Dr. Casara Andre
Speaking Notes
Support for practitioners responding to exposures & intoxications.
Science-based, medically-informed education for animal caregivers.
Dr. Casara Andre | Veterinarian
Creating Safety for Animals
Psycon | April 2026
Session Slides
Summary
As psychedelic use expands, animal safety and consent are often overlooked. This session explores how altered human states have the potential to impact the animals around us.
This talk aims to highlight the ways that psychedelic experiences impact not just the human but also the animals in our family that we hold so dear. Learn how it is possible to honor an animal’s experience alongside our own.
Lecture References
One Health Data Collection & Tracking
Safety & Awareness
Terminology
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Zooeyia | Animal ⟶ Human (benefit)
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physical movement physiologic, psychological
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Zoonosis | Animal ⟶ Human (harm... usely in form of disease)
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Rabies, leptospirosis, hanta virus, plague
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Anthropoeyia | Human ⟶ Animal (benefit)
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Anthroponoxic | Human ⟶ Animal (harm)
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OneHealth / OneWelfare | Human-Animal-Ecosystem
Emotional Contagion
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Emotional Contagion From Humans to Dogs Is Facilitated by Duration of Ownership (webpage)
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Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model (webpage)
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Well-Being Contagion in the Family: Transmission of Happiness and Distress Between Parents and Children (webpage)
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Is Stress Contagious? Study Shows Babies Can Catch It from Their Mothers (webpage)
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Psychedelic Chocolates, Mislabeling, and Why Animals Are at Risk (webpage)
Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI) and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)
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Building a Roadmap for Animals in Psychedelic Settings (webpage)
Keep in Touch
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Upcoming Events:
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April 17th 4-5:30p MST
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VeterinaryPsy discussion group event.
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Meet a Colleague | Dr. Jim Codington - Explorer, Veterinarian, Student of Psychedelic Medicine
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June 7th 9a-6p - (PSVetMed 2026) Psychedelic Substances in Veterinary Medicine Conference
About Dr. Andre
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Email: dr.andre@veterinarypsy.org
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casara-andre
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Linktree: https://linktr.ee/casara.andre
Casara Andre DVM (veterinarian) cVMA (veterinary medical acupuncture)
Dr. Casara Andre is a Healer consistently motivated by her desire to help all mammals of all species (human and veterinary) repair and sustain their health and wellbeing.
A veterinarian by education and training, Dr. Andre’s day-to-day mission is creating a safe-haven and incubator-for-ideas opportunities within medical communities. By leveraging the power of cooperation, creating a supportive community, and encouraging creative solutions, she works to support entrepreneurship among Healers that have a vision for positive change in the world.
Dr. Andre is dedicated to providing practical education and harm reduction training to the emerging fields of veterinary cannabis and psychedelic medicines to ensure that veterinary practitioners and animal caregivers have access to science-backed, clinically-applicable, and patient-focused information with these emerging areas of medicine.
Dr. Andre firmly believes that scientific curiosity can and will open unexpected, exciting, and hugely beneficial opportunities within this field but also that scientific rigor and scrutiny must never be neglected.
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Did you know?
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Animals can suffer from emotional and psychological injuries and disease... just like humans.
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Behavioral disease in animals is increasing in parallel to spillover from human emotional disease.
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Behavioral disease in animals threatens animal wellbeing and is a human public health risk.
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