This can be a real benefit to our cats, but there are still some precautions to heed.

By Roxanne Willems Snopek

All pharmacists are trained in compounding, yet few of them do it regularly or for the veterinary market.

Some cats are model patients. They sit calmly for nail trims, they let you look inside their mouths, brush their teeth, purring all the while. Other cats — perhaps the majority — are not so accommodating. You just think about trimming their nails and they disappear. Getting a pill into them requires protective gear and a strong sense of self-esteem because they will utter curses at you for weeks afterwards.

Drew Weigner, DVM, ABVP, board-certified feline specialist and founder of The Cat Doctor in Atlanta, Georgia, knows all about pill-resistance. “There are a lot of different ways of getting medications into cats,” he says. He’s found that many cats will…

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