in a shelter to the hormone. The homeless animals barked less, and reacted better to visitors.
I've heard that realtors prepping a house for show sometimes put a drip or two of vanilla extract on a kitchen stovetop, in the theory that this particular scent makes people feel at home. A specific Human Appeasing Hormone would really up the ante. You spray it on elementary school kids when the weather is nice, or when a substitute teacher is due. And on jail inmates. And people in malls who are sitting on benches instead of shopping, the damn freeloaders! Oh, Brave New World, that has such psychoactive scents in it!"
The diversity of life will get them. (Score:4, Interesting)
"I couldn't stop shooting. Everyone just smelled like they needed to be dead."
People think erratically enough. Pushing behavior in such a casual way is a dangerous thing.
Seriously though... (Score:2, Interesting)
I recommend it (Score:2, Interesting)
When we moved to a new apartment three years ago, our cat started peeing (not just spraying) in odd places.
I called the vet, who suggested the spray.
We used it - for about a month - until she stopped peeing and started marking the areas herself (now with her facial scent glands).
Re:The diversity of life will get them. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Already Exists (Score:4, Interesting)
Anyone have a list of all the (known?) psychoactive compounds in Marijuana? I'd settle just for a list of the cannibinoids.
Anyway you didn't go into the reason why Marijuana qualifies; Because the stuff that makes you high is the hormones of the female plant.
Re:I recommend it (Score:4, Interesting)
I tried it with my male cat and it didn't work... Too stubborn I guess.
The way that this stuff works is by converting the urge to mark using spraying (which is not really urine, but an oily substance made by separate glands) into an urge to mark using facial hormones. That's why cats rub their faces on people - to mark their territory.