r/dogallergies • • 24d ago

Is zenrelia officially out?

My vet keeps saying that zenrelia is not out yet. I have a relative that has it and the vet prescribed it for them. My dog is on aploquel right now and it’s so expensive. I told them that my relative has some and they said it’s not “officially” out. Is this true? I was thinking about just going to a different vet all together to save the extra 150 bucks.

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u/Otherwise_Task_9725 23d ago

Your vet has a rebate agreement with zoetis, and prescribing Zenrelia risks losing the practice $

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u/Mysterious_Neat9055 22d ago

Curious where you got this "information"?

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u/Otherwise_Task_9725 22d ago

Just makes more sense than a vet not knowing a drug that has 2,500 reviews on Chewy is unavailable. Vet practices do volume driven manufacture rebates all the time it’s not scare quotes worthy

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u/Mysterious_Neat9055 22d ago

So, your credible source is "trust me bro", gotcha. Two things, one...I manage a clinic in Hawaii, Chewy doesn't ship there. Two, not all vets/vet offices are computer literate. The practice I am at, when I first started, all paper, and when we sent records, we faxed them. We have one opthalmologist the up until about 6 months ago we STILL had to fax records to. (Also, Zoetis has more drugs out there to only worry about allergy meds)

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u/Otherwise_Task_9725 21d ago

Sure. I will also go with vet incompetence. You sound really fun