Save Money On Pet Meds
Posted: February 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Make giving pills easy!
I recently bought 5 bags of Pill Pockets- the best things that were ever invented- for about 40 dollars from Pet Treats Plus. In the store these would have set me back about 60 dollars at least. That’s a pretty remarkable savings considering I go through pill pockets at quite a pace now that Bella is on so many medications. Pill Pockets by they way, are an easy way to trick your dog into taking their pills. You just stick the pill inside the little pocket, and present to your dog. They love them so much that they don’t even notice they have injested a pill.
So that’s a good savings right there, but it’s small potatoes compared to the amount of moola you can save on at least some of your dog’s meds. Check to see if any of the meds your dog is on are actually human medications. It is quite common practice these days to give dogs human medications for everything from anxiety (Buspar, Valium, Lorazapam, Prozac, etc.) to pain and anti-flammation meds (Mobic, Robaxin, etc.) The cost of these prescriptions are often astrinomical at your vet, but did you know that you can have your dog’s prescriptions filled at a regular pharmacy for so much less! Yep! It’s true.
Brownie
Our little Brownie- my parent’s spaz-tastic Yorkie who we love more than life itself– has a bit of anxiety problem. So our vet prescibed Buspar. Instead of the 60+ dollars we were paying at the vet, my mom goes to Walmart for his medications and it’s just 5 dollars! This is because Buspar is now available in generic. I never thought I’d say this, but GO WALMART!
Gumbo
I recently clued a friend of mine in on this little med-for-less work-around. His dog Gumbo has major anxiety issues and is on Prozac. At his vet he got 7 Prozac pills for 30 dollars and at the Costco pharmacy he got 30 pills for 27 dollars! How great is that? That took the price from about $4.28 per pill down to 90cents a pill. The only hiccup was that the dog’s Prozac was written to be 32 milligram instead of 30. So the Costco Pharmacist had to call Gumbo’s vet. But for an almost 80% savings I’d say it was well worth the cost.
Another thing that makes it well worth the cost, is hearing the Pharmacist announce, BROWNIE ROSENFELD your prescription is ready. Classic!
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