DANGER!!! Sergeants Gold Flea and Tick Squeeze-On

Thank heaven for this web site. I gave my 1 1/2 year old miniture Shnauzer Seargeants Gold flee and tick squeeze-on on Sunday morning after his bath. On sunday night I thought my dog had rabies! He was wheezing and panting, foaming at the mouth, crying and whimpering. I had him on my bed and the more I tried to wipe his mouth them more his thick saliva foamed out. He stayed in my room until about 2:00am.I finally put him in his kennel after it seemed as though he was exhausted. In the morning I got up about around 5:00 ready to take him to the vet and although he was not 100% he was better. as Monday wore on he did slowly but surely become himself again. I called a friend who started to research what could have been the cause for his strange behaivor and sudden illness. she found this website and NOW after reading other comments of dog and cat owners I am sure that I unknowingly poisoned my own dog. Why isn’t there warnings about side effects on the box? Why is this stuff still on the shelves at stores? Why is it after the fact that our pets are harmed we find out the dangers? I blame myself for not checking into it more thoroughly. Hartz and Seargeants have been around as long as I can remember, and I became trusting the name thinking only that it is a “brand” name they must be ok right? WRONG. I will never make that mistake again and can only hope that other pet owners do their research before the harm is done.

This is outrageous!!! I can not believe the company is still selling this stuff if it is doing so much harm. We just put some of the Sergeants flea & tick squeeze-on onto our miniature schnauzer last night and he was up all night twitching and roaming around looking for water. I am going to call the store where we bought the product and ask them to remove it from the shelf.

Update after my last post.
I talked to the company late this afternoon & I was told they were not going to pay for anything & I was told that everyone on this site are not telling the truth. They became very upset when I told them I email pictures to family & friends & put a post on this site. I have contacted Wal-Mart & after I told them I would be filing a law suite with their name added & they will be filling a report to the main office after they get a statement from us & they want to see the pictures. I was told that after they looked into this they would contact Sergeants & decide if they should keep selling that brand. Sergeants rep I talked to hung up on me after I voice how upset my wife & I were. She said I was over reacting & she didn’t care for my comments about the product. This company could care less about our pets, nobody even said they were sorry. She just kept telling me I did something wrong & our Vet didn’t know what he was talking about. I’m going to bring all I can to bear on this company & hit them were it hurts, the pocket book. Thanks for reading & be careful with this company. Rick & Lana in Missouri

I, too, used this product unknowingly. I put it on my small dog Sunday morning. She was acting strange all day – but mainly just restless. By Sunday evening (12 hours later), she couldn’t stop itching and was extremely hyper. The only thing that seemed to soothe her was if I kept gently rubbing her head and neck area, which I did all night long. Whenever I stopped she would start scratching and running around. I called my vet and was told I was extremely lucky burning, itching and hyperness were her only problems. More common was the dog not being able to walk! This stuff affects their central nervous systems. (as stated previously being same chemicals as nerve gas! I can’t even imagine! How does this stuff make it to store shelves??!!) I gave her a benydryl, as instructed, every 4 hours but it did not help at all. I took her to the vet for a cortisone shot early Monday morning. It took about 12 hours before I noticed any relief. Even now, 4 1/2 days later she is still not herself. How long before these awful effects wear off? I can’t believe I poisoned my little girl! I’m just sick about it!

FOR LYNNE,

I’m sorry for what your dog have to go through, Have you tried to give her a bath with dishwasher liquid ?? Maybe it will help her? That’s what I did with my dog twice and now she’s getting better, only depend on me and my husband to keep itchy/rub her.. at least now she can walk again.

Amy

Hello

I am absolutely horrified to find out that my experience with this product was far from unusual.

On Aug 24 I applied Sargent’s gold flea and tick to my dogs and almost immediatly they started to display the symtoms many people have discribed. They were running around like crazy, whining, seemed to be in pain, didn’t sleep, panting fast heart rate. My husband thought it might be an allergic reaction but I thought it strange that both dogs reacted this way. We bathed the dogs repeatedly but didn’t seem to help much. I have an aloe drink I use and also an antioxidant that is good at detoxing so I gave them this and it seemed to help.

My husband thought we should contact the company so googled “sargents flea and tick” and was shocked to see how many sites came up to complain about bad reactions to this product. I do not understand why this is still sold. and will be contacting the epa and my state representatives to see if something can be done. this product should have more regulation. I know I used the product correctly. I have read a lot of the complaints from other people and they have stated that they did. The company can say that any pet can have an allergic reaction to something which is true and also a few people might use it wrong but to have the number of people saying the reaction is the same has to mean something is wrong with the product and it is not safe to use.

Apparently the company does not care as they seem to be always saying the product wasn’t used right or an allergic reaction

I will never buy anything of theirs again.

