Juni & Chloe are going on Prozac for a while

[smokey the elder]

Can't you get generic Prozac (fluoxetine) at Wal-mart? Their generic scrips are $4, I thought.

[emily_the_spoiled]

I know that I am probably paying more than I might at Walmart (but I refuse to shop at Walmart ... another story and not for this post). But I have also found that Oliver reacts REALLY badly when I change brands of Prozac. So I am very specific about what I want and many times a larger people pharmacy is unwilling to do something like that, especially for a pet. That means that I pay $29 for 100 tablets every three months

I have also tried your trick with the PillPockets for another one of my guys on Bethanechol. In that case I actually split the tablet in half (because it is pretty big) and do the same thing. I put them down for Frankie with Temptations and they are GONE in a few minutes.

BTW, Oliver has been on 10mg for about 5 years now and it is still working just fine! My house would not survive without it

SAS, maybe if Chloe doesn't like the Prozac you can try giving her the alcohol (Bailey's would work) and that would mellow her out

[krazyaboutkatz]

The short time that I used Prozac on both Storm and RB Starr, me vet called in the prescription to Costco, similar to Sam's Club, because she said it would be much cheaper here. I think that Storm's doseage was probably too high because all he wanted to do was to sleep. Later on he also refused to eat. I was later told that usually only dogs may become anorexic from prozac. I had to wean him off of prozac and he hasn't had any since.

[sasvermont]

The short time that I used Prozac on both Storm and RB Starr, me vet called in the prescription to Costco, similar to Sam's Club, because she said it would be much cheaper here. I think that Storm's doseage was probably too high because all he wanted to do was to sleep. Later on he also refused to eat. I was later told that usually only dogs may become anorexic from prozac. I had to wean him off of prozac and he hasn't had any since.

Would you happen to recall if the price was cheap? I think I will ask for a new prescription when I go for Prue's appointment in June. And then take the prescription to Costco for filling.

Thanks so much for your advice.

Right now, Chloe is playing hard to get about eating her treats and meds. She ate them last night, but I will leave her alone to eat them, in her own little room for the afternoon. Juni ate her's in a second, just like yesterday. Chloe is going to be the tough one.

I have never fed my cats in the morning, even when I fed them canned food. That way they never would wake me up early to eat. I usually fed them at night, upon arriving home from work. So I try to feed them their treats in the afternoon or evening.

I will adjust the pill pocket size. I would like to save a little expense too, so smaller is better. Between the Greenies, pill pockets, medications, regular food, canned food, it's costing a small fortune. I have been lucky so far with my cats and they have both had very few problems, thank goodness. I don't begrudge they money just want to make sure I don't spend my life's savings on these two.

[Cataholic]

Would you happen to recall if the price was cheap? I think I will ask for a new prescription when I go for Prue's appointment in June. And then take the prescription to Costco for filling.

You don't need a 'new' prescription to switch pharmacys. I presented the script, and had one month's supply filled at CVS, and then when it was time to renew, I went into Kroger, and gave them the bottle and told them I wanted to switch. They called CVS and had it switched to Kroger...

I have never fed my cats in the morning, even when I fed them canned food. That way they never would wake me up early to eat. I usually fed them at night, upon arriving home from work. So I try to feed them their treats in the afternoon or evening.

Do you mean you put down food for your cats one time a day, at about 5 pm???

[sasvermont]

You don't need a 'new' prescription to switch pharmacys. I presented the script, and had one month's supply filled at CVS, and then when it was time to renew, I went into Kroger, and gave them the bottle and told them I wanted to switch. They called CVS and had it switched to Kroger...

Thanks... I've never switched a prescription to another Pharmacy. Didn't know that. Thanks.




Do you mean you put down food for your cats one time a day, at about 5 pm???

I have always free fed dry food for my cats. But when I was feeding them canned food as well, they were fed at night so that they would not expect it to be given in the morning too. So yes, once a day for wet food. Then years ago, I stopped with the wet food. They usually ate it so fast that they threw it up anyway. And their teeth improved once I stopped the wet food.

Now, with the treats for the meds, I will resume the evening routine so that they don't stomp all over me in the AM to be fed a treat.

I know, I'm odd.

[Cataholic]

Well, you may be odd...I don't know about that. LOL. But, I think you mean you have dry food down for them all day long, not that you put dry food down for them one time a day, in the evenings.

I never thought about making wet food a night time thing instead of a 5 am thing. BUT, my cats don't really bug me too much in the am...and I get up at the crack of dawn anyhow, some of them are still sleeping! In fact, Jasper stays in bed if I get up before 6. Silly dog.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Would you happen to recall if the price was cheap? I think I will ask for a new prescription when I go for Prue's appointment in June. And then take the prescription to Costco for filling.

Thanks so much for your advice.

Right now, Chloe is playing hard to get about eating her treats and meds. She ate them last night, but I will leave her alone to eat them, in her own little room for the afternoon. Juni ate her's in a second, just like yesterday. Chloe is going to be the tough one.

I have never fed my cats in the morning, even when I fed them canned food. That way they never would wake me up early to eat. I usually fed them at night, upon arriving home from work. So I try to feed them their treats in the afternoon or evening.

I will adjust the pill pocket size. I would like to save a little expense too, so smaller is better. Between the Greenies, pill pockets, medications, regular food, canned food, it's costing a small fortune. I have been lucky so far with my cats and they have both had very few problems, thank goodness. I don't begrudge they money just want to make sure I don't spend my life's savings on these two.

I'm pretty sure that it was. I had thought that I had posted more about it here on PT but I haven't been able find what the price was and it was several years ago. Now I'm having aggression problems with Pearl. She just started attacking poor Colby a few days ago. I started a thread in cat behavior.