Comments on: DANGER!!! Sergeants Gold Flea and Tick Squeeze-On

By: Cindi Mei

Cindi Mei — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:20:20 +0000

If any thing happens to my adult Boston Terrier I will feel so bad. I am just now looking at the reviews after I applied the product. It’s been a few hours now. She appears fine tho, I noticed some weird debris in her coat above where the solution was applied. I will stay in touch.

By: viv szabo

viv szabo — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:31:21 +0000

wow – i left a comment on this thread in april 2009. i can’t believe that more than 2 years later, it’s still story after story of the misery hartz’ products cause. there’s a group on facebook ‘hartz hurts’ that i just joined. i know it’s not much, but i figured that i’d at least be able to warn my facebook friends & get them to join, too.

By: Richard Stretton

Richard Stretton — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:00:49 +0000

I’m happy to help create a group on Facebook to try and get this poison off the shelves. If I could get a little help that would be awesome.

Email me rittings@gmail.com (you can find me on facebook with that email too)

By: Ginger Gaskins-Weiss

Ginger Gaskins-Weiss — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:18:14 +0000

On Thursday, October 20, 2011, after bathing and drying my 65lb English Bulldog, Aggie, I applied Seageant’s Gold Flea & Tick Squeeze-On Medicine. Within minutes, Aggie was twitching, panting, and horribly restless. I thought at first it was just her reacting to something different being on her coat, but after 45 min. I realized that she was in agony. I wiped the excess (its very oily) off with a paper towel. That night she was so restless that neither one of us got any sleep. She was wimpering, panting, and twitching. On Friday morning, my husband bathed her again, and I bathed her again on Friday evening. She continued to twitch and began hallucinating by biting in the air and licking her lips/nose. Moreover, her mobility is troublesome. When touched on her back/neck area, she loses balance and falls to the floor, like if someone was hit in their knee with one of those rubber hammers at the doctor’s office. She doesn’t seem to be in pain but she is not herself at all. My husband gave her a benedryl and she slept through the night. Today, 10/22/2011, the side effects of hallucinations and licking lips/nose has disappeared but the mobility issue is worse. We just gave her a second dose (w/in 24 hrs.) of benedryl and she is sleeping peacefully. She is eating and drinking, and using the bathroom. The lack of mobility is sad and breaks my heart! I HATE SERGEANT’S GOLD! I have posted to my Facebook page this incident and asked everyone of my 600 friends to share Aggie’s story. I have filed a complied with Consumer Affairs and I pray to God that it is ripped from the shelves and they are made to pay dearly for what they have done to our furry family members!

By: Richard Stretton

Richard Stretton — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:46:04 +0000

Tammy any Dollar General sell it – but be warned it IS poison. My wife and I just applied it to our Yorkie-poo puppy and within an hour she became lethargic… I then googled because I was suspicious about the volume for a very high demographic of “under 33 lbs”. That covers a wide variety of sizes and our Yorkie-poo is barely 2lbs!! Too ambiguous for me…

Believe me if our little baby is poorly from this they feel the wrath of an angry Englishman in Tennessee!!

Thanks for all the info guys and gals… I feel a facebook campaign!!

By: mrhamilton2u

mrhamilton2u — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:37:36 +0000

Cant believe it, dogs are sick.
Sorry I didnt surf the net before buying this poison. This stuff is poison.MAKE NO MISTAKE

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Under the doctrine of caveat emptor, the buyer could not recover from the seller for defects on the property that rendered the property unfit for ordinary purposes. The only exception was if the seller actively concealed latent defects or otherwise made material misrepresentations amounting to fraud.

Before statutory law, the buyer had no warranty of the quality of goods. In many jurisdictions now, the law requires that goods must be of “merchantable quality”. However, this implied warranty can be difficult to enforce and may not apply to all products. Hence, buyers are still advised to be cautious.

In addition to the quality of the merchandise, this phrase also applies to the return policy. In most jurisdictions, there is no legal requirement for the vendor to provide a refund or exchange. In many cases, the vendor will not provide a refund but will provide a credit. Most stores require proof of purchase and impose time limits on exchanges or refunds. However, some larger chain stores will do exchanges or refunds at any time, with or without proof of purchase, although they usually require a form of picture ID and place quantity or dollar limitations on such returns.

