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PETA is requesting that Washington County's (Oklahoma) District Attorney prosecute Carlotta Gail Evans to the fullest extent possible for allegedly shooting a dog twice without provocation last month.

Evans a 55-year-old Animal Control officer, is charged in the March 19th shooting of Smokey, a one-year-old puppy. Conrtrary to previous reports, Smokey has not yet had to have his leg amputated although it is possible. Either way, Smokey is walking with a limp after the shooting.

"She used to stand across the road and call my dogs to the road,” said Jeremiah Shafer. “I caught her one day and asked what she was doing, and she said she was going to get them out in the road so she could shoot them." Evans does have a right to shoot particularly dangerous dogs. In Copan, there is a city ordinance that vicious dogs be put down before they are impounded. Police though say there is never any reason to shoot a dog. "I don't think there's any excuse for shooting a dog like this. The dog was really not harming anybody when she was there," said Washington County Sheriff’s Department Captain Gary Miller.

EARLIER: Animal Control Officer Charged in Dog Shooting

How often have you watched a dog going crazy for the mailman or a passing cat and joked: "That Dog Needs Prozac." Well, your joke is Eli Lilly's reality because a version of Prozac for dogs called Reconcile is here. It's going to be in chewable form and "flavored with a doggie-delectable zing" according to MIT's Technology Review.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Reconcile in February after clinical tests in dogs showed it significantly improved symptoms of separation anxiety, a problem that strikes 10 to 20 percent of canines with varying severity; dogs affected may bark, chew household items, or urinate in inappropriate locations when left alone. The drug, which will go on the market in April and will be sold along with a behavior modification program, is the first product introduced by a new division of Lilly devoted entirely to pets.

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Two other pet drugs were approved early this year: the first diet drug for dogs, Slentrol, and the first motion-sickness drug for dogs, Cerenia. Both are being sold by New York-based Pfizer. Unlike Reconcile, neither drug has ever been prescribed for humans. Dirlotapide, the generic form of Slentrol, was originally tested for human use, but its side effects were deemed intolerable. (Compounds in the same class are being tested for their cholesterol- and triglyceride-reducing properties in humans.)