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The advantages of buying medication from a Vet
Well, for me they are definitely advantages!
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I buy Pereg's medication from my Vet even though he would give me a [free] prescription which I could take to a pharmacy to get filled at less than he charges me - there are no online veterinary pharmacies here to which I could send the prescription so I would have to go to a regular pharmacy.
Prescription medication laws here are very strict and only one month's supply of any prescribed medication can be supplied by a pharmacy at any one time, and they require a new prescription each month. As Pereg is on Phenobarbitone, which is a barbiturate, the maximum a pharmacy could dispense on prescription is one box of 30 tablets each month, which for her is only a 20 day supply.
However, Ram will order in and supply me with as many boxes as I request [he keeps a couple of boxes in the surgery for emergency only so when I need more I phone in an order, pay by credit card over the phone, then arrange for them to be collected once he or one of the nurses phone me to say they are in. As Pereg is not due for her check-up/blood tests/shots until 19 April and I do not have sufficient pills to last until then, I phoned in an order this morning and at Ram's suggestion ordered sufficient to last until after her October check-up/blood tests to save me having to organise another pick up before then.
I think I am going to have to buy a very secure small safe, as if any of the druggies in town ever heard that I will have 360 strong barbiturates in my home...