The European branch of Virbac distributes it in an agreement with Peptech. Peptech makes it. It may be that Virbac simply ordered enough earlier, but Peptech did not expect the number of U.S. orders coming in. That may be a way to market it here in the U.S. since Virbac has been here for something like 2 decades (located in Fort Worth). See: <http://www.virbac.es/p-virbacespubes/pdf/suprelorin/estudios_clinicos/Suprelorinannouncement2008.pdf> <http://www.peptech.com/HTML/News_Media/nm_press_release_12sep07.html> As has been said, be very careful to NOT get the wrong product. The NON-implant horse version won't last long in the body so it will worsen things for the same reason that using 24 hour Lupron instead of a Lupron DEPOTdoes. See: http://www.miamiferret.org/24hr_lupron.htm Lupron and Suprelorlin (deslorelin IMPLANT) are in the same family of drugs. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html [Posted in FML 6505]
