My dog has his own prescription drug card at Costco now...

[Phentex]

I dropped off the new script for the heart worm medicine and filled out paperwork just for him. The pharmacist said it was much easier to keep up with the pets separately than when they tried combining them with the owners. Plus, he does not have insurance and they may be able to save us some money that way.

Wonder if they'll send him coupons in the mail?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. My diabetic dog had one at Walgreen's. Why do you get heart worm meds

at a human drugstore?

[Phentex]

2. Cause the vet wants twice as much for the same thing...

I could order online but Costco is close and inexpensive.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I can understand getting them from Costco, but surprised it's through

the pharmacy.

[Phentex]

4. Don't know how long they've been doing it...

but there's a big animal display at the front now. They have many of the flea meds without prescription too.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Closest Costco to me is over 200 miles. I've never even been in one.

[Phentex]

7. Good and bad...

I have to curb my spending there. I didn't think I would use it as much as I do but now it's so convenient. I can drop in and just buy bananas!

[Walk away]

10. You can use their "On Line Pharmacy". It's great...free shipping. nt

[mopinko]

6. my little pharmacy does it, too.

but they only stock a few things and the heartworm is mail order.
they always did fill scripts for some things. i think i got pain killers for a bunny when i was a kid.

[rox63]

8. My late Miss Mary kitty was listed as a family member on my Walgreens card

She had kidney disease, and needed a blood pressure med that was also used as a human med. The vet told me I needed to get it at a human pharmacy. And since it was a generic, it was less expensive with the Walgreens card.

[Walk away]

9. Henry has had one for years. Did you know that his meds are taxed and...

mine aren't? I remind him if that just to keep him in his place!

[Phentex]

13. I need to stay very healthy

so that I can afford the dog meds!

I posted recently abut how much Costco saved us on my husband's medicine. It was incredible!

[Walk away]

15. I'm on a couple of different meds so I have scripts at Costco, Walgreens and CVS.

They are all in my area and they all have different prices and take different discount cards on different drugs. If I went to my local yokel pharmacy for all of my meds I would be spending over $600 a month. With a little research and creativity I got it down to about $140. It's an expense but in order to increase my health insurance to get prescription coverage it would cost me twice that much.

So the dogs all have discount drug cards too!

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I checked just today about Rimadyl. It is $120 for 100 of the 100mg chewable.

That is as cheap as the non-chewable caplets you can get online.

[Phentex]

12. We will probably end up needing this at some point...

so far the glucosamine and shorter walks are helping.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. The Rimadyl is outrageously expensive.

There are generics, but none of them are cheap. When all is said and done, it is just another form of Aleve. An NSAID.

We give ours the Rimadyl and Costco's glucosamine and chondroiten pills, which are huge. I have to angle her head straight up, put my thumb and forefinger behind her upper canines, pry her jaw down, drop in the pill and use a finger to push it down her throat. I have to pill both the Border Collie and the GSD. Dogs have almost no gag reflex, so this isn't as hard as it sounds. It looks scary, though, when you do it in the 12" long wood chipper mouth of our GSD!