GB2317560A - Anti-parasite medication for pets - Google Patents

Abstract

A mixture of prepared pet food to which one or more pharmaceuticals, medicines or antibiotics have been added in the course of manufacture, the mixture intended to feed and simultaneously to dose the animal in order to eliminate and/or prevent infestation or reinfestation with any or all kinds of worm or other intestinal or other parasite, internal or external, in domestic and other cats and dogs and other animals, including birds, kept as pets, such medicated food intended for domestic use away from veterinary control or supervision; presentation for sale of such medicated pet food in measured unitary doses; or as loose or unportioned feed intended subsequently to be weighed or otherwise portioned to achieve the desired medicinal dose.

Description

2317560 113 ANTi-PARASITE MEDICATiON FOR PETS This invention relates to

the medication of domestic cats and dogs and other pets for the cure and prophylaxis of parasites.

There is a widely recognised need to dose domestic cats and dogs and perhaps other pets as well regularly with anti-parasite medicines. It is held by many doctors that infection by parasites harboured by pets gives rise to a constant undercurrent of human malaise; the vegetative forms of these parasites can and do find permanent lodging in the organs of the body where they may produce effects from muscular pain to epilepsy; young children particularly are at risk from an intestinal parasite of dogs, sometimes with tragic results. Vets recommend dosing pets two to four times a year with worming medicines; other medicines need to be administered more frequently - up to once a month. Having the right medicine in the right dose at the right time is a recurrent hurdle, as if running a household weren't already complicated enough; the business of getting the pill into the pet, or of mixing crushed pill or powder with pet food - these factors have a combined nuisance value high enough to ensure that a large proportion of pet owners never get round to dosing their pets, however advisable.

The present invention brings together pet food and anti-parasite medicines to give pet owners a medication in an easily administered and readily available form ideally displayed on the same supermarket shelves as stock everyday pet foods. The convenient, easily remembered regular dosing of pets this would encourage (on the first of each month, say) would represent a palpable contribution to public hygiene.

213 CLAIMS

1 A mixture of prepared pet food to which one or more pharmaceuticals, medicines or antibiotics have been added in the course of manufacture, the mixture intended to feed and simultaneously to dose the animal in order to eliminate andlor prevent infestation or reinfestation with any or all kinds of worm or other intestinal or other parasite, internal or external, in domestic and other cats and dogs and other animals, including birds, kept as pets; such medicated food intended for domestic use away from veterinary control or supervision. 2 Presentation for sale of such medicated pet food as in Claim 1 in measured unitary doses - for example, one unit for a cat, four for a large dog - units represented, for example, by tins or vacuum packs. 3 Presentation of such medicated pet food as in Claims 1 and 2 as a wet feed. 4 Presentation of such medicated pet food as in Claims 1 and 2 as a moist feed - less than wet but not dry. 5 Presentation of such medicated pet food as in Claims 1 and 2 as a dry feed. 6 Presentation for sale for domestic use of such medicated wet, moist, or dry pet food as loose or unportioned feed intended subsequently to be weighed or otherwise portioned to achieve the desired medicinal dose.