It’s 5:30 in the morning and I just finished giving my sheltie her third bath after using this horrible product. Gave her a childrens benydrill, and am waiting to see what happens next. I used the sargents gold drops for under 20 lb dogs and read the instructions carefully twice before applying it. It took a few hours before the symptoms became apparent, but thanks to the tips on this website, I washed her multiple times with dish soap immediately. I will be able to take her to a vet in a few hours. She is still bouncing off the walls, but she isn’t whimpering anymore. Hope this does the trick.

There has to be a connection between Sergeant’s Gold at Walmart and the Sentrypro XFC sold at PetsMart!!!

See this other long list of poisonings!!!

http://dogblog.dogster.com/2008/04/08/sargeants-gold-flea-medication-almost-kills-dogsters-lucky-and-nala/#comment-463415

http://www.dealcatcher.com/forums/m_497932/tm.htm

So many recent poisonings….

Lili is still breathing hard today!!!
Very Upset about this! Will contact Sergeants yet there has to be something more we all can do to stop this!!!

Sergeant’s ought to be hit with a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit for this stuff! It’s September 1st, and I just applied Sergeant’s Gold squeeze-on to my twenty-pound miniature poodle. The results were very much the same as for many others on this site. She became very agitated, couldn’t sit still, and winced every few minutes as if she’d been bitten. After I started getting suspicious, I washed her down with dish detergent and started looking on the web. Found a couple of sites mentioning pyrethrin sensitivity and gave her some benedryl. Then looked at this site and discovered this has been going on for some months, and the product is still on the shelves. I’ve a good mind to file the lawsuit myself!

Our dogs nearly died too, It was awful foaming, twitching, and flopping around, crying, moaning just cannot sit still.
Bathe them in Blue Dawn Dish liquid, you can do it even 3 or 4 times, this has helped.
Please people do not buy Sergeants Gold, or Silver or Hartz.
It was like they were being shocked by electricity the way they were acting. Thank god they are finally acting a little better after 3 days.

I hate Sergeants/Hartz and whoever knew about this stuff b/f it went on the market! My shih tzu is crying and running around the house like a mad dog! I’m totally freaking out now that I have found out about this stuff! WHY ARE THEY SELLING THIS???? Totally #$%@#@ up!!!
I have given her medicine and she has had two baths….another one is coming soon.
Something needs to be done about this. THIS IS INSANE!!!!
What else can we do about this?????

I used sergeants gold today on my 12 lb terrier, and 0ne hour later, she was screeching, jumping in the air, while trying to nip at her back, I was scared to death, she was running from room to room while crying. I called my vet, he said never use sergents, and to give her a bath, I have given her 3 baths 2 times with Dawn detergent, I even used Vinegar to bring Ph level to normal, this did not work. I called 800 # that is on the box, and she told me to use dawn again and to use vitamin e oil. that e oil was the trick to fix it!!!, That did not work, I gave her a childs benadryl, and it is seven hours later, and she still has not quieted down, I will take her to the vet, unless emergency tonight, I love this dog and am worried as much as I did with my children. This should be taken off the market.DO Not purchase this product. Probably made in China. My Lolly is in misery, and I am furious.

I’m so glad I found this site. I applied Sargent’s Gold flea and tick liquid to my two cats a couple of days ago. Since then they’ve been acting strange. Thank God, not foaming at the mouth or having seizures, but definitely different. They’re both licking and rubbing at the area where the liquid was applied, like it’s making them itch and they’re trying to get it off. I’m afraid that they’ve ingested a lot of it from licking their fur. I’m also concerned that this product may have affected their senses of smell or taste, since they’ve both lost their appetites over the past two days (and they usually can’t get enough to eat). They’re also both distracted and nervous. I plan on bathing them both tonight with dish liquid.

I feel awful that I didn’t bother to check out reviews of this product before putting it on my kitties. Soaping up a couple of water-hating cats – what a fantastic end to my day. Thanks, Sargent’s.

I bought the Sergeant’s flea and tick (gold) treatment for my three dogs yesterday, I bought it at Walmart and applied it at around 7pm. The dogs were outside most of the evening with my sons. When they came in for the night, the dogs immediately came into my room and they were all very wrestless and digging and scratching more than ever before. I did not get up though until 4am, when one of them started to whine. It finally dawned on me that it might be side affects to the flea treatment. I got online and sure enough; the warnings were all there. My dogs had many of the symptoms as described, but no frothing at the mouth or vomiting.. They were all running around, rolling and rubbing on the carpet and scratching like crazy. I gave them all the benedryl and baths and fed them, soon they were all resting quietly. I went to work for half a day and when I got home, they seemed to be acting normal. I will never purchase another product from Sergeant’s Beware, this product could be disastrous!!!

I have returned the Sergean’t Flea and Tick Medicine back to Walmart and asked the management to remove it from their shelves. They removed it from their shelf in the one store and told me that I needed to contact the home office at Walmart.com and file a complaint. So I did and would encourage you to do the same. Let’s get this stuff off the shelf! My dogs are better, but not quite 100%. They are still scratching and swelled up. The benedryl is helping. Also getting them to drink enough water and eat food is helping.

