Day: February 16, 2011

BILLINGS – When Fluffy, your feline who just shredded a new curtain gets her next dose of Fluoxetine or kitty Prozac, you may have to give her a pill, rather than rubbing a gel in her ear. That will be the outcome if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration formalizes a policy prohibiting pharmacists from mixing or compounding pet medications from pure chemicals. Instead, they would have to buy commercially available drugs and grind up the pills. “In the eyes of the FDA, the only thing you can use on Fluffy is the capsule manufactured and sold