Pet Medications

Fill Your Pet's Prescription at the Same Counter as Your Own

Your veterinarian hands you a prescription and you assume it has to go back through the clinic. Often it does not. Many of the drugs written for animals are the same drugs people take, and a licensed pharmacy can dispense them.

We fill pet prescriptions at our Jefferson Blvd counter in Culver City, for dogs, cats, and smaller animals, alongside the rest of the household's medications.

Getting it filled takes three things

The written script

Carry it in yourself or have the clinic transmit it.

Stock or order

Routine drugs are here. Unusual ones we special order.

Counter or door

Collect it with no line, or take free delivery.

Pet prescriptions do not run through human health insurance, so you settle up at the counter with cash, check, or a card.

What gets checked before it leaves the counter

Dose against body weight

Sean Rahimi, PharmD, reads the milligrams on the prescription against your animal's weight before anything is counted out.

The form it actually comes in

You learn up front whether the drug is made as a tablet, a capsule, or a liquid, instead of finding out at home with a cat who will not swallow a pill.

Everything else on the list

When an animal is on more than one medication, the combination gets reviewed the same way it would for a person.

Never dose an animal out of your own cabinet

Acetaminophen can kill a cat at an amount a person would not feel.
Ibuprofen and naproxen cause stomach bleeding and kidney damage in dogs and cats.
Xylitol, the sweetener in some sugar free liquids and gums, is poisonous to dogs.
Shrinking a human dose to match a smaller body is not how animal dosing works.
A pharmacist is at the counter Monday through Friday, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, if you want something checked before you give it.

Have the prescription in front of you? Read it to us and we will tell you what we can supply.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Bring the written prescription in, or have the clinic send it to us. We dispense what your veterinarian authorized, at the strength and quantity written. We cannot prescribe for an animal ourselves, and we cannot change a written dose without hearing back from the clinic first. If something looks wrong for your pet's size, we ask.

Some prevention products are sold only through veterinary distributors, so not everything your clinic hands out is available to a retail pharmacy. Others are ordinary prescriptions we can obtain. Tell us the exact product name and strength on the label and you will get a straight answer about whether we can supply it.

No. We do not compound, so a custom strength or a flavored liquid is not something we prepare here. What we can do is tell you which strengths and dosage forms the manufacturer actually makes, then let your veterinarian choose the closest option that works for your animal's weight.

We can send the refill request to your veterinarian once the prescription runs out of refills. The clinic makes the decision, and some will want a recent exam before authorizing more of an ongoing medication. Start the request a few days before the last dose so your pet does not run dry.

Come alone. Your pet does not need to be in the store. Bring the prescription and know your animal's name and current weight, since both belong on the label and both matter when the dose gets checked. If the clinic already sent the prescription over, just tell us who it was written for.

Pet Medications

Fill Your Pet's Prescription at the Same Counter as Your Own

Getting it filled takes three things

What gets checked before it leaves the counter

Frequently Asked Questions

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