I too made the mistake that a lot of people made and not did my research because I have become to American standards of safely. I gave my dog that Sergeant’s gold stuff thinking of was being proactive and kicking fleas and tick before they got out of hand. Well I had put my dog in her doggie house for the night when she start to whine, I thought she was trying to get her way and try to sleep on my bed. Well after hearing whine for very long time I check on her and she was just dripping wet, at first I thought she wet her bed. But come to find out when I let her out I saw that she was scratching herself like crazy. An at this point light bulb turns on in my head and decides to try to give her a bath to get that Gold crap off her. It seems to help for a while. Then I googled the stuff and it lead me to this website. After reading a lot of horror stories, so far mine is not as bad but it’s not over yet. I plan on taking her like 2 hour when the Animal ER is open on Sunday to see what they can do if she does not get better then. Right now she seems to have gotten a bit better. But I recommend you take the advice from the 800 from the back of the box and what you read online. Do you research, if you looking this crap up your in for a long night.
Wish and my dog luck as I wish you luck.

ok, I have two pugs, and have read every one of these entries, ,it has been a week since I have applied the ointment to them, they both are still not right and have continuous symptoms,,
I took them to the vet the following day because of all the erratic behavior and after at least six baths trying to remove this stuff.. the vet injected a shot and put them on prednisone.. its a week later, they continue to breath as if they had just run a race and now their hair where the ointment had been originally applied is coming off and their skins look so sore, almost something that you would see in a horror show..rare, red, and swollen skin.. how long and how many more symptoms are they gonna suffer?? I’m worried at this point that this will not end nicely for them..I plan to retake them to the vet in the morning but would like to know if any of you experienced the skin having a reaction like this before I go.. My vet, even though he realized what actually caused the damage was reluctant to clearly state it allowed..but if it was his pet, he would be different I’m sure.. please tell me if any of you had any skin problems and what to do.. one of the pugs back of his neck is just awful now..

i feel no need to tell you all the symptoms of my dogs after using the sargents flea and tick meds, because they are the same as all the others! this is absolutely ridiculous! how on earth are these people allowed to keep selling these things? and it breaks my heart that in so many of these posts the pet owner feels guilty for “poisoning” their pet, it’s not your fault it is this evil company’s fault and they should be SHUT DOWN! if i could afford a lawyer i would try and do it myself. this is nuts! good luck with all of your dogs…

Hello this is Michael I could not believe what I was reading as my two little dogs were suffering the same symptoms form using Sergeant’s flea and tick That you place on the neck and down the spine. This stuff is a poison for our pets. If the pediatricians were prescribing medicines for our children that did half the stuff this garbage does it would be on every news network and they would be out of business. After leaving the groomers this week I went to and area store to get flea preventative for my two dogs. I read the boxes and what the product did. I did not read it was a pesticide and poison and that hundreds of dogs and cats have been traumatized or killed. The only warning on or in the box was do not use the dogs type on cats. And yet this poison is on the shelf. Shortly after putting it on the two dogs they began two have fits and cry and roll on the floor. We thought my Lord what is going on. Come to find out when I called the Sergeant’s Phone # and had to wait ten minutes that my dogs had been given insecticide on there skin and was having a severe reaction. I’m not the sharpest knife in the kitchen but I realized if the phones were backed up ten minutes this was some bad stuff. They were traumatized by this and did not sleep for 24 hr. and kept scratching and digging and whining. I stayed up all night rubbing the one dogs back and every time I stopped she would jump up and start biting and diging.My daughter stayed up with the other dog. It was sickening to watch my little dogs stand there half awake and there legs kept moving to scratch. The hotline told me they were feeling a pin like feeling all over there skin. Now after 24 hr. they are still having troubles from this. When I looked on the web and found story after story of this sickening thing. We took the dogs to the vet today and found out that many times a week people bring there loved ones / pets into the vet for the same thing. It also cost me $126.00. I’m very angry that this could happen and worried it could happen to another family. I have called the company and demand retribution for the vet bill. I went to Wal Mart and told them they have this poison on there shelves. I will be contacting the Michigan Attorney General and my attorney. I’m angry as I write this and I encourage all of us to contact stores appropriate government offices and demand that this poison and others like it be taken off the shelves. I do not know if they will listen to me but if there were a few thousand people demanding this some would listen. I’m know different from any of you folks in the love and commitment we have for a little fury loved ones. And the joy they bring to our homes and life’s. Many times I look at my two little dogs and say daddy would not take a, million dollars for you. And to see this greedy companies making money at there health and effecting our home I will do all I can to stop it.
Thank you
Michael

