This past Friday, I used the spot on OTC flea stuff on my 2 cats. Within an hour, both cats were acting very strange. Like a big stupid dope, I went out to dinner anyway. When I returned home my 26 pound cat was curled up around the toilet with eyes as big as saucers [...]

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I purchased the hartz advanced care flea drops this weekend b/c I hadn’t gotten a chance to go to the vet for the “real” drops. I figured if anything they just wouldn’t work very well, but would work until i could get them into the vet. I applied it to both of my cats. one [...]

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I used the Hartz flea and tick medication on my two cats this past Sat. and by 10:00 Sun. night one was drooling and having seizure like convulsions. His eyes were glazed over and he acted like he could not wake up. I rushed them both to the emergency vet. One is still not out [...]

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Recently I bathed my 3yr old Beagle with Hartz Medicated Shampoo because she had a little dandruff and some scratching issues. A little later in the day I was going about my business when all of the sudden she started going into a seizure. She fell over on the floor and all of her muscles [...]

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Our 10 month old healthy Shar-pei suddenly collapsed & became listless, we rushed her to the Emergency vet where she underwent a series of tests. She has since been diagnosed with Liver disease that the emergency vet & our vet state that the application of the flea & tick drops caused. She is at home [...]

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I want to thank all of you that answered my questions and for your support. Smokey was put to sleep on Saturday. He never recovered. He spent his last days in a cage, alone and scared not knowing what was happening to him or why. The Vet and his staff did all they could. I [...]

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Josh, I had told you about my cat, Smokey and how I had to have him put to sleep. I have found an attorney that is interested in this. I need to locate any victims in Tennessee that would be interested. If i could find enough people, he may take this case. I would appreciate [...]

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Our cat Little Eyes is the latest victim. I unknowingly purchased the “trusted” Hartz brand flea & tick drops. I applied them before leaving in the morning and when I got home that afternoon our cat was suffering. To be honest, I don’t even like the cat, but I love my daughter and watching a [...]

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I bought Hartz Advanced Care Plus flea and tick drops for my 3 cats. We had been successfully using Frontline previouly with no adverse effects. This time I was a little short on cash so I tried the Hartz instead. I read the lable carefully and bought the smaller-cats/kittens size for my one tiny older [...]

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I purchased Hartz flea and tick drops for my cat at the local target, I am ashamed that I didn’t take the warnings more seriously, although they could have put: Causes severe seizures and death in most cats! on it. but anyway, about 6 hours after i applied it, my cat Farley, started to have [...]

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Sender’s Name: Alex Zequeira Sender’s Email: [email protected] Message: My name is Alex Zequeira with WTVJ NBC 6 News in Miami, Florida. I am looking for someone who has video of his or her cat experiencing an adverse reaction to the HARTZ flea medication. We are doing a story about this product, and video of cats [...]

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Hartz Mountain Corporation Becomes Official Sponsor of AKC Veterinary Outreach Program [Thursday, June 17, 2004] The American Kennel Club (AKC) is proud to announce a new relationship with The Hartz Mountain Corporation to become the official sponsor of the AKC Veterinary Outreach Program. The AKC Veterinary Outreach Program unites the world of purebred dogs with [...]

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My cat is now hospitalized and may die. My story is similar to everyone elses. I did not know what Hartz products could do to him. He is now on an IV and if not better by tomarrow, they will run a tox screen on his liver. It has been 3 days and he can [...]

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I’ve always bathed my cat in baby shampoo (non-animal tested) twice a year. I had brought my two cats, Sabre and Zoe’ to a neighbors house while I was away. Ordinarily I leave them home with extra food, litter and water, but this time was the only time I had left them with a friend. [...]

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I have nine cats and had been using another flea and tick medication for them until my son bought a whole year’s supply of Hartz on e-bay. After I received the medication, I started to hear the horror stories about this product. Even my vet said that Hartz caused violent reactions in cats plus it [...]

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Japanese Company to Buy Hartz Mountain for $366 Million By Zachery Kouwe The Associated Press Published: Jun 18, 2004 NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) – Investment fund J.W. Childs Associates LP has agreed to sell Hartz Mountain Corp., which makes pet products, to Japanese trading firm Sumitomo Corp. for about 40 billion yen, or $366 million. [...]

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My mom sent me this story from the Houston Chronicle. Anyone out there know if adding brewer’s yeast to cats’ food really works in repelling fleas?

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I heard about how Hartz has lawsuits against them because of poor kitties dying, and I instantly felt both horror, and /guilt/, because either or both of my furbabies could’ve become statistics… I’ve used the Hartz Advanced Flea and Tick drops on my boys, and fortunately my story doesn’t have a sad ending. But it [...]

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AgainstHartz is selling t-shirts and bumper stickers.

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Well, I had put some of Fartz© drops on both of my kitties. One, who was barely old enough for her brand of the drops, immiediately freaked and scratched at the spot. I thought nothing of it since it’s her first encounter with flea medicine. Little did I know this was merely a concentrated insecticide. [...]

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My 8 year old daughter has numerous flea bites on her legs. She has been the only one out of 5 of us who has been bitten. Our 1 year old boxer had been able to get his Hartz flea collar off and one of us in the family found it and put it on [...]

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We went to the vet today for our 14 month old cat, Gaia. We gave her Hartz advantage yesterday and after about an hour noticed she was having muscle spasms, which was something the box said to watch out for. We washed the rest off (yes, we endured bathing a cat!) and kept an eye [...]

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Sender’s Name: Alex Zequeira Sender’s Email: [email protected] My name is Alex Zequeira, with NBC 6 in Miami, Florida. We are looking to do a story about the HARTZ flea and tick medication. We need to get in contact with someone in the South Florida area that has had a bad experience using “Advanced Care Flea [...]

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We used Hartz on our two cats. One was fine but the female, Blaze, got very sick. She was all jittery and skittish. I called the 1-800 number and they told me to bathe her which I did. We finally took her to the vet. She almost died. The vet told us he knew of [...]

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HartzVictims.org Sender’s Name: Christy Sender’s Email: ccsez Message: Josh- what you are doing is awesome-I just wish I would have found this site a little sooner, unfortunatly My 2 yr old Baby boy is sick and had 2 seiszures 6-04-04 because of the advanced Hartz flea drops, after rushing to the emergency vet and being [...]

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In my ignorance, I killed my sweet kitty, Fat Albert. I thought, if they sell it in supermarkets, it’s safe. I inherited two cats when I moved a few months ago. They took to me immediately, and I to them. I love animals. One lived, one did not. I put Hartz flea drops on them. [...]

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Last night I had to bring my 2.5 yr old cat to the emergency vet after he suffered adverse effects from Hartz flea and tick drops plus. A few hours after applying the drops he began to twitch, his pupils became dialated, and he was acting scared and uneasy…not normal for one of the most [...]

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I have an 8 month old Himalayan, and she had fleas bad. I am a middle class person with a family living paycheck to paycheck call it stupidity but I was in wal-mart and saw this flea drops for cats by hartz for alot cheaper then the good stuff so I used it. with in [...]

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I have 2 cats that have recently come down with fleas. I spoke to my Mom and she told me that the Hartz drops do not work and to go to the vet to get Advantage. After work, tired and wanting to just go home, I went to Albertsons to grocery shop. I noticed that [...]

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My apologies to those who have written in to me.  I recently changed jobs and haven’t had a lot of time in the past two weeks to keep up with correspondences.  I promise I will get back to you soon. Thanks, Josh

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