Milo is at the vet as I type. I found him at 1 am this morning lethargic and vomiting. When he tried to get up and walk his back legs wouldn’t hold him up. I took him to the vet as soon as they opened and the vet tech who met me at the door immediately snipped off his collar and started asking questions. His body temp was extremely low and his gums were pale. All of these were signs of poisoning. When the vet called me at 9:51am this morning she had him on an IV catheter and was going to pull bloodwork for CBC/Chem Panel. She called me back at 10:40am and said that she thought I had brought him in just in time. His kidneys and liver were in beginning stages of failure and he was unable to urinate. He now has a urinary catheter in as well as an IV and will have to stay there atleast until Sat…and that’s only as long as he can urinate tomorrow after the catheter comes out. I had only put on the Hartz Plus Flea Collar a little over a week ago and had no idea that I was slowly killing my kitty. I’ve never had an issue w/any flea collars, topicals, sprays, powders, etc before.
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December 9th, 2011 @8:31 am
We constantly preach to people to NOT use flea collars. They kill alot of animals b/c you are putting that thing so close to where they breath. Some people even double up with the collar and flea meds. You will certainly kill your animal doing this. I hope kitty is okay and that people learn from this
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