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I have 3 dachshunds and just moved to a new neighborhood. Our new neighbors have two dogs. Our girls have never had flees before in their entire lives. But we found some on them today. I always had the vet treat them. I believe the neighbors dogs are infested because they are constantly scratching. I decided to check the web for a cheaper alternative and came upon this website. THANK GOD. My girlfriend had suggested Sergean’t Flea and Tick Medicine. Now the guestion is…Are all flea and tick medicines the same, just different brands? I don’t want to put my girls through anything like what I’ve read here. What to do…what to do…

hey all, i just gave my 1 year old westie the sergants silver about 3:00pm today. i put him in the kitchen while i left for a couple hours and when i returned he had destroyed the kitchen. it was wierd because he had not done that since he was a young pup then he started biteing at his back and could not sit still. he was breathing fast and was drooling all over the place. i gave him a bath in cold water and it seemed to help a whole lot.

Tonight while at CVS I noticed the Sergeants Gold flea / tick tubes. I picked it up thinking I was doing the right thing for my boxer puppy. I read the label more then once making sure it was ok and she was in the weight range. Within a hour of putting it on she start making weird noises and licking her lips non-stop. I immediately gave her a bath (twice) and it she stopped making the noise. I then looked online and this site was the first hit. I am so glad I found this. I gave her a half a tablet of Benedryl as a precaution. With the amount of complaints on this site I am in shock that this product is still being sold. Last time I ever purchase one of their products and you can bet I will be telling all my pet owning friends to stay far away.

I too have experienced first-hand the terrible side effects this product causes. My girlfriend and I used Sergeant’s Gold on our three-year-old Chihuahua-Pug mix, Penny. Even though we too washed off the product within an hour of application (when she started acting oddly) she drooled incessantly, ran about in a daze, suffered from incontinence and had a number of nervous tics for well over a 24-hour period. Please DO NOT use this product!

Hello all,

This is another occurence of this poison being sold as a over the counter flea killer. This is a scaring situation when Hartz and sergeant’s know this is ill fate without precaution. I will never ever buy hartz and sergeant products ever again. I have two sharpeis and both are foaming and restless beyond belief. OUR PETS have Rights TOO !!!

I’ve just went through the same problem. Bought this stuff at the local grocery and before I knew it my dog was trying to scratch himself to death and kept doing this thing with his tongue like he had peanut butter in his mouth.

Gave him plenty of water.

I have bathed him twice and I surely don’t have the money to take him to a vet.

When you all mention bendryl what do you mean? allergy medicine or what? And how do you administer it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

My aunt put some Sergeant’s Gold Flea & Tick Squeeze-on for Dogs on her new dog early this morning before going to a meeting. When I got up I didn’t notice anything wrong with the dogs except that it seemed a little annoyed with the stuff on his back. I left to give my mother a ride to the airport and when I got back the dog was throwing up, foaming at the mouth, wheezing and freaking out all over the place. I wasn’t sure what was wrong until I caught him licking at it and then I knew. I gave him a bath to wash stuff off. His skin around where the stuff was put was red and swollen and looked like a big sore. While drying him off I looked up info about the product and found this site. After reading what others have said I immediately took him to the vet where they gave him a shot and some pills to take for the next few days. He is doing a lot better now and I am glad that he didn’t have to go through that crap for very long.

I guess my aunt thought she was saving some money by buying this instead of the more expensive front line. Looks like she was wrong. The vet bill was way more than the stuff she should have bought. The worst part is that the dog had to go through that bull shit and he still has fleas.

Used Sargent’s gold on my 2 English cockers. Within 1/2 hour both were agitated and drooling profusely. This is Sunday, only emergency vets open. Called poison control number on box. Disassociated technician gave rudimentary advice to wash dogs and give chicken stock, to ‘wash the taste from thier mouthes’ They are both unusually hyper right now (hour after bath, 1 quart of chix stock). I’ll be visiting the vet no-matter-what tomorrow. These dogs are involved in field trials and hunt tests. They are 2 years old and I have well over 10 thousand dollars invested in them. Money was not a factor in selecting this product, frankly I never looked at the price. It was convenient for me to buy it at the grocery. (I did read the package, and applied it properly.) I’ll never use a Sargent product again, and will forever re-tell this account and encourage everyone interested to stay away.

our 3 yr old 40lb aussie/shepard mix is having many of these same symptoms after we applyed the sargents gold flea/tick gel. unlike a lot of you with initial reactions, my dog started reacting about 12 hours after the application. being very clumsy, twitching, heavy breathing, almost like she was out of control of herself, convustions, she almost fell down the stairs which is nothing like her. we got suspicous of the sargents and we gave her 2 baths already, and many treats and bynadril and h2o and a baby motrin…now we are trying to get her to sleep.
i can not belive this product is out for people to buy…i am sickened from the thought of all these animals going through this horrible suffering because some scum wants to make a few extra bucks on their product. its almost midnight now, im sure i will be up all night w our beloved pooch. everyone here needs to get this stuff out of the stores.., i am going to do everything i can to help save other innocent pets out there. these shameful people know what this procuct does, but continue to sell it for use?? how can that be possible!!? what is wrong with people?…..