With little or no concern for you or your pet

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Please GIVE consideration when purchasing for any loved ones
There are wolves in sheeps clothing.

MRHAMILTON2U

By: tammy w.

tammy w. — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:13:27 +0000

I can’t believe what i am reading here about the sergeants gold flea & tick squeeze on for dogs. I myself have used it on my beloved 13 year old border collie and it worked great killed all the fleas etc she had no adverse reactions at all to it.as a matter of fact i have been searching for somewhere to buy it because nothing else i have used has helped her,some of the other products did bother her and seemed to burn her and had to be washed off immediately. it seems your campaign to get it out of stores has worked as i cannot find it anywhere and am not sure now if i would use it if i did. i have tried over 20 other products in 2 years and my poor baby still suffers from fleas to the point that she is almost always scratching. IM SO CONFUSSED NOW,DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL HELP HER SAFELY. ANY IDEAS OR HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.THANKS FOR THE WARNINGS

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:34:38 +0000

I sure wish I had known of this site before I applied the Sargeants Gold squeeze tubes…I have an 8 pound Yorkie that I gave this to yesterday….we brought a new dog in the house who apparantley had a few fleas and spread them to our lil Yorkie…I used this squeeze tube an almost instantly she was coughing and then just went nuts – crazy running around the house and couldn’t be still and panting and then her legs would start twitching. We gave her multiple baths and washed it off and took her to the vet. Thank God she hadn’t sufferred seizures or anything and vet said she was healthy..just needed to run its course out of her body – a little benadryl for the itchy and respiratory reaction and TONS of rest..and she’ll be ok. Call your vet before giving your animal ANY medication!!!

By: lsutiger1989

lsutiger1989 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:01:40 +0000

I hope your cat doesn’t have long-term side effects. Unfortunately for me I had no knowledge of this site or of the harmful side effects of using hartz products. I applied some flea medication to my cat and she had seizures from that point on until she dies about 7 years later. She was a very loving and affectionate cat but the hartz definitely did a number on her neurological with all the seizures she had (she had seizures from day 1 of “treatment” to the day she died). Even after she died, I knew it was from the “medication” but I thought i was alone or that this was some freak reaction. This was about 12ish years ago and it breaks my heart to read some of these stories and know that i could have stopped it if i just would have done some research. It feels like I killed my cat From others posts I have seen it seams that washing your cat with dawn dish soap as well as a vet visit seems to be the most effective method of treatment, the rest your just have to pray for a good outcome.

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:02:26 +0000

I applied this poison to my two cats last Sunday after attempting the natural route for 2 weeks. My one cat had shown skin irritation to numerous natural products so I erroneously thought that this product was similar to Frontline or Revolution, both of which my cats had had before with no adverse reactions. Needless to say, I was very wrong. I’d bathed my cats with natural flea shampoo immediately prior to applying this !#@# on Sunday afternoon which is why I think I saw a delayed reaction. The next afternoon, I found my male cat lying in a corner, very disoriented & fatigued. He seemed unresponsive to me & was very uncomfortable when I touched his back, twitching in response with his spine trembling. I found this site & washed both cats with what I had available: the natural flea shampoo along with Seventh Generation dish detergent. The affected cat immediately came around behaviorly, no longer hiding & responding to me like he usually does. I finally washed them both again with Dawn on Wednesday afternoon after speaking with my vet. I should add that my affected cat is an orange tiger-striped cat; I’ve been informed that due to recessive genes, orange cats may be more prone to reactions to vaccines, chemical treatments, etc.

A week later, he seems much better than he was last Monday afternoon. However, there are a couple of things that are concerning me & I’m hoping someone on this site will be able to share whether or not I should fear long-term effects. Whenever I pet my cat on his back, especially near the base of his spine, he continues to be uncomfortable & twitches while simultaneously sticking out his tongue. It’s not as pronounced as it was before but it’s still there. In addition, he seems more fatigued than usual. MY QUESTION IS WHETHER OTHER VICTIMS HAVE EXPERIENCED LONG-TERM NEUROLOGICAL SIDE EFFECTS OR WHETHER THEY EVENTUALLY RETURN BACK TO THEIR NORMAL, HEALTHY SELVES? I sincerely hope for my own & others’ sake that we can learn from this experience without having to pay the consequences for the rest of our pets’ lives.

