Why Your Support Matters in Our Pharmacy Choices

 

I want to share something with you honestly and directly, not as a business owner, but as your veterinarian and as someone who has cared for pets in this community for many years.

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In today’s world, it’s incredibly easy to buy medications and preventatives from large corporate pharmacies. I understand the appeal — quick checkout, fast delivery, and the feeling that you can compare prices with a click. But what many people don’t realize is how much this shift has impacted small, individually owned veterinary hospitals like ours.

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For decades, the small profit from prescriptions helped us keep the cost of other important services affordable — exams, diagnostics, urgent care visits, and everything we do to keep your pet healthy. But with most of that revenue now going to out-of-state corporations, clinics like ours are being forced to choose between raising prices or absorbing losses we simply can’t sustain.

all veterinarians want to avoid raising our costs on the care you depend on. I want to stay independent. I want to keep providing personalized, local veterinary medicine — the kind where you know your doctor and your doctor knows your pet.

But the truth is:
Small businesses can’t survive if everything shifts to big corporations.

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When you order from our online pharmacy — or when you purchase medications directly in-house — you’re not just buying a product. You are:

• Supporting a locally owned veterinary hospital

• Keeping your dollars in Oklahoma City

• Helping us maintain fair pricing on services

• Allowing us to invest in better equipment and better medicine

• Protecting the future of individualized veterinary care

• Strengthening a business that stands beside you when your pet needs us most​

 

And I want you to know something else:
I do mistrust some of the large, profit-driven pharmacies. Not because they’re convenient, but because I’ve seen medications shipped warm, stored improperly, counterfeited, or generically substituted without medical oversight. And, you lose your manufacturers guarantee on almost all your pet's preventatives. When your pet’s medication goes through us, it is checked by someone who knows your pet, your history, and your medical needs — not by a national warehouse.

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If you can support us by purchasing through our hospital or through our online pharmacy, it genuinely helps keep us here for you. It keeps small businesses alive in a world where more and more veterinary practices are being bought out by corporations. And it allows us to continue serving this community the way we always have — personally, compassionately, and independently.

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Thank you for choosing to support a local clinic that puts your pet first. It matters more than you know.

Visit our online pharmacy by clicking the picture above of my beloved Lucy!

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— Dr. Rick McNeal