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Prescribing mild sedatives or anxiolytics (like gabapentin or trazodone) for anxious patients to take before leaving home.

This approach was not only stressful for the animal but dangerous for the practitioner and diagnostically incomplete. An animal under extreme duress will not display accurate clinical signs. A heart rate elevated by fear masks cardiac disease; a cat refusing to move due to arthritis might be misdiagnosed as "just grumpy."