Dogs and Other Pets Suffer From Emotional Illnesses –And Sometimes it’s Just a Training Problem Pets, like people, can suffer from emotional illnesses. Vets who treat mentally ill pets have a tough task: their patients can’t tell them what’s wrong. Often they’ll look to their patient’s owner to figure out what’s going on. Marcie Fallek is a homeopathic veterinarian who works in New York City and in Fairfield County, Conn. A patient once brought a very sick cat into her office. It had scratched itself almost completely bald and had a skin condition, she says, and was suffering from tremors. The owner, anxious that she was keeping her cat cooped…