Anxiety and vet visits
How to Prepare Your Nervous Pet for a Vet Visit
The best time to prepare for a hard vet visit is weeks before it. How to plan with your vet, run a trial at home, and walk in with notes instead of guesses.
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Anxiety and vet visits
Preparing nervous dogs and cats for appointments and other stressful days, with…
Compounding, explained
What compounded medication is, how a prescription gets from your veterinarian to…
Giving medication
When a pill turns into a standoff. Practical ways to get medication…
Heart health
Plain-language guides for pet parents working through a heart murmur, a new…
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Storage and delivery
Pet Medication Arrived Warm? What to Check When a Shipment Shows Up
If medication arrives warm or the ice packs have melted, check the package and the label, and contact our pharmacy team before giving a dose.
Storage and delivery
How to Store Your Pet’s Medication: Liquids, Tablets, and Chews
Different medications need different storage and handling. Follow your prescription label, and ask our pharmacists about the medication we dispensed.
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Anxiety and vet visits
1 guidePreparing nervous dogs and cats for appointments and other stressful days, with your veterinarian’s plan at the center of it.
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1 guideWhat compounded medication is, how a prescription gets from your veterinarian to a compounding pharmacy, and what to look for when you…
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2 guidesWhen a pill turns into a standoff. Practical ways to get medication into dogs and cats, what to check before hiding a…
- Start hereHiding Your Pet’s Pill in Food? Read the Label First
- When Your Pet Won’t Take Their Medication: How Our Pharmacy Can Help
Heart health
2 guidesPlain-language guides for pet parents working through a heart murmur, a new diagnosis, or a new heart medication. Decisions about testing and…
- Start hereYour Vet Prescribed Pimobendan. Here’s How It Works.
- Your Vet Heard a Heart Murmur. Here’s What Happens Next.
Storage and delivery
2 guidesWhere each kind of medication should live between doses, why some liquids need a hard shake, and what to check when a…
- Start herePet Medication Arrived Warm? What to Check When a Shipment Shows Up
- How to Store Your Pet’s Medication: Liquids, Tablets, and Chews
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Anxiety and vet visits
How to Prepare Your Nervous Pet for a Vet Visit
The best time to prepare for a hard vet visit is weeks before it. How to plan with your vet, run a trial at home, and walk in with notes instead of guesses.
Storage and delivery
Pet Medication Arrived Warm? What to Check When a Shipment Shows Up
If medication arrives warm or the ice packs have melted, check the package and the label, and contact our pharmacy team before giving a dose.
Storage and delivery
How to Store Your Pet’s Medication: Liquids, Tablets, and Chews
Different medications need different storage and handling. Follow your prescription label, and ask our pharmacists about the medication we dispensed.
Giving medication
Hiding Your Pet’s Pill in Food? Read the Label First
Peanut butter, pill treats, grapes, avocado. What to check on the label, and which pantry staples should stay nowhere near your pet's medication.
Giving medication
When Your Pet Won’t Take Their Medication: How Our Pharmacy Can Help
Why pets refuse medication, and the dosage forms our pharmacy can prepare when hiding the pill in food stops working.
Heart health
Your Vet Prescribed Pimobendan. Here’s How It Works.
How pimobendan works, why it may be prescribed for certain heart conditions, and how FDA-approved Vetmedin differs from a compounded preparation.
Compounding, explained
Three Reasons Compounding Might Be Right for Your Pet
When an FDA-approved product cannot meet a pet's needs, a veterinarian may prescribe a compounded medication. What that means, and what we can prepare.
Heart health
Your Vet Heard a Heart Murmur. Here’s What Happens Next.
A murmur is a sound, not a diagnosis. How veterinarians may evaluate it, and what to know about any medication that follows.