My cat Meriadoc was thirteen and still acted like a kitten. My elderly vet said he was the sweetest, most calm and laid-back cat he’d ever met. My cat Madison is half purebred show Persian and has a terrible problem with fleas. I bought the Hartz flea medication hoping it would help, because the more [...]

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My parents got Oliver after they lost their long time friend, Rocky. Oliver has been a great addition to the family. He looks like a corgi but he is a lab/beagle mix. Oliver is now 15 years old. He has gone down hill due to his old age. Recently Oliver has been struggling with an [...]

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I sent the following message to Hartz: I bought this toy for my 8 year old Golden who is a strong chewer but she doesn’t destroy toys easily – they wear down after a while but if they are good quality, they don’t break into dangerous pieces. I bought her the Dental Rubber Scrubber and [...]

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I am quite too upset to talk about this in detail but my cat was given the Hartz flea & tick drops for cats and kittens in August of this year (2006) and the very next month she became anemic, dehydrated lethargic and we had to put her to sleep because she was in so [...]

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According to the Hartz web site (hartz.com), their divisions include Harper’s Pet Products, VMX Pet Vantage, Wardley, LM Animal Farms, and Nature’s Gold. Please keep this in mind for your aquatic and small animals. My brother used Wardley products in his aquarium, and ended up having to trash the whole thing.

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same thing happened to us i put the drops on my cat and it made him very sick i found him lying in a box very limp and driping from his nose he also shivered very bad tupper lake new york

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I am so glad I found this article. My 3 month old tabby kitten, Kurt, has always had a bad problem with fleas. I’ve been using Gold’s shampoo on him but I recently picked up Hartz flea and tick spray for him. I’ve used it on him once with no ill effects but you can [...]

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i am SO glad i found your site BEFORE i ever used such a harmful product on my cats. i just wanted to add a word of warning to be very careful of some of the hartz toys as well since i have run into a few that are poor quality. some quick examples: 1. [...]

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I am amazed that there are so many similar stories out there like mine and still this product is available! My 1 1/2 year old health male cat all of a sudden started having seizures. We rushed him to the emergency vet center and was told that it was most likely caused by the “flea [...]

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I just adopted my kitten not long ago. She is 6 weeks old and still alive today, but I had a close call with one of the Hartz products. I was holding Chessy [that's the kitten's name] and I noticed a few fleas crawling on her. So, I took her to the bathroom and looked [...]

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After years of using Frontline without incident, I bought Hartz Flea and Tick drops to apply to my three year old pug while we were out of town on vacation. Within 48 hours we had called the vet because of her intense itching and redness, for which Benadryl did nothing. Her skin was actually a [...]

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I have an 8 week old lab/shepherd mix puppy. We adopted her when she was 7 weeks. She came from a shelter that had a heavy infestation of fleas. Her first night home she scratched like crazy. So I went to the local Wal-Mart and purchased the Hartz Flea and Tick 3-month supply of drops. [...]

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I selected unknowingly a flea spray last year that was supposed to be safe for kittens 8 weeks and oldre, my cat luna bell was 8 months i thought hartz had a good name so i went for it within days she died of liver failure,,, i still cant get over it….what a shame i [...]

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ON 9/28 ,I RAN OUT OF FRONTLINE FOR ONE OF MY 14 MONTH OLD BOXER BOYS(DABU) AND HAD MY HUBBY RUN OUT TO GET A SUBSTITUTE SEEING AS THEY HAD SOME BABY TICKS ON THEM AND I AM 8 MONTHS PREGNANT.WE TREATED THE HOUSE,LINENS AND WASHED THE BOYS BEFORE THE THE DROPS.SHAMUS GOT THE LAST [...]

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I just bought a bag of Hartz® NUTRITION™ Bonanza™ Guinea Pig Gourmet Diet from my local Wal-Mart. Inside the bag were LIVE TICKS!! Which have since, attatched themselves to Gizmo, my Guinea pig. I spoke to Wal-mart and Hartz about it. Both have given me the run around, blaming the other party for the problem. [...]

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This is absolutely ridiculous.I bought and opened my usual Hartz brand guinea pig food,poured my little guinea pig some and left the room for a few hours.I came back and decided i was going to pick him out some of his favorites from his food container..btw i always pour the whole bag of food into [...]

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The Hartz flea and tick drops killed 4 of my kittens. My kittens had fleas so I was trying to be a good mother to them. So I bought some of the Hartz flea and tick for kittens. The next day my room mate woke me up and said that there was something wrong with [...]

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In March of this year a stray cat I had been feeding became pregnant with a liter of kittens. And from that liter, I kept two of the male kittens. Up until about a month ago they were both healthy loving cats, who came indoors at night and played outside during the day. When my [...]

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Two hours after applying Hartz Ultra Guard Plus flea and tick drops on my cat he started to have a bad reaction. We noticed him running around as if trying to get the product off. His heart rate was elevated and he was panting. Upon taking him to an emergency vet he started salivating and [...]

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My wife & her son gave our cat a bath with Hartz 2 in 1 rid flea cat shampoo. The cat was found dead 9 hours later. The cat was 3 years old with no known issues prior we are aware of. Seems odd to me. My wife said she used this product before, she [...]

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A few months ago my mother had bought a Hartz flea collar for our little mutt, Chelsea. My mentally ill brother later that night took the collar out of it’s package and gave it to our dog to chew on. (we have chew jerkies, which he confused the collar as) About a half an hour [...]

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I bought some hartz flea drops for my tiny kitten because he was covered in fleas. I didn’t have much money so I bought the cheap kind not thinking anything of it. I put the drops on him and within about 6 hours this little bundle of fur was having seizures on my couch and [...]

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I read a couple of these stories and I’m not sure what do do. first i bought a Hartz Flea Collar and I saw what they can do… Can anyone please contact me and tell me what happened when they used a Hartz Flea Collar? I thank God for letting me find this website. i [...]

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Tigger was the oldest of my cats, we have had him for 2.5 years. My husband has been locked out from his work and then laid off from the new job he got just last week. The cats didn’t NEED flea and tick medicine but we had always had drops for them from the vets. [...]

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I took my pet cat to the vet a few days ago because he looked lethargic. They (the vets) recommended AMOXICILLIN. I was like if this will heal my cat faster–great! My cat had an injury and lost his front claw toenail a few weeks before—ouch! I waited a long time before seeing a vet, [...]

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I recieved a call from my mom few days ago telling me that our family dog Tarzan had thrown up and was not eating much. She said the minute she bathed him, he started to vomit. At first we thought it might be an allergic reaction since he was still walking around and being somewhat [...]

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Well we had a bad out break of fleas this year, so I bought the frontline for my cats and dogs and along with that I sprayed my house. Well needless to say frontline needs to know why their product doesn’t work, I was told to use their spray to save money because I have [...]

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Me and my boyfriend decided we wanted a kitten. We found a free kitten add in the paper so we called and went to check the last two kittens out. We decided we wanted both of them since they were so attached to eachother. So one was mine and the other was his. The kittens [...]

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My tea cup yorkie had a seizure today, it was the first time. He is a helthy little dog. After that, we figured out that we just started using a new hartz flea collar a couple of weeks ago. Aparently, this is not the only case, be carefull with this products.

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i haven’t all the money in the world and i had heard good things about hartz so i had bought it. every thursday i give my dog, and my sister in laws dog shay shay a bath. we ran out of our normal brand of dog shampoo, and i wouldn’t get payed for another couple [...]

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