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AZPops
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Jun 29, 2014

Prescription Diet .. A Rant by Pops

To this cotton picking day, I still don't understand WHY a Dog, or his/her Person NEEDS A PRESCRIPTION to purchase the DANG GONE FOOD!

I keep Calvin's prescriptions with me (which these folks who's into saving trees would also protest the waist of products made from trees).

Anyways, I stayed up to drive over to Petsmart to pick up Calvin's Hill's Hypo-Allergenic Biscuits. I get there when they open, rush in (so I can get back an get some Z's) lay 5 bags of the stuff down on the counter/register. Pull out my prescription from my wallet, is when the fun began, sheezzzz!

I'm told I have to get a special card from Banfield before they can sell the stuff to me. OK, head to the receptionist, after which it was as if I was speaking to a relative of the Three Stooges.

Finally after 10 minutes and not even close to acquiring the special Banfield card, and decoder ring (all of which would make a writer for the Seinfeld show proud). I told her to forget about it, then asked her for my prescriptions back.

As I'm walking out of the store. I pass the clerk / Petsmart employee who has the 5 bags of the stuff on his counter, he asked what's wrong?

Forget about it! Waste of my Dang Time is what's wrong!

I said this before, and I'll say it again! THERE ISN'T ANY MEDS/DRUGS IN THE FOOD I BUY, SO WHY THE NEED FOR A PRESCRIPTION! WHY the WASTE OF GOOD PAPER!


Pops!
  • States are legalizing marijuana but you have to have a prescription for dog food. Something wrong here.
  • Can you order online? I think you can get most "prescription" pet food products from Pet Food Direct w/o having to jump through any hoops.
  • Yep! I don't understand it either. I don't think you can make meth with it or smoke it, so why make you have a prescription other than another way to gouge the customer.

    I forgot my dog's prescription the last time I went in for his "special" food, I left it laying on the counter too and wife had to stop by with the prescription later on.

    I still have a hard time believing the food is helpful. The longest living dog we ever owned ate anything and everything and lived to be 18 years old. She got dogzimers and had to be put down.

  • No prescription needed for therapeutic pet foods, pharmacy board rules

    Jun 1, 2008
    DVM360 MAGAZINE



    Columbus, Ohio — Prescriptions and veterinarian-client-patient relationships are not needed for consumers to purchase therapeutic pet food, according to the Ohio Board of Pharmacy, which issued an update to veterinarians stating that Ohio law does not consider therapeutic food a "dangerous drug," and therefore it requires no prescription oversight.

    Pharmacy board Executive Director Bill Winsley likens such products to Tylenol, which is sold over the counter. In addition, federal regulations do not restrict the sale of therapeutic pet foods to veterinary practices, he says.


    This is pretty typical for every state, the "prescription" food is a marketing designation and the decision by Petsmart is a business decision to support Banfield hospitals.
  • Stop playing their game pops! Make your own with this approved by vets dog treats! Get your cookie cutter out!

    http://www.dogtreatrecipes.org/hypoallergenic-dog-treats.htmlHERE!

    Here too!