Yeah, yeah - I know... boring title. But here's a scary warning we read earlier this afternoon:
Hartz flea and tick products are dangerous and have caused injury and the deaths of thousands of animals. Please do not make your pet a victim by using them.
For more information check out www.hartzvictims.org.
We applied a tube of Ultraguard Flea & Tick Drops to each of our muttz this afternoon, but quickly washed it all off after reading online reviews about the product.
This whole thing is kind of a gray area. After poring over pages and pages of sad stories, I definitely feel for the grieving/shocked/angry pet owners. And moreso for their pets. These products are obviously toxic to some animals. Yet the skeptical side of me suspects some folks didn't follow directions or may have applied incorrect dosages.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. But we love our two fuzzy monsters way too much to take a chance on a product like this. So we washed off the flea treatment and threw the other unopened package in the garbage.
Happily, both Norm and The Bert seem fine.
Although we're still keeping our eyeballs peeled for strange behaviour, lethargy, shakes, etc.
Update: There are also a lot of complaints about Hartz products on this Consumer Affairs website.
That's scarey, did you notice any problems with their products for cats?
Posted by: Don | October 16, 2011 at 06:22 AM
Mr P - If you have cats and use Hartz flea collars or flea drops, I would read the comments from the link in my post... MOST of the first few pages were about cats and they were all pretty serious. Not good.
Posted by: kelsi | October 16, 2011 at 08:26 AM