Veterinary Compounding

Providing specialized custom medications for pet owners and veterinary practices, accommodating cats, dogs, birds, and even exotic animals of all sizes.

When commercially available medications don't meet your pet's needs, compounding offers solutions. Whether your pet requires a specific dosage, a flavored formulation, or an alternative delivery method, our veterinary compounding services can help your veterinarian provide the care your animal companion deserves.

Why Does Veterinary Compounding Matter?

Animals present unique pharmaceutical challenges that differ significantly from human medicine:

Varying Size and Dosage

Animals drastically vary in size and weight. A medication dose appropriate for a Great Dane would be excessive for a Chihuahua. Compounding allows for exact doses tailored to your pet's specific weight and condition.

Taste and Administration

Many animals and pets can be reluctant to take medication. Compounded medications can be prepared in varying palatable flavors to their specific liking.

Medication Shortages

Sometimes, pharmaceutical manufacturers can discontinue veterinary medications, or there may be shortages in supply. We can often prepare discontinued or out-of-stock medications.

Species-Specific Needs

Animal species have physiological characteristics unique to them. We tailor compounded medications specifically for each species.

Animals We Serve

Dogs

Cats

Birds

Horses

Rabbits

Reptiles

Fish

Exotic Animals

Dosage Forms Available

Based on your veterinarian's prescription, we can prepare medication in the following forms to support successful administration:

Flavored Oral Medications

Liquids, suspensions, treats, chews, oral pastes, and capsules in appropriate sizes are available in varying palatable flavors.

Popular flavors: Dogs: beef, chicken, bacon, peanut butter • Cats: fish, chicken, tuna • Birds and exotic animals: various fruit flavors

Transdermal Preparations

For cats and other animals difficult to medicate, transdermal gels can be applied to the inner ear flap, allowing medication absorption through the skin.

Topical Preparations

Medicated ointments and creams, ear medications, eye preparations (as prescribed), and wound care formulations.

Commonly Compounded Veterinary Medications

Thyroid Medications

Includes methimazole for cats with hyperthyroidism, often prepared as flavored liquids or transdermal gels.

Cardiac Medications

Precise doses prepared for animals with cardiovascular conditions.

Pain Management

Appropriately dosed pain medications for post-surgical recovery, arthritis, and other conditions.

Antibiotics

Custom-strength and palatable antibiotics for treating infections.

Behavioral Medications

Anti-anxiety and behavioral medications customized in appropriate doses based on your pet's size and weight.

Dermatological Preparations

Topical medications for skin conditions, allergies, and infections.

Veterinary prescriptions are compounded at our Lake Mary pharmacy for patients in Orlando and all across Florida. More detail about the communities we support can be found on areas we serve from Lake Mary.

Frequently Asked Questions

Local prescription delivery is free.

Yes, all veterinary medications require a valid prescription from a licensed veterinarian. This ensures your pet has been properly examined and that the medication is appropriate for their condition.

Often, yes! We frequently prepare medications as flavored liquids or transdermal gels for difficult-to-medicate cats. Your veterinarian can prescribe an alternative form that may work better for your cat.

Most veterinary prescriptions are completed within 24-48 hours of receiving the prescription. Complex preparations or high-volume periods may require additional time. We'll provide an accurate timeline when we receive your prescription.

Yes, we prepare medications for many exotic species. Your veterinarian will determine appropriate medications and dosing for your specific animal. Contact us to discuss your exotic pet's needs.

Flavors commonly used include chicken, fish, tuna, and beef for cats, and chicken, beef, liver, peanut butter, and cheese for dogs. Tell us the animal and the medication and we will confirm what we can flavor it with. Not every drug is masked equally well by every flavor, and some need more help than others.

Ask your veterinarian about a different dosage form. The usual alternatives are a flavored oral liquid, a small flavored chew, or a transdermal gel applied to the ear for medications suited to that route. Your vet decides which is appropriate for the drug your cat is on and sends us the prescription.

It depends entirely on the drug. Some medications are absorbed through the skin well enough to be dosed that way and are routinely prescribed for cats as transdermal gels. Many are not, and for those the route simply will not deliver the dose. Your veterinarian decides whether it is appropriate for your cat's medication.

Methimazole is one of the medications veterinarians most often ask us to compound for cats, commonly as a flavored liquid or a transdermal gel, because daily tablets long term are difficult in an uncooperative cat. Your veterinarian prescribes the strength, the form, and the monitoring schedule. Send us the prescription and we will confirm turnaround.

Both are commonly compounded into flavored forms for pets when a veterinarian writes for them, and a dose-appropriate liquid or chew is usually far easier to give than a split tablet. Your vet specifies the strength and the form. Ask us which flavors suit the medication before the prescription is written.

Yes. Veterinary compounding is lawful and long established, and it is how animals get doses and dosage forms no manufactured product provides. It requires a valid prescription from a licensed veterinarian with a veterinarian-client-patient relationship, and FDA sets rules on which bulk substances may be compounded for animals.

No. Compounded veterinary preparations are not FDA-approved and have not undergone FDA review for safety, effectiveness, or quality, exactly as with compounded medications for people. They are prepared by a licensed pharmacy against a veterinarian's prescription for one animal, and your veterinarian decides whether one is appropriate.

It is FDA's guidance on compounding animal drugs from bulk drug substances. In practical terms it sets out when a preparation may be compounded from a bulk ingredient rather than from an approved drug, which is why availability of some veterinary compounds depends on federal rules rather than on the pharmacy. Ask your veterinarian, or call us about a specific medication.

Sometimes, and sometimes not. A compounded preparation is priced on its ingredients, strength, form, and quantity, so it can work out cheaper than splitting an expensive manufactured product, but it is not automatically the lower-cost option. Call (407) 610-9090 with the prescription details and we will quote it before we prepare anything.

Both are on the label: use it by the beyond-use date printed there, and store it as the label directs. Some flavored liquids need refrigerating and some do not, and it varies by formulation rather than by drug. If the label is unclear or has come off, call (407) 610-9090 rather than guessing.

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Questions about veterinary compounding?

(407) 610-9090
1210 S International Pkwy, Suite 166
Lake Mary, FL 32746
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Important Information

About Compounded Veterinary Medications: Compounded veterinary medications are prepared by our licensed pharmacy pursuant to a prescription from a licensed veterinarian. Compounded medications are NOT FDA-approved. They have not undergone FDA review for safety, effectiveness, or quality.

Prescription Required: All veterinary medications require a valid prescription from a licensed veterinarian who has established a veterinarian-client-patient relationship with you and your animal.

Veterinary Supervision: Use of compounded medications should be supervised by your veterinarian. Follow all dosing instructions and contact your vet if you have concerns about your pet's response to medication.