I have a 7 week old kitten named Missy. I live with my uncle and he has a dog who goes outside but my kitten doesn’t I prefer to have her inside so she doesn’t run off and get into stuff that will harm her. Anyway because my uncle’s dog goes outside he sometimes gets fleas and sadly, my little Missy got them bad and she would constantly be crying and scratching and following me around hoping I could get rid of the fleas. I felt bad so I asked my uncle’s vet if there was anything I could use on her that wouldn’t harm her but kill the fleas. All she did was tell me to go to any grocery store and anything would work. I started to have a bad feeling when she said that because not everything is perfect.  I then saw Hartz products and I called and asked her about the ingredients and she told me to use the spray. She also told me not to use a lot because it said to not use for kittens under 12 weeks old. I bought the product and sprayed a little on her, she tried to lick herself and I noticed immediately that we was pretty much eating the spray. I quickly got online and saw this website. I started to cry and freak out because I don’t want anything happening to her so I went to the kitchen sink and filled up the plastic tub with dawn soap and warm water, I washed her down and dried her off. So far she seems normal and she drank some cold water I gave her to hopefully get the chemicals out of her mouth. If it wasn’t for this site my baby could be slowly getting sick right now and I am so happy that she is climbing up my back and sitting behind my neck again purring and being herself. Tomorrow I will be returning the Hartz spray and never using it again! My animals do not need to be treated as an object from a company who uses harmful chemicals!!!

On Dec. 6th, 2012 I found a round worm in my shitzus fesces. I went to work and when I got home I decided to give her some Hartz Ultra Guard plus ridworm liquid. That evening she was fine. The next afternoon when we were watching tv, she tried to jump up to sit with us and she could not. she tried several times and still not able to. I tried to pick her up and she yelped at me and bit me cause it hurt her. I thought someone had come into my yard and hurt her. She layed down and went to sleep for a bit then she just stumbled around and stared at walls and things like she was seeing ghost. I thought she had nausea or had ate something bad. She is not able to leave yard, so that didnt make sense. We went to bed and she whined all night. She could not walk the next morning. We could not touch her. If we tried she backed up. She would not get up. Not eating or drinking much. Her eyes were goopy and small, she had fever, and pain. got on web and found this sight. I finally coaxed her into going outside to try to potty and pass this awful medicine. We was in the yard for 1 and 1/2 hours. She wanted to crawl off and lay down. I cried. Got a blanket and got her on it and we both picked her up with it and took her in. The vet was not open but someone told me if she got worse that they had the home number. We pushed food and water on her as much as we could and let her sleep like a baby. She would only eat very soft food. She couldn,t go to potty without going down a ramp. The stairs she used was impossible for her to do. Today she finally went to potty real big and is eating better. she is still tender and not jumping yet but she is better. I will never give an pet of mine another hartz product or even shampoo her in their products. Only natural products from now on. I am so glad that she is going to make it. She isn’t 100% but she is better and still with us.

Last night, my parents decided to give our family dog, Teddy Bear, a bath before they left on vacation this weekend. After giving him the bath with Hartz shampoo, he was unable to walk. My mom thought he was just slipping on the tile floor, so she didn’t think a lot of it. He started acting normally, and then they went to bed. Early this morning, my mom woke up to have Teddy acting strangely. He acted distressed, but he’s a funny little guy, so she wasn’t sure if something was actually wrong. Later that morning, Teddy lost his ability to walk completely. My parents immediately rushed him to the vet’s office, and her first response was that it was the Hartz shampoo. Teddy is a 10 pound yorkie-poo, but it still took two valium shots and three baths to keep him from having a seizure. He seems to be better now, but he is still unable to walk and is lethargic. The fact that this website even exists is proof that Hartz needs to be taken off the market. How is it that a company claiming to help animals is actually killing them and getting away with it? I will do everything possible to make sure something is done. I’m very lucky that Teddy Bear is still here, but I never want anyone else to have to deal with this issue or worse.

Three days ago we gave our pug Hartz flea and tick drops. A day later he couldn’t stand right and was really weak. We thought he was just tired. The next morning he was foaming at the mouth and twitching so we rushed him into the vets and they gave him medicine and he stopped. We went and visited him today,and at 7:30 he went into cardiac arrest and died. They confirmed that it was the Hartz. Also a in march we had Bruno and his brother Ziggy,we gave them both Hartz. Ziggy died then. Bruno got better fast. We are suing. R.I.P. Bruno and Ziggy. We love you! <3

Apparently another victim of Hartz! My mother-in-law’s cat died the day after she put half a tube of the flea and tick drops on her. She started acting very strangely: staring off, coughing up foam, not eating (even her favorite canned food). My mother-in-law attempted to wash the area where she applied the drops but it was too late. The cat started meowing very loudly and pitifully (sounding like she was in heat), then she just laid down and died. In hindsight, we should’ve known better. A couple years ago we used the Hartz drops on our dog Sammy. We had a flea collar on the dog already, but it didn’t seem to help so we put the drops on her. Later that day we noticed that the left side of her face was swollen a little. I immediately took the flea collar off. A couple hours later the left side of her face was HUGE and she was acting strangely. She was lethargic and wasn’t eating or playing. She even tried to get in the car. She HATES the car…almost her way of saying “help me!” We assumed she was stung by a bee or scorpion or bit by a snake, thinking there was no way that a well-known company like Hartz would sell a dangerous product. Anyways, we gave her some Benadryl and eventually the swelling went down and she returned to normal. PLEASE don’t use Hartz products on your pet! Two of 2 pets that we have used it on have had an allergic reaction!!

