This paper is the result of an ethnographic research in pet stores and veterinary clinics in southern Brazil. Besides, it broaches the recent changes in medical and veterinary practice, in particular through its relationship with the pet segment markets. This reflection focuses on the emergence of psychiatric diagnosis in pets, mainly the depression and its forms of medicalization treatment. In general, the discussion falls directly in a range of recent researches on human-animal relations in anthropology. Here, this new field is treated as a privileged mean for dialogue with topics such as health, disease and biosociality, especially with regard to how nature has been systematically modified in favor of biopolitics dispositions.
Pets; Dog Depression; Medicalization; Biosociality