Buying Animal Medication Online?

[China Doll]

Does anybody do this and if so, is there a reliable website?

I am asking as I want to buy advocate for cats (4kg-10kg) for my moggie. The vets is quite expensive and I have seen online offers. I tend to view buying drugs online as something not done at all for humans or animals because it carries to many risks. I can obviously get a prescription.

(I do know that I want to go with advocate and not an alternative).

I'd appreciate any opinions, thank you! :c)

[Buenchico]

I can't answer your question directly but I did recently note that my local Asda pharmacy was promoting both Frontline and Advocate (with big posters advertising prices which I know to be far lower than a vet would charge). Worth trying perhaps?

Chris

[China Doll]

I shall go have a nosey on Asdas site then!

[riptide]

I use Viovets which is an online site, excellent service. Got my last lot of frontline for my dogs off there much cheaper than elsewhere.

[China Doll]

I'll have a look? How do you know with these things what you're getting is the same as what you would get in the vets (or doctors)? This is what worries me.

[ladybirder]

Viovet are very good. My vet charges £8.00 for the prescription so it doesn't work out any cheaper. Glad you're going for Advocate.

[China Doll]

Mine is going to charge £37 for 3 months worth which does seem a little steep to me but maybe it's the norm. I've just been looking at viovet and how to order with a prescription :c)

[ladybirder]

How much is your vet going to charge you for the prescription china?

[boxtops]

It does depend on your vet - our old vet used to charge over 50 quid for Stronghold, the new one charges much less. PS I don't like Advocate, we found it far too runny - it upset the cats.

[China Doll]

I don't know, I need to find out tomorrow but I can buy 6 months worth for £25 from viovet and it's going to cost me £74 for six months directly from vet. Even if he charges me £20 for the prescription, that is still a saving.

[China Doll]

Maybe I'll just get 3 months initially then boxy. I've been reading up on others and I do like the sound of advocate the most currently so I'd like to see how he responds to it.

[jno]

I don't suppose your cat would get free prescriptions if it's over 60 in cat years?

[China Doll]

Given his behaviour at the vet yesterday, I'm lucky he wasn't put down as a hazard to humans jno... safe to say he's not a vet fan.

[jno]

get him a hoody

http://www.google.co....uCzBA&ved=0CGIQ8wIwAA

[boxtops]

china, I'm currently paying about 40 quid for 6 vials of Stronghold - from the vet - and I think it's far superior to Advocate.

Our old vet changed to Advocate - God knows why - and we had real problems with Advocate, the manufacturers in the end paid for a nurse to come and show me how to use it. It's very runny indeed, you need to dab it on in 2 or 3 places across the back of the neck underneath the fur, and it dribbles like fury. It dribbled down No 1 Son's neck to where he could lick it, and he started foaming at the mouth.
Stronghold is a neat little vial, a couple of dabs and it just sits on the skin at the back of the neck. I recommend it.

[China Doll]

Do they do this type for cats? http://www.google.co....3&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:43

[boxtops]

Jeez, I can just see No1 son wearing that gimp mask, jno - he'd shred it in minutes. He got the Elizabethan collar off before we even got to the car - he'd completely panic in that mask.

[jno]

warning: AVG says China's last link was to a dangerous site. No idea if this is true, obviously.

[China Doll]

Stronghold doesn't seem to cover everything advocate does is the only problem I have with it boxy :-/

[China Doll]

Was just a pic of Anthony Hopkins in a hannibal mask... :-S

[boxtops]

what's the difference these days, then, china? It didn't used to cover roundworm - all I do is get a jab as an extra when they go for their annual boosters. My guys have been on Stronghold (apart from the Advocate interval) for about 4 years, no problems.