Where can I get cheap Advocate online for my cat without prescription?

Nowhere legally, it's a POM (prescription-only medication) hence the need for a prescription.

You could either source from a company that evades regulation (e.g. operating abroad) and run the risk of other dodgy practices (counterfeits, out of date products, etc.), or you could look to source an alternative non-POM medication that will do the job. Advantage, for example, is similar to Advocate, though doesn't cover lungworm.

Have you asked your vet what their prescription charge is? They may be able to prescribe several months at a time and still make the savings worthwhile. The RCVS does not state a maximum prescription charge for vets, but state it must be "reasonable" (i.e. not made so high it stops people getting prescriptions). If your local vet seem pricey, you could ask around other vets locally.

Sounds like your vet is like ours - the price to write a prescription (if you don't want to have them fill it) is exactly enough to make prescription plus online drug cost = cost of the drug from the vet. :mad:

Oh for the days when online prescriptions were free.


The idea was to help online businesses build up their customer base, but the way that vets are constantly increasing script charges it will soon be of no advantage to buy online and the businesses will be back to square one. (Our vet now charges a high fee for the first, compared with the post-freebie one, then slightly less for subsequent ones, for the same treatment).