Hi All, protect your animal companions from making them sick or
killing them...with best of intentions! For decades Hartz
flea collars have been making cats and dogs sick. Now they expanded to
drops and there may be more items like these. Please take your time
to read the links at the end, plus these 2 articles for SAFE FLEA/TICK removal
methods:
http://www.askcarla.com/answers.asp?QuestionandanswerID=232
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=43
Many
medicines can be worse than the illnesses. Why not use the old fashioned
way of combing the animal companion with a fine comb over a large paper -
DAILY? Not only is this 100% safe, but it is a wonderful chance for
both of you to slow down and enjoy a slow-down, intimate moment...
:o) Adela
Subject: Terrible experience...Please read
and spread the word!!!
Last night at midnight a friend came to the house and told
me our mutual friend was laying in his driveway
holding his dog and crying. He was saying to his dog how sorry he was, that he
only wanted to help him, please don't die.
I was told Andy used Hartz
advanced flea and tick drops on Scruffy. I nearly fainted.
Andy is poor, has no phone, limited use of a car. This poor
guy has no family, they are all deceased, and his family is his 4 dogs. Scruffy
is a 100 pound mixed breed dog with a history of epilepsy. Scruffy was having
flea problems so Andy, not having much money, bought the Hartz
product from K-Mart. He applied the product early yesterday morning. By 6pm
Scruffy was lethargic, staggering, disoriented. By 8pm Scruffy started seizing.
With no phone,living in a
rural area, all Andy could think to do was wash Scruffy with lots of water.
Since Scruffy was seizing, Andy gave him a dose of pheno
barbital, Scruffy's seizure medicine. The seizures
slowed down. Our mutual friend just happened to be close to Andy's around 11pm
and decided to check on him and see if he needed anything. That is when he
found Andy and Scruffy in the drive. When he saw the condition Andy was in, and
the problems Scruffy was having, he decided to come to my house, less than 5
miles away from Andy's house, and see if I had any info on this
product.
I told him to go back and use his cell and page the vet to
meet them at the clinic immediately. I told him this is a potentially deadly
product that needs to be removed from the market. Keep the package and get to
the vets right away. Don't worry about the bill...I told him to tell Andy that I would deal with Hartz
later.
This morning early I went to Andy's and Scruffy was weak,
dazed, slightly shocky and still needing to get to
the vet. I was shocked he wasn't at the vets already. The vet did not answer
the late night page. Our mutual friend had left Andy the cell phone. Andy had
called the vet and a ride. He informed me that his ride would be there any
minute. I wrote down the information from the package, told him to call me if
his ride didn't show. Scruffy is at the vets now but is still not out of the
woods....please say a gentle prayer for Scruffy....and
Andy.
I called Hartz. I told them what
happened to Scruffy. They took the information and gave me a case number for
Andy. He told me that Hartz would pay the vet bill
and refund his money for the product if we provided the information and a vet
report. I asked him if he thought that would make up for a man possibly losing
his best friend. No answer. Then I asked them if Hartz
was making so much money on this product that they continued to market it,
knowing it's deadly potential....IS THE PROFIT WORTH
THE COSTS OF PAYING THE CLAIMS? No answer. I told him that I felt Hartz was marketing this poison to a lower income group of
people and that their company was banking on consumer ignorance. No answer. I
asked him if paying the claims was cheaper than pulling the product...again..no answer. I asked this rep
what he personally felt about this product. He told me that he only took the
complaints, he had no answers. I asked him if he liked working for a company
that profited on ! the death
of companion animals. No answer. So I told him that if I worked for any company
that murdered animals that I would quit that employ and make a lot of noise
about it. I told him his personal standards must be very low or completely
lacking. Still no answer. I want answers. I am sure
there are many victims of this product that want answers. He ended our
conversation asserting that Hartz flea and tick drops
are safe and he THANKED ME FOR USING HARTZ PRODUCTS!!!!!!!! I
hung up before I said something very insulting....then I cried for all the
animals that have died so Hartz could make money.
PLEASE make it a point to tell everyone you know to boycott
these products. Educate everyone about the potential hazards of these products.
And please look in the links below and sign the petition against Hartz...thanks....Julia
At this site you can download and print flyers and stickers
to warn people about these products. You can print mailing labels too so you
can put the message on every piece of mail you send. I printed mine today.
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