What Food(s) Does Your Vet Office Sell?
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I want to know where you all find vets that sell good foods.
The vet I work for sells some Purina veterinary diets, Hills prescription diets, and Science Diet. I WILL NOT use ANY Hills product and by vet/boss knows this. We feed boarding dogs Purina EN and I will not board my dogs at the clinic, ever, because I don't trust people there not to feed them that crap. I don't trust most of my coworkers when it comes to boarding, actually, and that's sad.
There is one vet clinic here that has a small pet store attached to it, and they sell TOTW, diamond naturals, Pure Vita, Chicken Soup, and several other brands. That is where I go to buy TOTW when I can't make it to my trainer's place. They're cheaper than TSC, but a couple dollars more than my trainer.
The vet I work for sells some Purina veterinary diets, Hills prescription diets, and Science Diet. I WILL NOT use ANY Hills product and by vet/boss knows this. We feed boarding dogs Purina EN and I will not board my dogs at the clinic, ever, because I don't trust people there not to feed them that crap. I don't trust most of my coworkers when it comes to boarding, actually, and that's sad.
There is one vet clinic here that has a small pet store attached to it, and they sell TOTW, diamond naturals, Pure Vita, Chicken Soup, and several other brands. That is where I go to buy TOTW when I can't make it to my trainer's place. They're cheaper than TSC, but a couple dollars more than my trainer.
There is another thread similar to this (on a different forum) and after reading some of the responses I am so thankful I found my vet. He is awesome and sells awesome food... I feel really lucky to have found him (even if I do have to drive quite a bit to see him).
This is my vets website... He used to practice in China! lol
Earth Vets / Earth Pets - Veterinary Medicine & Acupuncture / Natural Pet Market - Gainesville, FL
This is my vets website... He used to practice in China! lol
Earth Vets / Earth Pets - Veterinary Medicine & Acupuncture / Natural Pet Market - Gainesville, FL
Medical vet and SD prescription. The vet offered to send some canned food home with Dekka last week. I said no its ok 
Boarding Dekka out would be interesting. She can eat small amounts of anything, but a meal sized portion of things containing grains or too much carbs causes her to vomit and re eat repeatedly. She actually vomits-re eats with ANY kibble but with grain free high quality she might only do that once every few feedings and there is only one re eat cycle.
I forget what I gave her once.. maybe Iams.. and she was a self perpetuating food making/consuming machine. I finally took her away from it and cleaned it up.
I am sure that would freak people out. That would teach them for giving her crap!
Boarding Dekka out would be interesting. She can eat small amounts of anything, but a meal sized portion of things containing grains or too much carbs causes her to vomit and re eat repeatedly. She actually vomits-re eats with ANY kibble but with grain free high quality she might only do that once every few feedings and there is only one re eat cycle.
I forget what I gave her once.. maybe Iams.. and she was a self perpetuating food making/consuming machine. I finally took her away from it and cleaned it up.
I am sure that would freak people out. That would teach them for giving her crap!
Holistic vets I would assume.
I know a vet clinic in the area that sells the typical prescription diets, but then they also sell Innova. Not sure why lol.
Prescription diets work though, so I'm not going to fault a clinic that sells SD for example... I don't like feeding my cat a crappy prescription diet, but it is working for him so therefore I'm too afraid to try something else. So I'd actually be really upset if our vet did not sell SD, because then I'd have to go to a different clinic just for food. Blech.
Where I work we feed Purina EN to boarders if the owners don't supply us with food. We're good about not screwing that up, but it is rare that people don't bring food, so we're not in the habit of dishing out hospital food.
If you're a surgery patient though, you get canned i/d. Always.
I know a vet clinic in the area that sells the typical prescription diets, but then they also sell Innova. Not sure why lol.
Prescription diets work though, so I'm not going to fault a clinic that sells SD for example... I don't like feeding my cat a crappy prescription diet, but it is working for him so therefore I'm too afraid to try something else. So I'd actually be really upset if our vet did not sell SD, because then I'd have to go to a different clinic just for food. Blech.
Where I work we feed Purina EN to boarders if the owners don't supply us with food. We're good about not screwing that up, but it is rare that people don't bring food, so we're not in the habit of dishing out hospital food.