I purchased sergeants gold flea and tick squeeze today trying to save a few dollars. we have a severe flea problem in our yards. i applied it as reccomended to both of my 40 pound queensland heelers at about three o’clock pm after running some more errands my wife and i got home and had dinner and went to bed. my male cryed all night. i thought he just wanted to come in the bedroom. i wouldn’t let him on the bed because of the fleas. as it turned out he was panting heavily, drooling excessively and his skin was hot to the touch, also he would chase his but like something was messing with him, then turn around as far as he could and chew on himself. the female was having similar reactions although not as severe. at about 2 in the morning we knew something was wring and assuming it was the flea meds, went gave him a bath with shampoo, i then went online and was blown away at all of these postings about this product. the silver lining is: these postings were very helpful, i bathed them both 2 more times with dishsoap and gave them both benadryl and they seem to be feeling alittle better. it is now 4;30 in the morning on a sunday night, and i have to be at work in a couple of hours. DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT!!!!! YOU WILL REGRET IT.

Unfortunately, I am going through the same horror this evening that the rest of you have had with this product. I bought it at a local Kroger store this evening and applied it to both of our poodles. They are both running all over and scratching like crazy. Their eyes look funny too like they have some kind of intoxication…hard to explain. They have had 4 baths each and I am applying vitamin E oil to their necks (This is what the represenative at the 800 number on the box said to do). I am just watching them close and trying to decide whether I should take them to the vet or not. I certainly wish that I would have seen this site before I ever bought this horrible stuff. I can’t believe with all of these issues, they are still allowed to sell it!

I sure wish I had done my research first… we have two long hair chihuahuas, about 9 pounds. The older one, Sunny, has been treated for years using the Hartz brand flea and tick. The younger one, Wiley, was treated once, no problems. Yesterday was the time for treatment and I only had one packet left, so I went to town and bought the Sergeant’s Gold Pro squeeze-on. It was actually an upgrade as this stuff killed larva and eggs. Wiley began convulsing about 3 hours later with same reaction as everyone else. Sunny was fine. This morning, after 4 hours with the vet last night and an anti-convulsive medicine, Wiley is fine, but I feel so guilty that I almost killed my dog… Something needs to be done about this stuff!

i gave my two dogs this flee and tick medication and now they keep wining and running around rubbing there nose on everything and leaving it soaked i tried to wash it all off with dish soap i did this twice for each dog and its not helping at all and theres nothing more i can do im only 17 years old and i dont have a vet or the money to take them to one i am scared for my dogs everytime my dogs cry i cry im so sad the i might lose them because i got this and put it on them because i heard it was good now i just want to scream

I write this after having used Sergeant’s Gold on my corgi several days ago. The odd behavior started with him finding very strange places in the house to lie down – places where he’d never rested before. I noticed the panting on several different occasions, but it was warm and I thought he was just hot with his thick fur. The last 3 days he’s hardly had a moment’s peace or rest. Whining/crying (which he never does) and constantly jerking his head around to try to bite/scratch the area where I applied this garbage. He is SO uncomfortable/tormented. Now I notice he’s twitching and breathing harder than normal, and SHEDDING – oh, how he’s been shedding the last few days – just terrible!. I am SO ANGRY! He gets some temporary relief when I comb/brush him, but sometimes his entire coat shakes/moves really weird when he’s brushed. I gave him a bath yesterday morning, to no avail. Bought some hydrocortisone spray for dogs, which helped a little bit but with very temporary relief. He was in the lake today, very itchy afterward. Got another bath tonight and hydrocortisone spray. Tonight he started with the twitching and heavy breathing. I cannot believe this stuff is to toxic and still for sale.

