Lawrence - I hear you and your thinking/reasoning on this matter matches ours. Our initial attempt was to see if any vet would be willing to prescribe fluoxetine (Prozac) for Shadow since we thought also that it would be fairly effective given the reading on the matter that we had done. However, we couldn't find a vet that was comfortable with doing so, so here we are now with our cat on valium. :) Maybe we'll ask our vet again about the SSRI (serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor - class of psychiatric medication that Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, and others belong to).

Masaki