We have used the pet meter for years, even wore one out and on our second one............ Ordered new strips last month. Ha, you have to have a prescription for them since the first of the year. You don't for humans but you do for animals - that don't make sense, not that we had a problem, they themselves called our vet for it, but it was just another annoying thing the government put restrictions on. Millie and her Danes at the Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue www.txferretrescue.org [Posted in FML 7477]