Dog Appeasing Pheromones

[Wudang]

I've always thought of human pheromone ads and articles as overblown hype. However my wife was considering getting some Dog Appeasing Pheromones from our vet to see if they helped calm our second rescue dog who is a 20month old mongrel who acts as if we was taken from his dam too young and then lived in a shed - terribly insecure. All I can find on google and even turbo10 seems to be ads for it (which should maybe tell me something). Does anyone know of any studies?

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Originally posted by Wudang
I've always thought of human pheromone ads and articles as overblown hype. However my wife was considering getting some Dog Appeasing Pheromones from our vet to see if they helped calm our second rescue dog who is a 20month old mongrel who acts as if we was taken from his dam too young and then lived in a shed - terribly insecure. All I can find on google and even turbo10 seems to be ads for it (which should maybe tell me something). Does anyone know of any studies?

ANECDOTE ALERT

We've begun to sell it for dogs nervous of fireworks and have had some remarkably good feedback. It ain't double-blinded but the owners have been happy.

This is all Medline has. No blinding and no controls.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12708592

[Rolfe]

What do you reckon to the cat stuff? Feliway, is it?

Rolfe.

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Originally posted by Rolfe
What do you reckon to the cat stuff? Feliway, is it?

Rolfe.

Anecdotally? ;)

Not sure. I've dispensed it a number of times but have not been steam-rollered by the requests for repeats.

[rppa]

I never heard of this before this thread. Prompted me to do a little searching.

The closest I came to a scientific paper was this:

http://www.vin.com/VINDBPub/SearchPB/Proceedings/PR05000/PR00024.htm

which appears to be a paper from a World Veterinary Conference in 2001, prsented by Clauded Beata of France. I don't see anything like a description of the clinical trials there though or any sort of experimental description. As scientific papers go, it seems a little loose in style.

[Wudang]

Thanks for the advice but me and Mrs Wudang have decided the 2nd dog is too much for us. Mrs W is 5 months pregnant so floors covered in dog waste is not something she wishes to handle. The chewed shoes, books, curtains et al are just stuff but our wedding photo was important to us. The RSPCA don't have room to take him back so he's going into kennels until they have room.
He wants to be a good dog and doesn't understand why we are angry about him using the area by the dinner table as a toilet even though we try not to show the anger. Our other dog is upset because she knows whats bad. I'm not even angry about our dog getting annoyed with the new dog, trying to nip him and getting me instead - on the inner thigh which stings. I feel like crap after having a lot of fun with them both in the snow but we can't keep that dog. he needs people who are there 24 hours.