Care Guides
Condition and care guides for dogs, cats, and exotic pets — researched and reviewed by our 47 DVMs and 19 PharmDs before a single word goes live. No recycled blog content, no anonymous authors.
Editorial standards
A care guide on My Pet Medicine is not a blog post. Each one is drafted by a credentialed author on our clinical team — a DVM, a PharmD, or a board-certified veterinary pharmacist — then peer-reviewed by a second clinician and tagged with the sources, FDA labels, and current AAHA or ISFM guidelines it draws from.
Every guide carries a visible byline, a date of last clinical review, and the date it is next due for re-review. If a label change, a black-box warning, or a new consensus statement alters the standard of care, the guide is pulled into revision before the next editorial cycle closes. Our internal standard is a full library re-review every fourteen months; condition hubs on rapidly evolving topics — like feline diabetes or canine osteoarthritis — are reviewed every six.
Guides are written to help you have a better conversation with your own veterinarian, not to replace one. They do not diagnose, do not dose for your specific animal, and they always link back to a licensed clinician on staff if your pet’s situation needs a human eye. If a guide recommends a product sold on our pharmacy, that recommendation is reviewed against the same formulary our 47 DVMs use when reviewing the 71,000 prescriptions we fulfill every month.
— The My Pet Medicine Clinical Editorial Board, Austin, TX
Browse by condition family
Four hubs cover the conditions we see most often across our 612,000 active accounts. Each hub links to condition-specific guides, dosing references, and the refill SKUs our auto-ship program can keep on your doorstep.
Most-read hub
Diabetes, hypothyroidism, CKD, osteoarthritis, heart disease, and seizure disorders — the long arc of care for the dog or cat living with a managed condition.
Hub 02
Environmental allergies, food sensitivities, flea/tick preventives, hot spots, and the EPA-approved products our pharmacists dispense most.
Open hub ›Hub 03
Separation anxiety, noise phobias, thunderstorm fear, and the behavioral pharmacology our 19 PharmDs help pet parents navigate.
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Hub 04 · Pharmacy-led
Rabbits, reptiles, small mammals — plus canine and feline dental care and our 680 compounded formulations: transdermal gels, custom-flavored liquids, and small-breed doses big-box pharmacies won’t make.
Care Guides
Long-form, clinician-authored explainers for the conditions we see most often at the refill counter — written to help you decide what to buy, when to escalate, and how to dose with confidence.
How to read the difference between "slowing down" and true joint pain, what the labels on carprofen and meloxicam actually mean, and when a compounded transdermal makes sense for a dog that won't swallow pills.
Why glargine outperforms NPH in most newly diagnosed cats, how to store and handle a vial without losing potency, and what a cold-chain shipment actually does for your next refill.
When to reach for daily oral therapy, when a single monoclonal antibody injection is the cleaner choice, and which fatty-acid ratios in a supplement have the strongest clinical signal behind them.
The Library
Every guide on this site is researched, written, and peer-reviewed by a clinician who actually dispenses these medicines. Here's what that looks like at scale.
Across 6 species and 48 condition hubs, indexed for long-tail search.
DVMs, PharmDs, and board-certified veterinary pharmacists on the byline roster.
Draft → peer review → pharmacist fact-check → publish, per internal editorial log.
Every chronic-care guide carries a "Last reviewed" date and a named reviewer.
Editorial Standards
Short answers to the question our editors get most often. If you're evaluating whether to trust a guide with a refill decision, start here.
Every guide is written by one of our staff veterinarians or pharmacists — the same clinicians who review prescriptions on the dispensing side. We do not commission outside freelancers and we do not run AI-generated first drafts through a human editor and call it authored. Each guide lists a primary author and a peer reviewer by name and credential on the byline, with a "Last reviewed" date.
A draft passes through three checkpoints: a peer review by a second DVM or PharmD who did not write it, a pharmacy fact-check against the current FDA label and any boxed warnings, and an E-E-A-T audit by our medical director that confirms references, conflicts of interest, and any "off-label" framing. Nothing publishes until all three are signed off.
We re-review every chronic-care guide at least once every 12 months, or immediately when any of the following happens: a new FDA label change, a major society guideline update (AAHA, ACVIM, ISFM), or a meaningful new product launch in the category. The "Last reviewed" date on every guide reflects the most recent full editorial pass, not a typo fix.
No. Our guides are educational — they summarize what the evidence and labels say, and they explain how a medicine works, what to monitor, and which side effects warrant a call to your vet. We do not diagnose conditions, prescribe drugs, or replace a clinical exam. Every guide links to a vet-consult disclaimer and to the product page, where a licensed DVM reviews your pet's record before any prescription is authorized.