I think there would be others who would join in a class action suit as well. Another gentleman set up a site including videos as to what flea shampoo did to his lab a few weeks ago as it died because of the poisons used in the shampoo. Both Hartz & Sargents use these poisons and both are equally guilty in how they delude the public at large into thinking their products are good to use when in fact they are not.
They claim they comply with government regulations, which means that is another area to be addressed as those regulations need to be changed in order to protect the public from using these products on their pets.
Just the fact that they sell them, instills trust in the people who bought them with the good intentions of helping their pets. No one would buy them to intentionally harm their animals.
AS to how people apply them, many make mistakes as the printing on these cards is small and the warnings not looking more than a required disclaimer that is not taken too seriously as the only thing a pet owner wants to accomplish is to rid their pet of the fleas.
I had a tube of Sargents in a drawer out of the packaging for a few weeks along with another package of Hartz. I was waiting to get more so I could treat all our pets at the same time, but 2 cats got out and they brought fleas in the house and infected my other cat who never had been out nor ever had fleas before. Each cat had a flea collar on that were only a month old so that showed me that their flea collars were junk.
Feeling sorry for my cat as she was scratching so much, I took that one single dose tube of flea drops out of the draw and first put a few drops on the backs of the necks of the other two cats and then the last 2 drops on my cat. This was a single dose application, but spread over 3 cats so if anything it should have been weaker not stronger.
The other 2 cats seemed okay but 3 hours later mine was foaming at the mouth and seizing and convulsing necessitating emergency vet care that saved her life but cost $485
A few days later I noticed our larger cat was vomiting alot and kept vomiting all week. Now 2 weeks later our white cat is beginning to seem sick.So that means they each have had some sort of reaction, my grey cat being the smallest had the most severe.
I cant help but wonder what a full dose would have done!
I thought the Sargents tube was a puppy doze so I thought I had put puppy flea drops on her so I wrote that I used puppy drops on her but still thought it was something I could have done since their other meds for worms is the same. I thought all flea drops were the same but found out that the one poison has a buffer to make it work in dogs but is toxic for cats.
I felt horrible that since I assumed I had used puppy drops, I thought I was wrong and at fault but my son let me know that that tube we got at the discount store was cat flea drops, even though the wrapper was gone.
Now after reading many other accounts from other people who did apply the drops or shampoos right and their animals still died or needed hospitalizations, shows that problem is in the products themselves which is a big money maker for the corporations that could easily switch ingredients to non toxic ones.
It would cut into their profits so they rather let animals suffer and die than to do the right thing and make safer products for consumers.
In my case the wrapper was discarded weeks before the product was used and the tube was given to the vet and later disposed of so I dont have the ‘evidence’ any longer but I would certainly be willing to provide the vet records [and bill!] and testify as to what happened to my cat. I am sure other victims would testify too, especially if it would lead to new regulations and new ingredients that prove to be safer.

I was in the grocery store shopping and I decided to get some shampoo for Shadow my dog, and then I remembered I needed to get some Hartz flea and tick stuff. I started looking for Hartz but could not find it the only thing I found for a dog that is over 60 pounds was Sergeants Gold Flea and Tick Squeeze, so I bought it. Shadow is a Shepard mix and a large dog. I gave her a bath and then I applied this Sergeants Gold to her. The first signs that something was wrong I kind of dismissed thinking I got water in her ears and that was why she was shaking her head. Then I noticed that she kept moving her teeth over her tongue over and over. Which I thought was happening because and scratched her back and I saw her lick her feet.Shadow started drooling and frothing at the mouth and whining and throwing up. I called my sister and I had her look up this product and immediately started freaking out because all of your posts on this horrible product. I did everything that you guys said to do and almost instantly she started feeling better. I used almost a hole thing of dawn on her and went to the store and bought chicken broth and gave it to her. She still had the head shaking thing going on until I went to sleep but I got up and checked on her all night and she was doing well. I cannot believe this product is still being sold at stores. When I called the 1800 number they basically tried to make me feel like this was my fault saying i did not apply it right and all of this. The package is rather large and that stuff is really oily I didn’t even use the whole tube I would say maybe half of the tube. Then I took a dry rag and rubbed some of it off. So it wasn’t like I applied the whole thing to her. That stuff is potent. I always check and read packages before I give my dog anything. I also let her know that this must be something that happens all of the time because so many people have had these issues with their product. Something needs to happen. What if i left after giving her a bath and something happened to her. This is crazy. DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT ON YOUR PET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After I gave him the baths and the benedryl the next day he seems to back to his normal self and lazy and not wanting to go outside but for his daily walk. He’s not pacing the house like a mad dog now. So hoping for the best. I don’t want to go through that again. Last night I couldn’t get him to stay in one place. Hopefully he’ll eat today and drink his water. that’s my only worry right now. he ate his bones so thats a good I think. I hope these companies pay for their stupidity. If there is ever a lawsuit please notify me. Be glad to help in any way.

I given my Cat, the flea and tick controll for Cats yestersday. I noticed she wasnt eating, she slept behaind the sofa, and could hardly raise her head. All within 5 hours. I reserched the product, and when I found out how deadly this product actually is, i took her stright to the vet. She had multipul sezisures, and is now barly alive. She was given medication, and is still at the vet under a close eye. I am very upset and Very Very hurt that the manifacture is still selling theis product. I hope that i will be picking up my cat alive soon.

You guys need to pay better attention to your pets! Would you give a human child HALF of your Medication? Here take half my Vicodin to a 5 year old for an injured knee? Follow the weight guidelines Idoit.
If you love your pets as much as you claim why wouldnt you have taken your pet to the vet to get treated professionally? I am just SICK of reading how you blatantly disregarded instrustions and then have the nerve to complain.
If there was a Pet Walfare Service you would lose your pets. Stop using a scape dog.

