Hello, My name is Marlena and I have a two year old Russian Blue named Charlotte. I got her just over five months ago. About three months after I got her my mother got her a Hartz flea collar. She was doing great before I put the flea collar on her then about a couple [...]

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My puppy is about 10 months old and I bought the flea and tick ultra medication to prevent fleas from getting on him. We recently moved into a house that had a previous dog that had fleas so I just wanted to make sure that my puppy didn’t get fleas from this. So when I [...]

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Save your money!  I bought a flea and tick collar for my 5 year old boston terrier when he went to visit my in-laws.  I picked him up last night, after 3 days there (and 4 days WITH the collar on) to my surprise HE HAS FLEAS!  I have now spent $110 to treat him [...]

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I wish I would have done more research. My kitty is 10 months old. I run a small animal recue from my home. So when I noticed a flea I flipped and got the flea drops. I applyed them to my 2 dogs and the my cat. I applied a cat formula to my kitty. [...]

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First of all I find it outrageous that there have been this many complaints and yet the products are on the shelves. My story starts long before this site was even founded. I, like most of the other people on here, went grocery shopping a local supermarket and decided to pick up some HARTZ flea [...]

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My cat was born in my room, she was the first one to come into the world out of 5. She’s been perfectly healthy since day one. The other night I noticed fleas on her, so we picked up Hartz Flea and Tick from the local WalMart. The next morning I woke up and went [...]

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If you have used any type of over the counter spot on flea product  and notice your pet acting differently and you can not immediately take your  pet to a vet   If you notice you’re pet starting to act differently anywhere from minutes to a few hours. Immediately give your pet a through bath. Avoid extremes in [...]

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I have been using Hartz products since I got my dog in August 2010 and have had NO problems with them.  The products I have been using are as follows:  Hartz Groomer’s Best Waterless Shampoo and Hartz Ultra Guard Flea & Tick Drops.  I have read many posts from this website claiming that this product [...]

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I have 3 cats, all of mature ages. They have recently become infested with fleas, so I went to the super-market last friday looking for flea drops for them. I found Hartz UltraGuard Onespot for eggs and flea larvae, and it was on sale, and I figured since it was sold in a large super [...]

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This summer, U.S. veterinarians will begin prescribing a brand new spot-on flea and tick preventive from Novartis Animal Health. The product for dogs is called Parastar and the cat product is EasySpot. The active ingredient in these products is fipronil, an adult flea insecticide. Per Veterinary Practice News: “The Novartis family of parasiticides is defined [...]

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Dear Victims, Please take a moment to visit the OFFICIAL HartzVictims.org Facebook page below. And also, please make sure to click on “Like” http://www.facebook.com/pages/HartzVictimsorg/193218094069224. I am currently working on building a Facebook app and deeper Facebook integration with the site. I’m doing the best I can to continue on in this long, gruesome battle and [...]

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i used hartz ultra guard on my 14 year old cat, foxglove topaz decker. i’ve used it before and noticed her acting a little lethargic. this time fleas were really bad so i used more than previously. i sprayed her on tuesday night. i called her in the next morning . she didn’t come. not even [...]

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Yesterday I saw fleas on one of my five month old kittens so I went to the store and bought Hartz flea and tick drops for both of them. After them struggling like never before when applying the drops, they immediately starting meowing in pain, scratching like crazy and licking the solution. After that they [...]

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On Tues, July 12th, 2011 I had purchased HARTZ Ultraguard Plus- Flea and Tick Drops and applied the one tube to my 10 month old Female Chihuahua. In between the shoulder blades where she was unable to lick the solution. Within 24 hours her eyes and face became swollen. Within 36 hours these big hives/welts [...]

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This story will be a drop in the bucket it seems, but it also demonstrates the ongoing problem. I have 5-year-old, mix breed, large dog.  He has had fleas once in the past.  I usually give him Advantix treatments for fleas and ticks and had good results.  I got into a financial pinch and he [...]

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Hi everyone we adopted our dog Wilson from an animal shelter two weeks ago.  The owner had stated that during Father’s Day weekend he had had two seizures but then added his previous owners had put expired frontline on him and it was too high of a dosage.  The vet said he shouldn’t have any [...]

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The EPA is asking for public input and taking comments concerning the use of propoxur in pet products. NRDC Scientist Miriam Rotkin-Ellman recently wrote a great piece about this update which you can see here. Included in her blog are instructions for how to post comments to the EPA. The NRDC also has put up [...]

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Your products killed 3 beloved members of our family. I am disgusted that these products are even allowed on the shelves. The irresponsibility of this company’s products took away 3, almost 4 of our best friends forever. Our cats had no medical issues, and were perfectly healthy and happy cats before administering your products. We [...]

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About three years ago we bought our cat the hartz flea collar unaware of how awful of an idea that was. So it worked great for about a week we saw fleas dying and the cat seemed happy about that. Yet, the next week the cat became slightly ill vomiting only few times, and extremely [...]

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I am disgusted that these products are even allowed on the shelves. We suspected that the sudden and untimely death of one of our beloved family cats had something to do with the Hartz vitamins that we had bought only 3 days before her decline. What we bought with the thought of improving our cats’ [...]

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My cat had a flea coller and now its not eating its eye lids are messed up plus the cat is not resopnding. I just wanted to know what’s wrong?

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Yesterday I put Seargents Flea and Tick drops onto my 9 month Havenese. He is now in a veterinarian emergency hospital hooked up to an IV and staying overnight! He did not become symptomatic until about 20 hours after application. Then he began to whine, excessively throwing up, drooling until he soaked his bed & [...]

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I used Hartz Blockade on my dog years ago by Hartz and came home the next day and he was almost dead. The vet saved him but he ended up with liver disease, peritonitis and lost his eyesight! The eyesight came overnight so he was not prepared like with cataracts where they can adjust over [...]

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I used Hartz Ultra Guard flea and tick spray on my dog earlier today and the past few hours he has been acting very weird and just staring at me and not eating and drooling on the floor. When I tried to look in his mouth there was foam there. I just found this site [...]

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I used the Hartz products several times, and each time with horrible results. Thank God I have never had a pet die. Each time I used the product on my dogs, they would become very lethargic and always seemed to end up scratching so much more after applying the product than they ever did before. [...]

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I just bought the Hartz flea and ticks Shampoo for my lab. Being the skeptic I am I researched the products information and stumbled upon this site. My black lab Sophie is afflicted by vicious blood-sucking fleas. Can Anyone reccomend a flea shampoo for labs?

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From our friend James over at BioSpotVictims.org: The NRDC has submitted another petition to the EPA to ban toxic flea collars and the EPA wants to hear what the public has to say about it. Here’s an article from the NRDC regarding it: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mrotkinellman/epa_needs_to_hear_from_you_get.html Comments must be submitted to the EPA by July 15, 2011. [...]

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About 3 weeks ago my wife, wanting to save some money decided to buy and use the Hartz flea and tick shampoo and flea and tick application. That night he had a seizure. He had one the next night as well. We took him to the vet and spent alot of money on tests. Nothing [...]

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New Jersey Attorney Gray Graifman Receives Favorable Decisions in Spot-On Pesticide Class Actions July 07, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ — Plaintiff’s class action lawyer Gary S. Graifman, a partner with the firm Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman, was part of a team of plaintiffs’ counsel who secured favorable decisions in four class actions involving multiple manufacturers of spot-on [...]

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I noticed my dog was itching a little and uncomfortable from fleas. I bought the hartz flea drops that night and when i let him out of the kennel in the morning he looked tired and his face was gaunt. Later in the day he developed a rash on his stomach and began throwing up [...]

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