Dr. Fosters & Smith

I thought you all might be interested - I just received the new Drs. Foster & Smith cat supply catalog, and page 4 has an article on diabetes. I also realized they also have insulin and syringes - though the prices aren't low. They also can compound your pet meds.

Pharmacy: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/pet-meds/pr/c/9547
Compounding Pharmacy: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/General.c ... 47&gid=270

 

I got the same catalog yesterday and noticed the same article. I have plans to wrtie to them - so glad they did that! I have been a customer for over 10 years. I was wondering if they had suringes with 1/2 unit markings - something I was never able to find around here.

 

I get J.D.'s Adequan from them, for a pretty good price.

 

This is the second time they've run that article. It's good, recommends Lantus as "the preferred insulin for cats," but is not great because although they say, "because newly diagnosed cats who receive glargine may become non-diabetic... BG level must be monitored very carefully..." they make no mention of testing BG at home. They list diseases associates with FD, but at the end of the list say, "By strictly controlling a cat's BG, the risk of many of these diseases can be reduced." Again, no mention of home-testing.

I know this isn't really a magazine where we can write to the editor, but this is the second article this winter I have seen which talks all about how important it is to control BG in FD, yet fails to mention home-testing! The other was in Cat Fancy, last Nov. I think. I wrote a letter to them, but I don't think it was published. Although one of the letters that was published made me sick to my stomach how the owner described their cat having dozens of hypo episodes.

Regardless, I do like Foster's & Smith. Some of their product is high priced, others is not, like the Adequan. And their customer service is top notch. They took back the Adequan I had ordered for Gandalf which never got used, gave me a credit, which I used on a terrarium that arrived broken and they replaced that with no extra cost to me.