Hello, My name is Carl Monday.  I am the investigative reporter for the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.  We are looking for pet owners in the Cleveland area who have witnessed their pets becoming ill, or die from the Hartz Flea Powder or other product. If you have a story to share, and you live [...]

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So, I don’t exactly have a Hartz story but I wanted to express my appreciation for this site. Just today actually we bought flea treatment from the vet for our cats Kito and Percy. The cats managed to lick a bit of the stuff. Kito frothed a bit at the mouth and I totally freaked. [...]

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I have been doing extensive research since both the incident with my cat and finding this website. You might be interested in checking out the U.S. EPA website for more information on this subject: http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/health/petproductseval.html. If you are in Canada, as I am, you can file a report with Health Canada about the adverse reaction [...]

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My Mouse was a healthy 12 year old long haired orange & white cat. I found him dead on August 23, 2011. I also used Hartz drops. He had stopped eating, became lethargic and wasn’t acting like himself and the fleas just got worse.  I wish I had found this website and known that I was really poisoning [...]

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I was almost sick reading this site realizing that my poor cat might have died from my stupidity, but am so glad I did find this. I bought Hartz Ultra Guard One Spot Treatment for cats last night and applied it to my cat. Shortly afterwards, he began trying to lick the area and scratching [...]

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I’ve always had pets, until recently. I work from home, and my fiance works long hours, usually 7 days a week. As a response to my complaints of days and nights spent alone, he picked up a stray kitten that had been lingering outside of our apartment building and gave her to me last night. [...]

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I used the product Hartz Ultra Guard rid flea and tick shampoo on my dog last night.  By the morning, he was acting very different..he was not playful like he usually is and did not even want to go on a walk.  Later during the day, he was very weak.  He has not eaten since, could [...]

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My 1yr old cat became lethargic after few hours of putting hartz guard plus on her, my other cat was fine. By morning she was vomitting and by evening barely walking and wobbling. The next day she lost use of her front legs and walked on her knees, I thought she broke them in a [...]

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I have been  fighting against Hartz and other over the  counter  flea products since 2001 It has only been in the last year and a half a person suing  for damages  in  court had a chance to win the case. But they are now in small clains court. Please if your  pet has been injured  [...]

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last night, 6 pm I put a drop of the flea and tick drop on my 3 year old cat.. i had no idea that it could hurt her.. within 4 hours, she was having convultions, seizures, dialated eyes,, rapid heart beat, drooling.. I had no idea… called the vet.. he said bring her now.. [...]

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Today I bought a Sargeant’s topical flea treatment for my pooch, a beautiful former street dog from Taiwan. Within an hour he was starting to exhibit some mild symptoms that so many of the users of this site have experienced, whimpering and clearly uncomfortable and I went to the web to see if this reaction [...]

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I used Hartz Ultra Flea and Tick on my cat Smokey, with in hours she was lethargic sick and listless, we watched her for a day, called the vet the next morning.  When we got to the vet and showed her what we had used they said they had pets die in the office after [...]

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I made the horrible mistake of putting the Hartz flea drops on two of my cats. Cali had the reaction to the drops first. I woke up one morning to her shaking. She wouldn’t drink anything or eat, some of the time she wouldn’t even sit down. She would just stand in one spot and [...]

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I used Hartz ultra gurad pro flea and tick drops on my cat Jett and it made her very sick. We put the drops on her on Sunday and noticed her going downhill over the next couple of days. By Wednesday she really wasn’t acting like herself so I called the vet. They said that [...]

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I recently used Ultraguard Onespot Flea & Egg Treatment by HARTZ. It says it’s for cats and kittens.My kitten immediately swung her head around and began licking at it incessantly. Kittens can reach around and lick between their shoulder blades.  Within 2 hours of applying it my 12 week kitten began to curl up and roll all [...]

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I remember getting him 12 and a half years ago in a pet farm for my bday when I turned 5, he was the perfect dachshund. And then I thought of a name we came up with poo poo it was short and sweet and Wharton do you expect I was 5 and the name [...]

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WOW, not even sure where to start now. We purchased an 8oz container of Hartz Precision Nutrition Milk replacer for Kittens from Wal-mart for my 4 week old kitten. We fed her 1 and 1/2 oz’s. With in 10 min of drinking this she was vomoting, dehydrated, sleeping (not her), not meowing (really not her, [...]

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I’m happy to find this website, after two years of stabbing regret. A week before I began my senior year of high school, my mom called to tell me that the cat we’d moved from my house into her apartment had become horribly flea infested. Chihiro was seven years old and was a beautiful long-haired [...]

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THe  safest way to get  fleas off a cat or kitten is to use a flea comb. You  simply  comb the  cat  the  fleas get on the  comb and  all you  need to  do is  have a  bowl of soapy water near by if you  put the  comb in the  soapy water the  fleas drown as [...]

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We had a 10 year old Sheltie who was full of life.  It amazed me that he could go all day.  We’ve been battling fleas for a few months.  When we ran out of Advantix, I decided to pick up some Hartz drops from Wal-Mart.  I thought they would work the same and liked the [...]

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We had a similar incident with this product.Applied as directed,with a few hours our cat was drooling ,very twitchy,looked like something out of a scary movie.when we took her to the vet the said DO NOT use Seargants.the cat needed saline and steriods and was there for 6 hrs,were just glad she made it considering [...]

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my cat licked a lot of s-methoprene (Hartz ultra guard one spot) treatment off his back about 3 hrs ago. I called Hartz who said he will be fine, and they test the product for ingestion. They told me to feed him tuna water, which he drank (about a 1/3 cup) or to feed him [...]

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I have a 2yr old cat named Buster that I rescued when he was only 4wks old he is a huge part in my family we love him with all our hearts. A few weeks ago I purchased the Hartz Ultra Guard Pro for Buster because the house we moved into had a stray that [...]

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Here I was feeling guilty, because I thought it was my fault!  I had a beautiful American Siamese that was barely 3 years old.  Rescued from a animal shelter at 18 months.  And I really didn’t rescue him, I killed him!  I was putting Hartz flea control on him, I cry as I type this [...]

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Hello i had a 6 week old kitty and she was doing fine she would play,cuddle,sleep,eat and what i could see was very healthy..i gave her a bath with hartz grooming shampoo and the next day she was not the same and later that night started to wobble and could not walk we brought her [...]

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hey all.  i stumbled across this syte after googling info on hartz products. and boy am I did. I have a 4 year old boxer named meeka. She’s the kind of dog that is still a pup at heart. She loves to play and be loved. We moved into a builing that has really bad [...]

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We had 3 cats and 1 dog at our house and now we just have 1 cat and 1 dog. Our story is very sad and no one else needs to go through it. Yesterday we noticed a flea on one of our russian blues, we went to buy some flea controll, Hartz was the [...]

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