By: ptk

ptk — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:07:42 +0000

Yup – should have checked for internet info BEFORE poisoning my beautiful hunting dog with the Sergeants Gold Sh*t. pacing, flinching, trying to bite at her tail base and drooling. have washed her twice but hasn’t solved the problem. Don’t use this crap. your pet will thank you.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:21:50 +0000

I feel sorry for all of you. Something none of you seem to realize is your animals were all displaying symptoms of an allergic reaction and not poisoning. That is why you are suppose to watch the animal closely for the first couple hours after you apply flea treatments. There are warnings on the packages. Your pets could have had the same reaction to any brand. I’ve used this brand for years with no problem, but I had an experience which mirrors your stories. My cat wasn’t reacting to a flea treatment though. He is very allergic to tuna. He had the same red rash, trouble breathing, lethargy, foaming at the mouth, vomiting, everything your pets went through. Out of the hundreds of thousands of flea drops used, you have to expect a couple hundred pets to have reactions. If you look at other pet products, even the food you use, you will find the same horror stories about them too.

By: Chantel

Chantel — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:10:50 +0000

I AM SO PISSED OFF I GAVE THIS TO MY YORKIE AND A COUPLE HOURS LATER HE IS VOMITTING AND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. He is like my child I can not believe they sell this in the stores. I read all of the post and went to rite aid to buy benadryl immediately. He seems better but will be watching him closely.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:07:53 +0000

I wish I had seen this site first. I was shopping with my mom yesterday and bought this product. She said that it has been around for a long time. So I stupidly felt ok. I put it on my 2 beagles and they have had it on for over 24 hours. Their coats are greasy where I applied it but they have had no reaction yet and are behaving just as they normaly do. I’ll have to keep a close eye on them. I am so glad I just bought the one box. Thanks for all the info and hope all your pets are ok.

By: Kym

Kym — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:38:00 +0000

I am so sorry for what happened to all your pets.

Luckily I do research before I use anything and check on reviews. I actually could not find any at first and I thought that was strange. So I kept on trying I almost went out to buy it when I came upon this website. At first I thought maybe by now they fixed what was wrong with the product. Now that I see this has been happening for a few years I sure will not be using it on my Mimi… She is a 1 year old kitty and I definitely will use something else. Sorry this happened to your pets but you are saving the lives of other pets.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:53:46 +0000

Please contact me if you want to join in a class action suit against Sergeants. Our kitty Fin has been in the hospital for 4 days now & we still don’t know if he is going to make it. Please email me at Janrussell6@hotmail.com Thank you

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:29:51 +0000

I am so angry! My husband gave our small shitzu a dose of this seargents flea & tick (Gold) about an hour ago and he is going bananas, he is crying, panting and running around the house. We cannot console him and after reading all of your entries I fear we have just unknowingly poisoned our littlest family member.

By: Daniella

Daniella — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:08:17 +0000

I had given this stupid medication to my two dogs Jake 3yrs old beautiful german-shepherd mix , and Elwood 2 yr old adorable chihuahua. Each dog had a different reaction. Elwood was twitching, tail tucked in, shivering, irritated, and squealing after a good 3 hours had passed from giving Sargeant to the dogs. I was sooo worried and scared, but all I wanted was just something to get rid of the fleas without spending over the top money. Jake’s reaction was very subtle, quiet , but EXTREMELY itching non-stop. My parents saw their reaction too, and were concerned. They said that if we were to take them to the vet both of the dogs would cost in total probably around $800 (maybe $1000) for their visit. So all we had to do was monitor them at ALL times, bath them constantly and give them all the love. Two days have passed and everything is OK….One thing sure, Sargeants Gold Flea Treatment needs to immediately get off of the shelves in stores before any other dog becomes a victim to this menacing evil product. <3 Daniella Hope

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:09:41 +0000

Hi my name Is Donna

Last night I got some sergeant’s flea med and put it on my cat and the next moring
my cat was very sick and now is in the vit frighting for her life the vit donthold much hope for the cat she has now had four seagers and now is at my vits house being under a 24 hour watch

By: RAWR

RAWR — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:06:38 +0000

im terrified. i just put some seargents on my two loves.( my yorkies) my youngest is running around scratching , my oldest is whimpering,restless,and scratching. how could they do this to me? i have my dogs going crazy and we dont have money for the vet . my mom just went to go buy benadryl. i hope it works. i took them three baths. they calmed down a little.im gunna do something bout this. this is INSANE!

