My husband and I noticed one of our cats scratching, so we decided to order biospot since it was said to be the same as frontline.  Well after we applied it to our 10 cats, I came home the next day to find our 5yro ragamuffin seizing on the bed.  I rushed him to the [...]

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Applied Hartz product and within 2 hours 13 year old Border Collie experienced diarreha and vomiting; lasted for 12 hours.  Thank you for your website that gave me an idea of what his problem could have been!

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Sadly I did not know how severe the Hartz products are and that they can poison animals.  I have a 2 1/2 year old female hungarian mudi which is approx 45 lbs, beautiful black fur with massive curls around her ears and down her back with a really thick fluffy and long tail.  Then I [...]

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I once worked for a leading official in the FDA’s Center for Veterinary medicine.  She said that pets are not their priority.  Food animals are.  That is why no action is taken against this horrid company.  We should be lobbying the Government and filling the media with these stories.  There is no one to advocate [...]

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I just want every one to be aware that Sergeants flea and tick treatment is absolutely the most aweful product put on the sheves for "dogs". I put this medication on my dog last night and he is currently in the hospital with seizures and a serious allergic reaction to this product. The vet said [...]

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My cat, Mickey, started to get a bald spot on his back. The bald spot was also very red and looked painful. We didn’t know why so we took him to the vet. The vet warned us against ever using Hartz again. We immediately gave Mickey a bath, and, soon after, Mickey’s hair started to grow back. [...]

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I am very upset by everything I am reading….How is it possible for a company to continue to sell products that are reported to cause so much death and or sickness. I have several pets and I have never used Hartz until a week ago when my children picked up a bottle of shampoo from [...]

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My dog was shampooed w/ Hartz Aromethary Invigorating shampoo. When he was rinsed, we noticed he couldn’t stop blinking. The next morning, one eye remained affected. The vet said that his entire corneal area had been affected and was damaged. He was given four separate eye drops and pain meds. A follow-up visit revealed that [...]

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My 5 month old boxer woke up this morning covered in hives. I quickly did an online search to see if she could have some benedryl to calm the hives. I came across this site from a google search. Is it some strange co-incidence that yesterday I bathed her in Hartz flea and tick shampoo? [...]

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My daughters cat had a flea problem, and I thought that instead of going to the vets and being told to get a flea srpay or drops, I would just get some at the local store. I picked up a srpay bottle of the 3 in 1 spray, and we put it on him according [...]

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I sprayed my stairway, my couch, two chairs, and my bed with Hartz Flea Spray. Then I went to work. 10 hours later I came home and didn’t think anything about the smell. I assumed after 10 hours, it was safe to sit on the couch and lie on the bed. It has been 23 [...]

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When our Jade (she was a rescue we had gotten at 6 weeks) was just about a year old, we lived in a apt. complex in San Jose that had a pond and therefore had ducks which in turn meant FLEAS. Of course our pug brought them into the apartment and they were BAD. As [...]

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I had been using Hartz shampoo on my dogs for months always wondering why they itch so much and are continyously biting themselves all over. After doing some reasearch about my chihuahua’s rash that first started from a Hartz flea collar, and then got SERIOUS from the Hartz Flea and Tick Shampoo with Oatmeal, now [...]

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Hi,My name is Julie and I have been breeding Toy Fox Terriers for the last few years. I have been a dog owner for the last 12 years and have always used Hartz shampoo with no problems. I have a litter of 8 wk old pups and gave them their first bath with shampoo this [...]

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My girlfriend and I recently adopted a cat from a shelter, and purchased a Hartz flea collar (the 2-in-1 brand) for it. The collar did not seem to harm the cat but gave me and my girlfriend (who live with the cat) horrible rashes. We checked with our doctors and with the vet, and they [...]

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Interesting I came across this, I recently applied an over the counter flea med on my cat (not Hartz) and immediatly after she became very lethargic and depressed, she would twitch/shake her back legs and was just completly void of any emotion…I am concerned given the other posts and I don’t think I will ever [...]

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I have just recently put Sergeants PreTect Squeeze on flea control for cats and kittens on my cat and the strangest thing happened, about 5 minutes after putting it on the cat he started to jump and run around, then he started to foam at the mouth, so immediately I gave him a bath to [...]

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A beautiful bold eyed kitten was born May/2007. Come to find out it was a boy and I named him Ozzy. Ozzy was the first pet that I ever got REALLY* attached to. He was so cute and lively in his many years of being a (Indoor) cat. Always running around the house with so [...]

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Hello, I just wanted to say that your website has opened my eyes! I applied Seargeants gold flea and tick squeeze-on, on my two boston terriers, Rocky and Daisy, tonight and now they are sitting in a cage at the emergency vet! I have spent all night worried sick about it and I pray that [...]

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I’ve never used any of the Hartz flea and tick products, because the first time I ever purchased a Hartz product, which was a package of Hartz Meaty Bonz, my dog got sick. I gave her one bone out of the package and within 2 hours of eating it, she began vomiting. She vomited several [...]

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I had 3 related cats, all of whom I used the flea drops on per instructions (I used Advantix and one other brand). One, a female, is very sensitive to skin irritation, will avoid being petted due to those little static electricity shocks, and grooms more vigorously and more frequently than the other two (her [...]

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Last night, my 11 year old daughter’s cat, Alley (who is 2) was scratching, so I gave her some topical Hartz flea medicene. Usually, I give her the one spot from the vet, but I was out and Hartz was all I had. I was not aware of the dangers at all. About an hour [...]

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My family sufferred a great tragedy almost two years ago. In response we got my son a small grey cat from the neighbor who we lovenly named "Taz" or "Fluffy", depending which child you are. A few months later I found and adopted a cat that was an exact match of a cat I lost [...]

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I took my cat to the vet on Thursday and today she is being buried because of the Hartz 2 in 1 flea and tick shampoo I used to treat her flea problem. I got Mouse from a friend at work in 1993 she was so small she fit in my jacket pocket and was [...]

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….I just ad a story bout a cat becoming sick from flea collar…..my cat "Rita" named after rita marley, ,is about a 6 month lil black fluffy flea bag…very sweet anywho; she beame very sick and lethargic then lost her coordination totally in a period of about 24-36 hours…totally lethargis etc drugged looking…i took her [...]

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I noticed something was wrong when I bathed my 40lb companion and I had to watch for skin irritation.. After the third wash, I realized that using Hartz Shampoo Flea and Tick was causing the irritation on her skin and it would last for weeks. Her skin was hot and she would not stop scratching. [...]

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My husband and I have been bewildered by the seisures that have suddently taken over our cat Mocha. We had to find out what could have caused this. I knew that his food was okay since we had to investigate that a while back when he was getting urine infections. Turns out most cat foods [...]

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Hello my name is Anita, it was a wonderful day Dec 31st New Year’s Eve and it Turned in to tragedy when I use Hartz Ultra Guard Plus On my adult cat, and she had a reaction to the drops and she went in In to seizure 6 hours we took her to the Vet [...]

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I bathed my puppy with Hartz Puppy Shampoo, while bathing my puppy ingested a little bit of shampoo. While I was drying him, he went into a seizure. Since the seizure went away, I decided to watch him over night. He had another seizure the next day so I took him to the Vet. While [...]

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I have a 8 year old long haired Doxie and on New Year’s Eve (yesterday) I gave him a bath in the early afternoon. Later on that evening put Sergeant’s Gold flea and tick squeeze-on drops on his upper back behind his neck. I bought the product earlier that day at the grocery store. After [...]

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