A few months ago, I overheard assistants at my vet’s office talking about Hartz flea shampoo, and heavily warning against using it on either dogs or cats. My cat is a white male Persian and just recently went through several painful and expensive surgeries, for a small urethra. After all of this, he got fleas. [...]
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My cat of fifteen years old, beautiful hair and healthy died a couple months after putting a hartz flea collar on it, and it had a horrible reaction and lost hair. I took that off and treated it with the advanced spot. She tore her hair out till she was bald and got real skinny [...]
After purchasing Hartz Advanced Flea & Tick Drops and applied it to my 5 year old cat, I wondered what the difference in ingredients was to medications such as Frontline. I went on the web and found the difference to be “phenothrin” which is an insecticide in many powerful insect killers. Then I went to [...]
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I recievead a response from Hartz today regarding my cat Jewel who I had given the HArtz One Spot Flea and Tick treatment. I have already sent them the cats medical history and the results of tests that were done when he went to the vet on the 18th of August, but yet they need [...]
My mother has a beautiful male Russian Blue, named Miskie. He had been acting funny for a few monthe, and they thought he may have had ear mites. He would walk funny, stumble and when he arched his back he would fall over Mom had been treating him daily with drops, and nothing was helping. [...]
August 18th, 2005 Hartz Canada Inc. St. Thomas, Ontario N5P 3W7 To Whom It May Concern: I am writing in regards to your product Advanced Care” Control One Spot. I purchased this treatment from our local Zellers store on the 23rd of July and gave it to my two cats which are 5 years of [...]
THIS IS ABOUT MY CAT DUFFY, HE IS A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AND A HALF OLD. WE USED HARTZ 2 IN 1 FLEA SPRAY ON HIM ON SATURDAY LATE MORNING. JUST A COUPLE HOURS LATER HE BEGAN TO ACT FUNNY. HE WAS SHAKING, AND WOBBLY. WHEN HE WAS SITTING ON SOMETHING HE WOULD FALL [...]
On last monday we administered a dose of the flea and tick medicine on the back of my little dog’s neck, she is an 18 month old mix and just a little thing. The next day she began to act oddly, crying a lot and unable to settle herself. We took her to the vet [...]
I picked Hartz flea and tick back over the summer, to try over the winter when I didn’t think I really needed to use Advantage. I applied it to our 2 cats, SLY and TROUBLE yesturday. Within 4 hours SLY started having a seizure, we took her to the Emergence Hospital Vet and as we [...]
My favorite cat, Gandolf, recently was given Hartz flea medication and was harmed with toxisity. And after waiting 5 mins on the telephone to speak with an actual person we took him to the vet. When we took him in he was shaking severely, his eyes were huge, and could barely walk. I was so [...]
i am writing in reference to hartz flea drops. i put them on my kitten and within the hour my poor kitty was having numerous seizures and tremors. i had no idea that the product i trusted to use on him would poison him. i have been awake with him for 36 hours now, and [...]
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I have 2 cats and a dog that were affected by Hartz products. I read other victims’ stories every week, and it makes me sad to know people out there are still using Hartz. Whenever I am in PetSmart, PetCo, WalMart or any other place that has the poison on their shelves, I watch for [...]
Hello everyone, In researching this problem I found another site… http://www.geocities.com/againsthartz/index1.html Everyone on my email list was sent my story and this site as well as the geocities one and asked to forward it to all in their address books. I also contacted the store where I purchased this product, sent them the web sites [...]
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after putting on a hartz flea collar on my dog of 4-1/2 years she became very disoriented – muscle spasms – uncontrolable shaking and was very sick and in pain – i thought she was having a seziure after taken her to my vet – he instantly knew what was wrong with her – and [...]
i had 2 small dogs, my older one was a male jack russell/chihuahua mix. he was 12 years old. we had used the flea and tick killer from the vet, but had run out. i purchased the hartz brand at walmart and applied it to both dogs. both dogs weighed about 10 pounds, so i [...]
my little chihuahua Brewzer has been too the vet for the last 3 days. my fiance and i had used the hartz 2 in 1 flea and tick spray on our 2 dogs. our other dog is a pit bull named Justice. niether one had a problem with it until last sunday. brewzer was sprayed [...]
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One Sunday last month we decided to treat all of our animals for fleas. We do this fairly regularly. Except this time we bought it at the store. About an hour after using the drops, one of the cats started having a seizure. We had NO idea what was happening. Unfortunatly, after the first seizure [...]
Yesterday we went and picked up the most adorable little kitten. When we brought him home, we thought he needed a bath. He’s white and looked a little dingy. While brushing him and trying to rinse him we discovered that he was covered in blood. Fleas were feeding off of him and each other. I [...]
My fiance and I have five cats and recently discovered that our feline friends had a few “friends” of their own. Previously, I’ve purchased Frontline from my vet and have been very pleased with the results. While my pets have been lethargic for a day or so after treatment, the medicine works like a charm, [...]
I thought I was doing a good thing by giviing my 8 year old daughters kitten a flea spray. I had already shown my little girl how to bathe the little fuzz ball. So when I thought I would show her how to spray for fleas, everything would be alright. The kitten always acted funny [...]
I used Hartz 2in1 Flea Spray on my cat 1-1/2 days ago and now my cat is at the Vet’s in shock and INTERNALLY bleeding from a severe reaction to it. I have never heard any of these stories prior to this. From what I have now read these products should at least have warnings [...]
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Sadly, we lost our precious kitten this evening, due to having come in contact with Hartz 2-1 dog flea and tick spray…having went the cheap way and buying the three dogs in the house Hartz, flea and ticks spray, our little 5 month old kitten, got near the dogs and their bedding which had been [...]
Monday night around 8:00pm, I put Hartz Advanced Care 4 in 1 Flea & Tick Drops Plus+ on all 5 of my cats. I didn’t feel good about purchasing Hartz products, but my current financial situation doesn’t allow me to buy the more expensive products…especially for 5 cats!! So needless to say I bought the [...]
I was browsing journals when one title stuck out about HARTZ. I read the entry and was mortified. I called my mom to let her know not to use these products ever again. Then, thats when we got talking about our dog Jake we used to have. He was only a year old I had [...]
We put Hartz products on our cat yesterday 10-11-05. we had to take her to the vet this morning because she had tremors and was very sick. The vet informed us that the Hartz products was what was causing her to be sick. She will have to stay in the hospital for two days because [...]
Someone asked to hear from anyone who’s pets didn’t get sick so, here goes… Last year my mom had breast cancer and I lost my job. I was at her house on and off from Spring to Fall. Naturally, I brought my tuxedo cat Speedbump who had just turned one. While there, I found another [...]
i used the flea spray once on my cat, she had never had fleas and i was naive and decided to go OTC anyway my mom used it too for her dog on the same day, two diff ones of course, one for cat one for dog, *she got them bc i moved in with [...]
On Friday afternoon I put Hartz 3 in 1 Flea medicine on both my 1 year old cats, Tiggie and Koe. By nighttime Tiggie was having seizures, so we had to take him to the emergency. There he stayed on an IV for the night and got some muscle relaxers. We were so happy that [...]
Hi, I noticed one flea on my one year old cat Tiki-Tiger and the pet stores were closed so I opted to buy the cheap Hartz brand flea drops, assuming they would be weak in comparison to Advantage and Frontline. I had to take Tiki into the ER Vet in the middle of the night [...]
I have not had Nina for long… only 6 months or so. She is a year old calico cat and sweeter than any other I know. I had just picked her up from the hospital last week as her system was backed up – hair issues, etc… She was back to her spunky self. I [...]
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