I am outraged by this whole mess. I, like all of you purchased this poison without doing the research. I had no idea what I was in for. My dog Peanut had the erratic behavior of digging and scratching and acting like she was on fire. She couldn’t keep still. I didn’t even realize why she was acting that way since I didn’t make the connection that it was Sergeant’s Gold that I put on her 3 hrs earlier. When I went to check on line, it finally occurred to me that she was having an allergic reaction to this product. I gave her a bath and took her to the emergency vet. The vet was not surprised at all when I told her the product name. Peanut was up all night and so was I. Peanut is my child and I would gladly suffer for her, if I could. It was agony watching her in pain all night. She is still suffering the effects of this poison and the vet says she will more than likely feel this way for about 3-4 days. I’m going to make it my mission to get this product off the shelves. I can’t believe how many complaints there are for this product and it’s still being sold. If it wasn’t for the vet telling me that this was very common, I would be blaming myself. I thought this was an isolated incident. I do feel guilty but now my guilt has turned into anger. I am hoping to bring this company down through any legal means possible. Hopefully, no other pets will suffer like ours did. I hope all your furry companions recovered. Let’s pray my Peanut does.

I found few fleas on my 1yr old mini poodle/pomeranian mix.
I went to CVS and found Sergeant’s Gold Flea and Tick squeeze over the counter. I feel so dumb that I was actually glad to found this cheap and convinient treatment.

After applying this to my dog, she acted so weird, including running around restlessly, scratching, licking her paws, panting, breathing heavily, and moaning. I was so stunned first I did not know what to do first. I bathed her with her usual shampoo and gave her a tiny little dose of benadryl pill mixed with water.

She had trouble breathing and calming down but she finally fell asleep after HECTIC 2 hours.

THIS PRODUCT IS A POISON!
DONT USE THIS EVER AGAIN!!

Oh my gosh. It’s August 25th 2009. I put this on my pitbull husky around 6:30. He is sensitive to flea medicine anyway. He was crying from his kennel at 9:30 and would not go to sleep. I went down stairs and he was frothing at the mouth. I let him outside and he immediatly ate grass. Then he came in and vomited. I looked up Sergeant’s Gold and I am very worried and disturbed. I have given him a bath in dishsoap and am about to give him another. My mother is on her way with chicken soup and benedryl. I live in a small town and you better believe Price Chopper is going to hear about this. This is rediculous. He better be okay. He is a family member. No wonder the damn stuff kills fleas. It just about kills your dog doing it.

This happened to our dogs too, all that is stated above. I am going to get to the end of this. Why in the world is this still on the shelves at the stores? DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The same thing happened to my Chiweenie (chihuahua/dachshund), Bentley. He spent the night in an emergency vet ($500) and he is still recovering. I’ve emailed my local radio stations and news stations to get the word out and I will be following up on this. I’m making signs to put in the stores around my town next to that awful product to warn people! Spread the word any way you know how. If they aren’t going to take this product sells, then I’m going to make sure no one buys it! Bless all of you and your precious pets!

And to ^GINA: We do pay attention to our pets, you arrogant bitch. I followed the instructions on the box exactly, as I’m sure 90% of the other people did. We would never do anything to intentionally hurt our pets. Is it so much to ask that when we buy something it works? Is it so much to ask that we not have to google every product we purchase to see if there are any adverse effects? This product whether used correctly or not is a terrible product. It doesn’t kill fleas and ticks, it kills your pets. It needs to be taken off the market. But, if you really think that this many people are not following instructions and therefore hurting our pets, then I encourage you to give Sergeant’s Gold Flea and Tick Squeeze a try. Really…go ahead.

I gave my 3 year old Maltese Max The Sergeants Gold (poison)
I spent 20 minutes in the store reading the box trying to make sure it was safe for my dog. Within 1 hour he was panting, vomiting, pacing all night long. In the morning he started licking his paw and his back left leg looked as if he as have leg cramps. I am very up set. I wish I would have saw this web site before I gave that mess to my poor little 10 lb dog. I called my vet the next day and he told he does not recommend using that type of treatment because it is toxic to dog. And to give him a bath right away. Which I did and also gave him 1/2 of a benadryl. He is finally sleeping. I will be call the company and giving them a piece of my mind. I have made sure I told all my friends not to use this poison. Something needs to be done. I also plan to call my local TV station to complain and the BBB. I know the company is aware of all these complants put are ignorning them. I am also going to write the company along with calling them.

yes i used this also, and my cat started shaking and licking her mouth, then i gave her a bath thinking i put to much of this on her ,and she is still shaking and has spit up once she is laying in are bedroom i am keeping a eye on her me and my little girl. I looked the name of this flea stuff and i found this,I want my SUNDAY to be OK thats her name.Thanks for this i am going to put the rest i have in the trash.

