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Patient enters a friend's apartment and goes directly to the dog. Greets the dog by name, baby-voice-full, for approximately 90 seconds. Eventually turns to the human friend and says 'oh hi.' Has done this to their own grandmother.
Chronic. Worsens with dog presence.
Untreatable. The dog remains the priority.
Patients with Severe Dog-Greeting-Human Preference Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Dog-Greeting-Human Preference Disorder is a severe behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Praelatio canis super humanum — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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