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When the animals at Audubon Zoo need special medicine, Carr Drugs helps out. The business is the zoo's compounding pharmacy, which means it can custom-make medicine for its patients, with and without tails.
Co-owner Mitch Boyter recalls a 12-foot alligator with an eye infection that needed eye drops three times a day. Because of the frequency, the handlers couldn't sedate the gator. It presented zookeepers and pharmacists with a challenge: How to administer the medicine?
"You put the medicine in a water gun and you can shoot him from 10-feet away," Boyter said.
In another instance, the pharmacists had to calculate dosages for sick monkeys that differed in age. They couldn't use their shared food source, so they used...