They do. However, the drugs your pet needs may not be off patent, and thus you have to buy branded.
A lot of pet meds are people meds and can be filled at regular pharmacies. A lot of pharmacies can get generic versions of your pets meds. You get your vet to call in scripts to the pharmacy, or get a written prescription, a lot of vets are charging fees for online pharmacy interactions, but less than their fill fees, 3$ vs 15$. Fill fee is the base fee no matter what comes next, 5 pills or 500, they’ll get that minimum. For Heartworm, and Flea and tick prevention the old standbys exist affordably in Ivermectin and afoxolaner, and are available over the counter. Getting priced out of petship is real. Private equity… blah bleh blah
I grew up in a time when pets got sick they died. Now you are expected to pay sometimes ten of thousand of dollars to keep them alive. Pet insurance and pet meds is a bizarre world to live in, one that I will no longer participate in.
Because no one gives a shit about animals. I mean, gives even less of a shit than they do with humans.
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Hate-spending sounds like regular spending but with curse-words and frustrated gestures.
You just match the active compound and dosage. Then you can buy any generic pet drug. Over here, it’s the norm. Pharmacies won’t even stock up pet-specific drugs if they have a generic human counterpart. Works just fine.
My pets have always used generic drugs.
Edit-they cost less than the same amount of human drugs too.
My dog gets several generic drugs including Alaprazolam (xanax) and fluoxtene (Prozac)
They do…
(non-human) Animals can’t vote 😿
(And animal “owners”/guardians do not have enough sway in politics)
Are pet medications still just expired human meds? Or is that an old wives tail?
I wouldn’t be surprised if drugs that failed quality control were labeled for animal use.
It depends on the meds. We were doing a synthesized injection drug for my dog’s elbow dysplasia and arthritis, and that was a custom, specialized, expensive drug. The alternative to carprofen and gabapentin were cheap though. I think we got them and his allergy meds from Costco. Most expensive dog we ever had.
Yea but don’t tell me even after all that you still don’t look at him and your heart melts.
Worth every penny.
