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Pet Connection guest blogger and DogCars.com product reviewer Kim Campbell Thornton’s new column at MSNBC.com is up, and it’s about pets who go into a funk when the kids return to school:

Some dogs take their unhappiness with separation to extremes. Our Old English Sheepdog, Sugar, used to jump our stucco wall and follow me to school when I was in the sixth grade. She’d show up at the classroom door and refuse to leave until my mother came to get her. That’s not an unusual problem with protective dogs such as the herding breeds, who view kids as part of their “flock.”

Cats can be quite emotionally attached to caregivers, too, and become distressed when their normal routine is interrupted.

With emotional depression, the cat appears to be distraught and may vocalize more than usual, Wright says. Signs of behavioral depression range from lethargy — the cat tends to sleep longer, especially during those times when it’s used to interacting with the person who’s gone — to hyperactivity.

What’s the cure for depressed dogs and cats?

You’ll have to read more to find out.

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