Murray Shore Pharmacy and Compounding
416-789-1800

Compounding · Veterinary

Veterinary compounding for patients who cannot be reasoned with.

Murray Shore prepares veterinary compounds in North York, Toronto, from your veterinarian’s prescription: medication in flavours and forms animals will actually accept. If the twice-daily pill battle has become the hardest part of your pet’s care, this service exists for you.

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Taste · Form · Strength

What we can change

Real examples

From problem to preparation

This is not only for when nothing else works. It is about forms and flavours your pet will actually accept, prepared from your veterinarian’s prescription.

  • The problem Your dog has learned to detect a pill inside anything.

    What we prepare The same medicine as a flavoured suspension, or a treat-style chewable that arrives looking like the reward.

  • The problem The veterinarian’s dose is a fraction of any manufactured strength.

    What we prepare A capsule scaled to the small patient, prepared at exactly that fraction.

  • The problem Nothing oral is getting past your cat.

    What we prepare Some veterinary prescriptions are written as a transdermal gel applied to the skin, commonly the inner ear. We show you the technique at pickup.

  • The problem The patient will not get in the car this week.

    What we prepare Free delivery across North York and Thornhill, with dosing and storage walked through either way.

Step by step

How it works with your veterinarian

  1. The prescription comes first. Every veterinary compound starts with a veterinarian’s order. Your clinic can send it to us, or you can bring it in; either way, nothing is prepared without it.
  2. We speak clinic-to-pharmacy. Questions about the formula, strength, or form go straight to your veterinarian’s office. You are never the go-between carrying half-remembered instructions across town.
  3. Pick up, or have it delivered. Collect the preparation in store, or use our free delivery across North York and Thornhill. We walk you through dosing and storage either way.
Start with a call: 416-789-1800

Built for the species, not adapted from ours

Animals are not small humans, and a veterinary compound is not a human preparation with a new label. Ingredients routine in products made for people can be unsuitable for animals; the sweetener xylitol, which the U.S. FDA warns is dangerous for dogs, is the textbook example, and it is exactly why our dog preparations are formulated from the ground up rather than adapted from human stock. Species, breed size, and the veterinarian’s dosing all shape the formula before we weigh the first ingredient.

This is regular, recognized pharmacy work: Canada’s federal compounding policy defines a patient to include an animal, and lists veterinarians among the practitioners whose prescriptions pharmacies compound for. Both references live in the sources note below.

A note for veterinary clinics

If your practice needs a compounding pharmacy for the prescriptions your dispensary cannot stock, call and ask for the pharmacist. We take formula details by phone or fax, confirm anything ambiguous before preparing, and tell you honestly when a request is outside our range. Your clients get counselling at pickup, and you get a pharmacy that returns calls.

Pet medication questions

Do I need a prescription from my veterinarian?

Yes, every time. Veterinary compounds are prepared only from a veterinarian’s prescription, and we confirm details with the clinic directly when anything needs clarifying. If you are not sure what your vet ordered, bring what you have and we will make the call.

Can you flavour my pet’s medication?

That is most of what veterinary compounding is. Tell us what your animal loves and what it refuses; chicken, beef, fish, and liver are the usual winners, and the flavour is built into the preparation rather than painted over it.

My dog spits out every pill. What are the options?

Ask your veterinarian about a different form: a flavoured liquid dosed by syringe, a treat-style chewable, or a capsule small enough to hide. With their prescription, we prepare the form, and you get your evenings back.

Can I just give my pet some of my own medication?

Please do not. What suits a human body can be wrong for an animal, and formulation details matter as much as the drug itself: the sweetener xylitol, found in many products made for people, is dangerous for dogs. Animal preparations should come from a veterinarian’s order, built for the species taking them.

Do you compound for cats, or for smaller animals like rabbits and birds?

With a veterinarian’s prescription, we prepare compounds for the patient it names, and small patients are exactly where compounding is at its best, because strengths can be scaled far below anything manufactured. Call us with the species and the prescription details and we will tell you plainly what we can do.

How do I give a transdermal preparation?

Exactly as the veterinarian directed, and we demonstrate at pickup: where to apply it, how much, and how to protect your own skin while doing it, usually with a finger cot or glove. If anyone in the household is pregnant or handling it daily, mention it and we will go over precautions.

Can pet medications be delivered?

Yes. Veterinary compounds ride along on the same free delivery we run across North York and Thornhill, which matters on the weeks when the patient will not get in the car.

Compounding for the humans of the household lives at our compounding overview.

Sources

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