I picked up “SERGEANTS GOLD” for my golden retriever today and 10min after the application he was foaming from the mouth. I wasn’t sure of the problem, and then vomit proceeded. Poison control told me to hydrate him best I could, however; my dog wasn’t taking in anything. Continuous drool was to follow and then loss of muscle control. My dog literally could not walk or stand it was so sad to see. Hours passed before he was back to normal function, and just think all this because he licked a spot where sergeants gold was applied!!! I discourage anyone from ever getting this product , and I will forever stay far far away from SERGEANTS GOLD.

My wife put the sergeants”gold” flea poison on our family dog Pixie(that I bought at cvs) at around 11:00am,by 3:00pm of the same day she Pix got sick and vomited over and over again.Pixie started shaking and could not walk in a stright line,we gave Pixie three baths and a children’s benedryl.My poor dog thinks she did something wrong,when in fact it was us that did her wrong.All we can do now is watch her close and if she does not get better soon take her to the vet.Pixie’s family Scott,Kathi and Mac Allan.

We applied Sergeants gold to our two mineture schnausners christmas day and they both started itching and running around legs jumping. Didn’t get the stuff washed off until two days later. They have been bathed three times which hasn’t helped. We’ve been to the vet three times and he has given them prednisone and bendydryl with no help finally he gave them a shot which does’nt seem to help much. We are still giving them bendydryl and spraying them with a topical called relief which helps some. The weather is in the upper twenties here and the dogs would rather be outside. The male buba weighs about eigtheen pnds won’t eat its dog food and jumps around like he has cebral palsy. Sophie won’t eat either. She lays there scratching and her hind legs jumping.
We havn’t slept hardly for aweek because of their licking and jumping around.
Does anyone out there have anything that will help.
If there is a class action law suit goning on let me know I will gladly join.

Hello, my 2 dogs and cat are suffering the same problems as listed. If their is a lawsuit on this please contact me via email. I’ve been searching this product for about 2 hours on the net and reading these posts that go back to early 2008 and cannot believe that they still have this product on the market after all this time! My poor animals are suffering due to negligance. I am horrified at all the animals that are going thru this..
Stacy

My 7lb Chuhuaha received the flea squeeze in mid September of 2009. He made a “sad sound” when I put it on him. My fiance said to leave it on..so I did, for 2 days! Finally, I had enough of watching his suffering. So I bathed him, he seemed a bit relieved… and the next day I bathed him again, and finally, the day after that, a 3rd time. The damage has been done. He pretty much slept for the next 3 weeks. He couldn’t walk very well and was very sore in his sides. We’ve had the little guy to the Vet several times, he’s had cortizone shots and some anti-biotics ~ 3 rounds now…his side pain has subsided but the constant sinus problem are persistant…we have to keep the Vicks machine on most the time to keep his mucus in his nose to a minimum so he can breathe… ~ this comes and goes… It is mid Febuary 2010 so this has been going on 5 months now and there is no let up. No real healing. Damn you Sargents! Make your small print BIGGER! ADD a WARNING and DIRECTIONS of what to do if the animal begins to show signs of shutting down or suffering… How do you people live inside your own heads justifying your product as the cause of such suffering? Not just to our animals but to us! I have told EVERYONE I know and will continue to do so. My dog is in the other room sneezing right now. He will most likely have this the rest of his life. He was a perfectly healthy dog before your poison passed through him.

Came home for lunch Tuesday and decided to go ahead and give my two malti-poo’s their heartworm and flea medications. We were down to 1 tube of FrontLine so I decided to grab something from the store “to fill in” till I could get more Frontline from the vet. Big Mistake! I put the Seargents Gold on my 3 year old Taz, and the Frontline on the other. My wife called me around 6:30 pm and asked me to please come home she thought Taz had been poisened. When I got to the house I found my Taz completely out of his mind. He had thrown up several times and was red eyed and in a hyper state. His resperations were shallow and extremely fast and there was no way to tell you how fast his heart ws beating. My wife, a nurse, meanwhile had called our vet and they had started him on some childrens benadryl we had in the house. My wife called the vet back and let him know about the Seargent’s Gold I had applied at lunch. He told us to immediately wash him in dishwashing liquid 3 or 4 times till we were sure it was off, that he had been poisened. We spent a sleepless night trying to comfort our pet and met the vet at his office the next day. He gave Taz a cortizone shot and told us to continue the benadryl every four hours for the next 24 hrs. He told us we extremely lucky that he was alive and let us know he has seen worse reactions from this product. It has now been 4 days and the itching is slowly going away, but the bright eyed , energetic personality he had is gone for the time being.
I was totally shocked when I found this site. We’re like most folks with pets. They are our family and we will do anything to protect them. I follow instructions to a T when it comes to their safety and there are too many similarities in all the stories I’ve read on this site to questions what the problem is.
I DON’T NEED HARTZ TO HELP ME PAY MY 200.00 VET BILL AND I DON’T WON’T MY MONEY BACK, but I will forever tell any pet owner that will listen how irresponsible Hartz has been on the issues with this product and hope they come to their senses and pull this product from shelves.