Carprofen (Generic) Flavored Tablets for Dogs

Calvin loves to watch people go by our house. He had a prime seat for this when I had Covid, and was often sleeping on the sofa, he sat at my feet and could easily see people walking by. He got the waggle giggle ball for Christmas and from the first time getting it out of the wrapping, it has become a favorite toy. He is a Bassett/ Lab/ Border Collie mix and has the big Bassett paws, which are perfect for batting the ball around soccer style.

The product itself is fine and reasonably priced. My issue with this is the fact that the past 2 times I've tried to re-fill my dog's prescription, the product is out of stock. This is extremely frustrating when you have a dog that needs the medication. It's not like you can purchase the product elsewhere until you have it back in stock.

The medicine itself works just fine. However, if you need a smaller dose and have to cut it in halves or in fourths you may want to try another brand? Because, this particular pill crumbles apart like a piece of chalk when you try to cut it. And, since they didn’t have a small enough dose I had no choice but to order this medication and try to cut it down into four pieces. Needless to say didn’t work out so well. But, as I mentioned...the medication itself works great.

Our vet prescribed 1 to 1.5 tablets daily of the 100 mg carprofen. This dosing makes it necessary to use a pill cutter. In the most recent refill order, the tablets are by a different manufacturer -Dechra. When splitting the pills they crumble into small pieces and dust making any effort at correct dosing almost impossible. The tablets are scored so cutting them with a pill cutter is, typically, no issue. I understand these are flavored and meant to be chewable but given the dosing, I should have ordered the caplets. Posting this review so others don’t make the same mistake. The pills are: orange, round, F100;MG;BP-CAR.

Carprofen has given my basset the ease of getting on the bed without my assistance. Her movements are obviously less difficult. As for the "flavored" tablets; she spit it out. A thin slice of sandwich meat solved that! Chewy surprised me in getting the prescription (I mailed) filled SO quickly. It was just a matter of days, not even a week.

These pills are very small and extremely difficult to break in half. It would be helpful to see a picture of the tablets before purchasing. They disintegrate as you cut in half. I would not recommend if you need to only give half at a time.

My dog is on a 1/2 tablet morning and night. I usually buy none flavored and find them easy to cut; but these, although they say can be split, are thick and I find it hard. But since they are so important to me dog, I will put up with the "hardness".

I am very happy with getting my dog's prescription thru Chewy. This is the first time I utilized this pharmacy and it was very easy to do, my prescription was filled quickly, and the price was less than 20% of what I was paying through my vet.

The pills are great but the hoops that Chewy makes you jump through to get it is ridiculous. Once it’s finalized they screw the dosing up and leave you without enough pills ensuring your vet needs to place yet another call to Chewy

So for those of you who are having problems cutting the pills, don't cut them. If you take a pill and put it on a flat surface, use your thumbs and push down on both sides of the score mark. Breaks in half super easy. Your thumbs might get a little sore, but no crumbling. =D