I am SO HAPPY I came upon this web site. I had no idea that Hartz had such a reputation, I thought I had an isolated incident. I was contemplating purchasing Frontline or Hartz, actually I was looking up the active ingredients, and I am positive I will never buy Hartz again. A few months [...]

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My 9 month old cat hangs out with my two dogs. Now that the weather is nice, the dogs spend most of the day outside. My cat kept scrambling for the door so that he could be out with his friends. (Originally, we thought he’d be an indoor cat). After running after him one too [...]

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My cat Mackenzie almost died from Hartz flea meds. I put the medication as told on her. Not long after that she had a severe reaction to the meds. It made her have tremours and she couldn’t walk. If she tried she fell over. Her heart was racing. I took her to the vet, told [...]

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I bought the Hartz purple pink flea/tick collar for my adult cats on Thursday at a local Target. Upon returning from vacation on Monday, my two cats had lost all fur around their necks and had developed very large bloody hard tumor like places on the back of their necks where the collar’s presides. I [...]

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Please no not use Hartz ear mite medication. My dear sweet Twinkles is dying beacuse of it. Twinkles had ear mites. I used the medication in one ear to clean it. She ended up getting an ear infection. She has been on medication from the Vet. But she is older and she is not eating. [...]

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I work at a vet clinic. Every summer we get a countless stream of flea toxicity in cats (and dogs) from Hartz products. Now while I greatly dislike Hartz and all that they do, people need to start realizing exactly what they’re putting on the animals they live with. Hartz, like all flea products, is [...]

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AFTER FINDING A TICK ON OUR 5 YEAR OLD MIXED BREED BORDER COLLIE, WE APPLIED THE HARTZ FLEA AND TICK DROPS AS DIRECTED YESTERDAY EVENING. WE NOTICED HIM DRINKING LOTS OF WATER THIS MORNING, BUT DIDN’T THINK ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THEN WE NOTICED THAT HE HAD DIARHEA AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM AS COMFORTABLE AS [...]

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After applying Hartz UltraGuard plus drops to my cat’s neck, she lost all of the fur under her collar and now has a ring of red, irritated and itchy skin around her neck. The vet says that chances are the fur will not grow back because the chemicals damage the hair follicals. Four days later, [...]

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IT WAS ONE YEAR AGO TODAY THAT I LOST MY KITTEN L.O.R. TO HARTZ FLEA & TICK DROPS. IT WAS VERY HARD TO GET OVER A DEATH I CAUSED BY BEING CHEAP AND USING OVER THE COUNTER DROPS. AFTER MUCH THINKING I DECIDED TO GET A COMPANION FOR MY OTHER CAT “GOLLUM”. IN JULY I [...]

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I recently purchased an 8mo. old kitten from the humane society. Her name is kitkat & she is GORGEOUS!! The humane society administred the product ‘advantage’ before leaving the facility & kitkat had no problems what so ever. When it came time to re-treat her I purchased Hartz flea & tick for her weight size [...]

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I put Hartz’s One Spot flea control on my cat, Leo, about a week ago. Then I began to notice that he was having trouble walking (peripheral neuropathy) and maintaining his balance. He gradually became lathargic and was not acting like his usual up-and-about self. This morning I awoke to Leo having a siezure. Last [...]

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I USED THIS PRODUCT ON MY CAT RECENTLY. NOT KNOWING THAT IT WAS MEANT ONLY FOR DOGS, I APPLIED THE HARTZ ONE SPOT ON MY CAT. WITHIN A FEW HOURS SHE BEGAN CONVULSING AND SALIVATING. I RUSHED HER TO THE ANIMAL EMERGENCY CENTER WHERE SHE SPENT 2 DAYS WITH SEVERE CONVULSIONS. THE VETS GAVE HER [...]

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I have a mii poodle about 20lbs. A couple of years ago I had gotten hm a flea collar from Hartz, becasue it was cheaper than other ones and had similiar ingredients than other ones. That same evening I looked at my puppy (not really 2 yrs. old then) and couldn’t believe it. His eyes [...]

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I just got back from the vet’s. My cat had been stumbling, weak, sleeping a lot, and not purring when petted. He kept eating and drinking, but he had trouble jumping up on his favorite perches, and he had lost all interest in playing. I was worried about Lyme Disease, because we just moved to [...]