By: Abi

Abi — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:16:38 +0000

I am appalled by this! I put the Sergeant’s flea and tick medication on my lil’ 9lb Pomeranian Roco yesterday before going to work because I saw him itching and had run out of Frontline and had this lying around and assumed it was safe.

When I got home from work 9 hours later my poor lil’ dog’s eyes were so watery and he was just acting spastic and really uncomfortable no matter what I did or he did. I just thought maybe one of his anal glands was infected and he was itchy and uncomfortable because he has had issues with that in the past. So I tried to just go to bed and relax, but he was all over the bed and was clearly irritated and uncomfortable, I tried to pet him and make him comfortable, but nothing was working so I gave him a bath which gave him releif for a few minutes, but then was back to jerking and appeared to be almost have seizures. I called the emergency vet and she told me the flea medication could be toxic and to bathe him with dish soap which I did 5 times and gave him 1/2 a 25mg Benadryl and still no luck, so I decided to look up the brand and symptoms on the internet and was shocked.

I immediately called the emergency vet and told her what I found online about Sergeant’s flea & tick stuff and she said not to panic and I started crying hysterically and told her I was bringing my dog in.

They said they see this often where people run out of Frontline and buy some cheap stuff like this at the store and then end up at the vet. They turned the Sergeant’s box over and showed me the ingredient and said the chemical’s contained in them for a 9lb dog is enough for cattle! I couldn’t believe it. They gave Roco 2 shots – 1 to sedate him and give him some relief and then 1 to make him stop itching, but it would take 2 hours to kick in.

I brought Roco home and laid in bed while he would pass out for a minute, jump up and run around the bed and then sit on me and jerk and whine and cry for 2 hours before he finally fell asleep. I literally had to check his heartbeat when I woke up to make sure he was alive.

This was devastating and as everyone else has said, I too am going to call and insist the makers of this horrible toxic, dog killing product take it off the shelves and also pay my vet bill.

I will be very careful what I put on my baby again! Thanks for reading and please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you are reading this before it’s too late.

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:33:33 +0000

I wish i read these letters before i bought sereants flea and tick for dogs! my poor dog, has been up all night crying and scratching from this flea med. Ive been bathing her like crazy, and if she doesnt seem better by morning im taking her to the vet. she can hardly walk! Im sooo very worried!

By: Maggie's Mommy

Maggie's Mommy — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:55:36 +0000

I feel awful. I just poisoned my baby. Two baths later and a bunch of peanut butter. . she isn’t foaming at the mouth anymore, but she is still irritated enough to scratch.

I wish I would have found this site earlier. . I just can’t believe I didn’t know!

Looking at the posts, it’s hard to believe that this has gone on for YEARS and nothing has been done to eliminate this issue.

We will never have another Hartz product in the house again!

By: Ashley Small

Ashley Small — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:36:06 +0000

Wow, I’ve read alot of these comments and I am truly glad that I have found this website. I got online and typed in “Sergeant’s Gold” to find a correct dosage for my pets. Luckily, I found this site first. It seems like these side effects are a definate expectation if using any of the flea and tick products, but of course the company doesn’t state that fact on the box or even on their website. I am truly sorry that these awful side effects hurt all of your pets, but thank you to all who posted your sad stories, it just may have saved my 4 pets….

By: ROWENA

ROWENA — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:57:59 +0000

I’m am SO lucky that my 9 lb maltese, Louis, is okay now. I put sergeant’s gold flea and tick squeeze-on on him late last night when I found that he had fleas and it was too late to go to the vet. I purchased this at the grocery store and unknowingly poisoned him! I applied as directed and made sure that he would not be able to lick off any of the product. It was about 8:00pm when I put on the squeeze on. Around 9:30 he started crazily panting as if he went running and playing outside vigorously for a few hours! He wouldn’t eat or drink water, he wouldn’t even take a treat!!! I was really nervous and he kept me up most of the night. When he was taken our for a late night walk, he wobbled around as if there was something wrong with his joints and also did not relieve himself. Right before the vet’s office opened, I did some research on the product. There were SO MANY complaints and not one good review on it. Many people had to take their pets to the emergency vet! I’m lucky that Louis did not have extreme severe effects. I bathed him in dawn soap first and did a light coat of his usual shampoo so that his skin didn’t dry too much. He was very lethargic throughout the day. He took a short nap since he didn’t sleep through the night before. He seems to be getting better. I’m lucky I did research right when symptoms were occurring before it was too late. I also a purchased a spray by sergeants that I will be returning. Good thing I haven’t used it yet.

