Pet Meds - Does Your Pet Have to Take Them?

Does your pet have to take one or more medications on a regular basis for an underlying or chronic medical condition? As our pets age they can often come down with the very same illnesses that strike humans. Studies have shown that pets more often than not come down with the very same chronic illnesses that affect their owners such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and the list goes on.

Many of the medications that pets take for these modern day chronic illnesses are the very same medications that their pet owners take only in lesser doses of course. The pet owner more often than not ends up paying way too much money for their pets medications when they simply do not have to.

There's this widespread social belief that pet medications must be purchased from a veterinarians office. This is simply not so. Many pet medications can be filled at a retail pharmacy. The very same pharmacy that you would purchase your medicine from. The majority of pet owners do not know this. All a pet owner has to do is simply ask their veterinarian for a prescription because they would prefer to get their pets medicine filled at a retail pharmacy.

It's important to note that not all pet medications can be filled at a retail pharmacy. The reason that pet medications can be purchased cheaper at a retail pharmacy than at your vets office is because the vets office doesn't buy in bulk like a retail pharmacy would. A national chain store like Walmart for instance certainly buys in larger quantities than a typical individual owned veterinarian clinic.

Pet owners simply need to ask their veterinarian if their pets prescription can be filled at a retail pharmacy. Many pet owners don't even know to ask this simple question. Some vets will volunteer this information to their clients to help them save money but many will not simply because they are out to make a buck on the medicine.

Medicine purchased at a vets office is more expensive from the git go because they paid more for the medicine to begin with from their vendor. The office then marks the medicine up 10-30% and even more than that in some cases so they can turn a profit on it. It's an additional revenue source for them.
You may (not saying that you will) get some resistance from the vets office if you ask for a prescription to be filled at a retail pharmacy. Simply let the vets office know that you know that if the prescription can be filled at a retail pharmacy you'll pay far less for it than if its filled at their office. If they still give you a bunch of resistance then you're probably better off finding a veterinarian who will better meet your needs and cost concerns.

Pet insurances and pet prescription plans can be readily found at big box chain pet stores but be very careful about selecting and paying for these plans because many of these plans are cleverly designed to simply take your money while providing very little if anything in the way of any meaningful savings benefit. When you read their marketing literature it all sounds really good but all the catches and surprises happen when you go to use the benefit. Many times you'll get a bunch of excuses as to why your plan won't cover or partially covers a given medicine. Many paid pet prescription plans simply take your money and that's the bottom line honest truth. It can't be stressed enough to be sure you do your research before buying into any paid pet prescription plan. Know exactly what you're getting for your money and be sure to read all the fine print.

An alternative option to high veterinarian medicine prices and paid pet prescription plans is to use a high quality pet discount prescription card like the one provided by Discount Rx Services. Their card is accepted by over 60,000 retail pharmacies from major national chains to local and regional units all across the united States.

The pet discount prescription card does not have any periodic costs or fees associated with it and absolutely no hidden catches or surprises to deal with when using the card at a retail pharmacy. Typical savings with the pet discount prescription card is about 47% off a retail pharmacies normal price and as high as 90% off in some cases which makes pet meds very affordable when compared to paying veterinarian retail prices and paid pet prescription plan prices.

Its important to note that not all pet meds can be filled at a retail pharmacy and that savings will vary depending on the medication being filled. Either way its very hard to beat the Discount Rx Services free Pet Discount Prescription Card.

Simply present the pet discount prescription card along with your pets prescription to the pharmacy you normally go to for your own medications and instantly get the applicable discounted rate on your pets medicine. No catches or strings attached.