If you're a surgery patient though, you get canned i/d. Always.
Prescription diets don't always work. There are a very small number of things I would feed a prescription diet for, otherwise I'd rather home-cook something that meets the animal's needs. I would use a diet to dissolve bladder stones to avoid surgery. But I would not feed a Hills food, I would go out of my way to find another brand, even if it meant having to go to another clinic.
We tell our boarders to bring food, but they rarely do. Honestly I think it's common sense to bring your dog's own food, but apparently a lot of people think it's more trouble than it's worth. But even when people do bring their own food, if the dog doesn't want to eat it we give them canned food of some sort or another. We used to use a lot of canned i/d but it seems like it's been causing a lot of diarrhea since they reformulated it, so we've been using canned w/d (which I think is even worse than i/d and I refuse to use it for my dogs...my vet tried to get me to put Logan on it at one point for occasional loose stool...uh, no thanks. I don't want to pick up mountains of poop 8 times a day.)
We had someone board their dog and they brought in Orijen since that's what they fed. And my coworkers piled heaps of i/d on top of it :wall: I just soaked the kibble in water if she didn't eat, and it did the trick. I have one coworker that if you soak kibble in water, she'll go behind you a few minutes later and say "Oh you poor thing, you spilled your water in your food bowl!" *takes out soaked food and replaces with crappy canned food* :wall: :wall:
Science Diet. End story.
They've never pushed it on me, though, especially when they ask what I am feeding my pets (Evo/Innova). They've been impressed by that.
Also, when Morgan's been sick, they've just given him free cans of their SD turkey/rice wet food. I know it's still not the greatest, but hey, free canned food is free!
They've never pushed it on me, though, especially when they ask what I am feeding my pets (Evo/Innova). They've been impressed by that.
Also, when Morgan's been sick, they've just given him free cans of their SD turkey/rice wet food. I know it's still not the greatest, but hey, free canned food is free!
Mine heavily pushes Royal Canin. There are Royal Canin posters all over the office, and two walls are absolutely filled with the different varieties. Thankfully there's an a small store in town that has ~5 refrigerators filled with raw food, and every premium dry / canned food you can think of.
Vets must get some sort of kickback for selling Royal Canin or Science Diet.
Vets must get some sort of kickback for selling Royal Canin or Science Diet.
My previous vet really PUSHED me into feeding Hill's and that is what my dogs ate (sometimes I fed Eukanuba as well though). They stocked Royal Canin, Vets Choice, Hill's (Science Plan, and all prescription diets like j/d), Eukanuba.
My new vet stocks Ultra Dog and Vets Choice. Doesn't judge you for feeding your dog whatever you want and does not push ANY food onto your dog. Leo and Bella were on CRAP food about a month or two back (first four ingredients were ground maize, beef and lamb meat and bone meal, wheat bran, rice), and I went to the vet for something minor and the vet tech just asked out of interest what my dogs ate and I told her that they ate the above mentioned crap and the reaction I got was "Really? That isn't the best food but I cannot believe the condition your dogs are in". What she meant was the soft coats and not over weight, and Bella well muscled. The vet didn't even comment about it.
Bella went to the vet last week again and I saw a different vet, and he asked what Bella ate, and at the time she was eating about a handful of kibbles and the rest of her food was raw, and he thought it was weird but he didn't really comment on it.
I really love my new vet, but it is 1 hours drive away from my home.
My new vet stocks Ultra Dog and Vets Choice. Doesn't judge you for feeding your dog whatever you want and does not push ANY food onto your dog. Leo and Bella were on CRAP food about a month or two back (first four ingredients were ground maize, beef and lamb meat and bone meal, wheat bran, rice), and I went to the vet for something minor and the vet tech just asked out of interest what my dogs ate and I told her that they ate the above mentioned crap and the reaction I got was "Really? That isn't the best food but I cannot believe the condition your dogs are in". What she meant was the soft coats and not over weight, and Bella well muscled. The vet didn't even comment about it.
Bella went to the vet last week again and I saw a different vet, and he asked what Bella ate, and at the time she was eating about a handful of kibbles and the rest of her food was raw, and he thought it was weird but he didn't really comment on it.
I really love my new vet, but it is 1 hours drive away from my home.
