Do some children diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder develop querulous disorder?

The outcome of children diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) has yet to be clearly established. Oppositional disorder (OD) first appeared in DSM III (1980), and then ODD replaced it in the DSM III-R (1987). At the time of this writing, there were no published articles in the literature on children followed into adulthood who were previously diagnosed with either OD or ODD.

Moving as a reason for pet relinquishment: a closer look.

One of the most frequently given reasons for relinquishing a companion animal to an animal shelter is that the person or family is moving. Telephone interviews conducted with 57 caregivers who relinquished animal companions to a shelter in the midwestern United States covered details of the move, characteristics both of the caregivers and the animals, and efforts to avoid relinquishment. A human-nonhuman animal bonding scale also was administered.