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hi. just wanted you to know that even birds can be hartz victims too. i have posted links here that tell the whole story as it unfolds, but the gist of the story is: the hartz bonanza cockatiel food caused malnutrition in a family of i cockatiels i rescued. (i am an avian rescuer, once [...]

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I recently went to Target to buy my new cat something for fleas. I happen to be looking in Target by the animal supplies when this women came up to me and out of no where said “If you want your pet to live do not buy any Hartz product or it will kill your [...]

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Two weeks ago I put Hartz flea and tick drops on my healthy 13 year old Golden Retriever. The next day he started vomiting and stopped eating. I took him to our vet, who unfortunately hadn’t heard about any of these reactions. He sent us home with antibiotics and stomach medicine, but my dog just [...]

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We applied Hartz 3 in one to our 9-month old beagle a week ago. Now his hair is coming out and his skin is infected where I applied the drops. What do I do? He does not seem to be sick, just has a skin infection. It is gross looking and I know it is [...]

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I was out of Advantage and borrowed a tube of Hartz for my cat from a freind. Bad idea, long story short, we ended up @ the emergency vet around 6 the next morning. Molly having seizures the whole way there in my arms! Why this product is on the market is beyond me. My [...]

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I never knew what was happening to my 9 year old Lab until I read on this site. Today My Lab Jake had his second seizure in 7 mo I used to use advantage then 1 year ago I swithced to hartz Oh my god how I wish I hadn’t . I will never give [...]

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Seven days ago I was shopping in Walmart purchasing dog food and items. I saw the Hartz Flea and Tick drops and decided to buy it for my three dogs. I applied the medication on Tuesday to all three dogs, a four year old and two eight month old pups. On Thursday my niece who [...]

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This is in response to CatCrazy’s story ” OH-NO… I’m feeding my kittens Hartz Milk Replacement Formula” Let me first say that I’m not an expert, but I did raise a very healthy tabby which I found when he was around 1 week of age (the mother was a stray that had been hit by [...]

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After four weeks of tireless efforts to befreind a georgeous cream seal point stray, atlast, she was mine. I named her Deja Blue- because while biking through our new neighborhood we saw her several times, and she had the most incredible siamese slanted, blue as the ocean eyes. She was desperate to be loved and [...]

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I just returned home frome the vet’s office where I was told that my dog, Primo was having a reaction to Hartz flea and tick spray. Primo is a 2 year-old, 22 pound cocker spaniel/golden retriever mix who plays like a 6 month-old puppy. Earlier today my husband and I took Primo with us for [...]

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I have two cats: one named stuart (male) and one named misty (female). I also have a black lab/shepard mix named fluffy (also female) I had fluffy on HARTZ flea drops last year with no reprocutions (thankfully) and my dad bought a HARTZ 3 in 1 flea collar for cats that we were about to [...]

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Hi Everyone. In September 2005 I posted to this site about my dog, Ringo (post below). After 2 months of being in and out of the hospital, feeding him liquified dog food using a needleless syringe, and other continued symptoms, Ringo seemed to be on the mend! He was finally walking straight and his eyes [...]

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Little did I know that so many other pet owners have gone through what we went through yesterday! I had bought some Hartz Advanced Care flea treatment last summer on sale, and I figured I would stray from my usual Frontline. (big mistake) I applied one tube of flea killer on each of our two [...]

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Last week I started getting this itchy place on my arm where I had a scratch. At first I thought the scratch was just infected, then it swelled up. Then it spread and got yellow fluid under. After a while it itched and burned like mad and spread to about a 4″ area. It had [...]

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Nature’s Gold is another sub company of Hartz. I haven’t contacted them yet about the death of my hamster due to their product. I purchased nature’s gold “premium small animal bedding” which has pine and chlorophyll (inside has green and yellow pine shavings). It states on the back of the plastic packaging that it’s product [...]

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My small sized adult shih tzu named Madison recently ran out of her Advantage, and I decided to save some money and order it online from Petshed.com because it’s much easier and cheaper. Well, somehow she got fleas and was constantly itching herself before the Advantage came in. I started to feel bad for her [...]

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