Isn’t there a way to get this product off the market if there are so many terrible cases out there? I am going to speak with the manager of the grocery store I went to so that they can remove it off their shelves. This is ridiculous. Our pets suffer because of this terrible company…

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:37:40 +0000

Thank God I read this! I bought Sergeants’s Gold Flea and Tick for small cats and kittens. I applied it to my 10 week old kitten and actually recommended it to a friend for his cat! My only complaint was it is a week after I applied it and I’m sleeping in a bed of fleas again. I called Sergeant’s and gave them the product number and they said it was expired. I did some research to see how often this happened and I found this site. Boy am I glad that it was expired. I don’t care about the extra money anymore (the vet bill will cost more) I’m getting Frontline for my kitten. Thank you everyone for voicing your stories! You have saved my little kitten, and you have saved me from being heartbroken while my cat is in pain.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:26:42 +0000

Our 17 week old Maltese, Berkeley, is having similar symptoms as well. We’re going through it right now. About 2 hours after applying Sergeant’s Gold Flea and Tick product Berkeley was acting strange and wandering around throughout the house before he threw up three times.

We called the 800 number and they suggested Dawn soap with Vitamin E oil. We also called the local emergency vet, who suggested that we watch out for shaking and vomiting, but said that as long as we washed him the worst was probably over.

When I asked the vet if they got calls in for this product often, she replied, “Yes, we’ve gotten quite a few calls for the same issue”.

I find it ridiculous that there aren’t even any warnings of side effects on the box, these kinds of products shouldn’t be on the selves.

Hopefully Berkeley will back to his old self in no time, but obviously I’m boycotting ANY and ALL of Sergeant’s products.

By: zeke

zeke — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:26:48 +0000

OMG!!!!!!! Wish i would have seen this sooner!!!! We have a 9month old Cock a poo and we gave him some of this about 7 hours ago. Getting ready to go to the vet. Im afraid he has had a stroke on me.

By: Melissa Ferguson

Melissa Ferguson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:31:31 +0000

Oh my god i’m so upset. My little Lexie is laying over here restless contiuning vomiting and want eat or drink looks so weak. we applied the sargents 2 days ago she acted a little sick yesterday we just thought it was from the heat. and started in the early am this morning she was vomiting and wetted herself, we bathed her 3 times today and gave her a benadryl and gonna give another one before we go to bed. we cant afford a vet visit im just praying my baby makes it. i cant stop crying. please if anyone can help please email me at missysbabypreston@yahoo.com…
p.s.
we have to force benadryl down her throat and water bc we dont want her to dry please someone help. weve call the 800 # and they said they’ll remburst our vet bill but damn we cant afford it. PLEASE EVERYONE PRAY FOR OUR BABY… LEXIE LEIGH FERGUSON 7 MONTHS OLD. WEIGHS 20 POUNDS!

By: sanpick

sanpick — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:20:58 +0000

I am so thankful that both of my toy poodles are still alive. Last Sunday 7-11-10 I purchased a package of Sargents Gold flea and tick med. It didn’t take long before my little ones started acting like their skin was burning and itching. I really didn’t know what to do except give them a bath and get as much of it washed as possible. That night I was up all night with both dogs, Abbey my little girl was the worst. I thought she was going to die before the night was over. I kept a cool wash cloth on her back all night. They were both coughing and scratching and crying all night long. Andy the male finally went to sleep. Abbey seemed a little better the next day but still in aot of pain and somewhat incoherent and she was also nipping at my clothes. I went to the rite aid and purchased a bottle of bactine.I also bought some childrens benadryl that helped with the allergic reaction??? She wouldn’t let me put the bactine on only if I put the wash cloth on first and then poured it on top of the cloth. It is Sunday the 18th and finally she is starting to act normal and maybe I can get her to trust me again. Everytime I start to touch her back she jumps around to see what I am doing. Shame on you Sargents.These helpless animals trust us to do what is best, I almost lost(killed) one of my best friends because of your poison. You’ll never get another penny of my money. God put these little ones here for us to love and take care of. Shame on you