(FORTUNE Magazine) – LOS ANGELES -- Pet psychology (is) a growing field practiced at least part time by more than 100 veterinarians around the country and taught at an increasing number of veterinary schools . . . There was the case of the golden retriever who became so alarmed at thunderstorms that she regularly ran around knocking over furniture . . . Sharon L. Crowell-Davis, an assistant professor of animal behavior at the University of Georgia, took that case . . . The retriever, which Professor Crowell-Davis declined to identify because of the confidentiality of the patient-doctor relationship, is showing steady improvement, she said. -- From an article in the New York Times.