anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A lot of pet meds are people meds and can be filled at regular pharmacies. A lot of pharmacies can get generic versions of your pets meds. You get your vet to call in scripts to the pharmacy, or get a written prescription, a lot of vets are charging fees for online pharmacy interactions, but less than their fill fees, 3$ vs 15$. Fill fee is the base fee no matter what comes next, 5 pills or 500, they’ll get that minimum. For Heartworm, and Flea and tick prevention the old standbys exist affordably in Ivermectin and afoxolaner, and are available over the counter. Getting priced out of petship is real. Private equity… blah bleh blah
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I grew up in a time when pets got sick they died. Now you are expected to pay sometimes ten of thousand is dollars to keep them alive. Pet insurance and pet meds is a bizarre world to live in, one that I will no longer participate in.
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 days ago
The time you grew up in sucks
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Paying thousands of dollars to keep a pet alive sucks as well. Pricing people our of pets suck.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re both right these things BOTH suck. We need to live in a world where we have enough disposable income to treat the occasional medical emergency or ongoing supportive care of our pets, like arthritis meds or special diets so they don’t just have to die and it would be nice too if vet care was significantly more affordable.
Mesophar@pawb.social 2 days ago
Definitely agree. I’ve fallen on both sides of that ability to afford treatments for pets, but I find the “just let sick pets die” sentiment disturbing.