If You Have Pets... The Easiest Way To Get Your Pets To Take Their Medicine

Just like with kids, taking medication as prescibed is of the utmost importance to a quick and speedy recovery. Pilling a pet can cause undue trauma, but can be avoided. Apothepet, a FLAVORx Company, has found the easiest way to get your pet to take the medicine so crucial to their survival.

(PRWEB) October 30, 2005 -- How do you give medicine to your pet? Put a pill in its food bowl and hope your pet eats it, or try to force-feed a pill down its throat? Well if that's standard operating procedure at your house, FLAVORx (www.flavorx.com) has a solution to make pill-popping a pleasure.

Just like your kids, when your pet is sick, you want medicine to make it better. But just like kids, it can be hard to get pets to swallow medicine, unless it just tastes great. Helen a big wooly Akida, is 12 years old, and has quite a few medical problems. But one problem she doesn’t have is “taking medication for her medical problems". Quite the opposite actually: Helen's Owner says ”I think she would have the FLAVORx medicine as meals if we let her because she always wants more.

Instead of a treatment, it's a treat.”

The FLAVORx Story began in 1992 when pharmacist Harold and Kenny Kramm developed concentrated flavoring to use to ease the trauma of giving medicine to Kenny’s youngest daughter Hadley who was born with a seizure disorder and cerebral palsy and could not tolerate her liquid Phenobarbital that was so crucial to her existence. As it turned out, lots of kids loved it and sales zoomed. FLAVORx is now dispensed in over thirty five thousand pharmacies across the country.

But as Kenny discovered, for many people, pets are just like kids. Kenny Kramm, FLAVORx Creator said “people were calling in and saying can you flavor a certain medication in tuna flavor, and I'm like why would you want to do tuna for your child? I think that sounds kind of disgusting and they would say no, it's not for my child. It's for my cat.”

So Kramm did several years of research and development and found out that flavored medicine works as well for pets as for people. What do dogs want? Kramm says, “Dogs, usually like beef or bacon the best. Cats like tuna steak, fish chowder or salmon steak."

If they don’t like those flavors, there’s another twenty five to choose from, every single one of them taste tested by Kramm himself.

Kramm says, “Listen, it took a lot, to get me to start tasting liver and tuna. I do it every night now so I don't mind. I have to admit that’s not my favorite part of the day”.

Kramm dispenses his flavored pet meds from his pet pharmacy, Apothepet at Center Pharmacy, 4900 Massachusetts Ave, N.W. Washington D.C. Pet medications can be purchased in person or your vet can call or fax in the prescription so it is ready when you get there to pick it up or get a convenient home delivery. We also take prescriptions from vets everywhere in the country and offer quick UPS deliveries to these locations.

Veterinarians such as Dr. Lee Morgan of the Georgetown Veterinary Hospital tell us that flavoring pet medicine seems so obvious; it’s a wonder that no one did it sooner. Nonetheless, he thinks flavored pet meds fill a major veterinary need.

Dr. Morgan said, “I would say less drama. Less of a problem, leading to more compliance, and with more compliance the animal's going to get better, faster.”

You can get to the FLAVORx website (www.flavorx.com) or the Apothepet website (www.apothepet.com) easily or visit the pharmacy at 4900 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20016 or call 1-866-961-5666 (locally 202-363-9240) or fax 202-363-4312.

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