Our neighbors found a litter of abandoned kittens and were just barely keeping them alive. We took one of them, a beautiful black tiny thing. She was drinking cows milk and starting to eat soft food but was only about 3 weeks old. We called the Vet to see what we should do and they told us to feed it Milk Replacer. We live in a pretty rural area and the only thing around is Walmart so we picked up the only thing they had which was the Haartz Milk Replacer. I gave it to her in a bottle that day starting at noon. She had 2 very small bottles. The next morning she was still in her basket when I woke up. The previous days she would start meowing when she heard us but that day she didn’t. I looked at her and she was sleeping. About 8 I checked again and she lifted her head so slightly so I left her alone. I went back about 20 minutes later and she had pooped in her bed and didn’t move her head at all. I picked her up to clean her off but she was very very limp. I told my husband that I thought she was dying. We both said that maybe we fed her too much. I layed her back down and she just layed on her side with her eyes wide open and glossy but she was still breathing. I honestly expected her to die. I kept checking on her every 20 minutes but nothing changed. I got a medicine dropper to give her some water and she just let it roll off her mouth. I had to move her head so she wouldn’t just lay in the wet area. She was completely limp with her head and paws. It was so terrible. I just cried. Then I would touch her tummy and she would twitch. We were going to go out of town that day but I couldn’t leave her nor take her with so we changed our plans. Finally about noon I checked on her and gave her some more water. About 20 minutes later she lifted her head, then within a half hour she stood up and bumped erratically into the sides of the basket. Then she was back to normal. It was the strangest thing. We were happy. That night I gave her some more milk replacer. She didn’t drink much. When the kids went to bed I googled “kitten coma” and “Kitten lethargic” because it seemed she was in a coma like state. I came across this website and others and was horrified to realize that it was the Haartz Milk Replacer! How horrible that Walmart sells this awful stuff!! We tried a couple of places in town and found some KMR and now she is about 6 weeks old, growing and thriving. She is a great kitten, we love her so much and I am glad I didn’t give up on her and she was strong enough to survive this but I know that if I gave her more we would have lost her.

Coming home this morning, petting my cat I saw there was a flea hanging out on his neck. What the heck, he’s an indoor cat. Never having a flea problem in his whole life I quick ran and got Hartz Ultraguard for cats. Following the age, weight guidelines, and proper directions for my cats not even 10 seconds later my one cat was starting to heavily drool from the mouth. I threw both my cats in the tub and immeditaley began to wash them with dish soap. Between getting the oncall number for the vet, my husband found a link to this page and what to look out for and confirm we did the right thing. I scrubbed them multiple times, and towel drying them not daring to let them lick themselves dry before their fur was completely dried out. As soon as I washed the product off, my cat stopped drooling. She was shaking for about 20 minutes after the ordeal, but is fine. I will never be using another Hartz product again.

I bought hartz flea collars my my cats buster & Sadie, after one week my cats started getting irritated & wanted them off. when I took sadies collar off she had a hole on her neck, her fur was gone & her skin was red raw. I called the vet right away & they ask me if i had used any flea & tick stuff on her so I told yes hartz flea collars & they told me hartz was the worst product ever & they didn’t know why hartz could still be on the market I couldn’t believe now my poor sadie still has the hole on her neck its scabbed over and I just hope it heals & she has no other health problems because hartz.

I always thought Hartz was a good trusty name brand until the first time I tried it on my cat. As soon as I had put it on him he stated falling all over the place and was acting very strange. I would not recommend this product to anyone. I immediately washed the product off of my baby had still had to hold him until he got over the side effects. I will never use this product on any of my animals again.

Hi, I used the Harz flea and tick topical medication on my dog, back in September. I went to brush his coat the next week, and a patch of hair came out. I then checked his skin and every were I had put the medication on his back clunks of hair came out. I took him to the Vet and they had to give him medication, and now his seems to be coming back slowly. I can’t believe that the would be marketed for use, when it is this strong and harms the dog.

Our pets had never had fleas…went to Safeway and bought Sergeant’s Evolve for both dogs.  Witten is a 100+ lb Rottweiller with a heart of gold…and Mr. Stubbs is a 24 lb Shitzu with the sweetest face you’ve ever seen.  Within minutes the shitzu started acting weird…it didn’t register at first what could be causing it…I thought the fleas were just biting because of the medicine that we had just put on.  He was agitated and would not sit still…not even for a minute.  I got online and read that it may be an allergic reaction.  I rinsed it off of him with water.  He still wasn’t better…I stayed up with him all night and could only get him to settle down and stop moving if I pet him.  The minute I stopped petting him he would freak out again.  My husband got online and read that he needed to be washed with Dawn dishwasing liquid.  This helped improve him quite a bit…but still he wasn’t great.  I called the vet and they couldn’t see him but said to give him benedryl and call back in the morning.  The benedryl did at least help calm him but he started getting big welt like bumps under his skin that were hard, hot to the touch and red.  I took him to the vet this morning and they gave him a shot of something which seems to have helped a ton…but he still has welts.  This all started on Tuesday, Nov 6th, 2012 and it is now Friday night.  I thought the nightmare was beginning to subside and now I have discovered welts on my rottweiler that look like burn marks on the line where the medicine was placed.  I hadn’t even considered that this medicine was just completely poisonous for all dogs…I was thinking that my shitzu just had an allergic reaction…that is possible right?…well I do not think that it is a coincidence that my rottweiller is now suffering from the same affliction.  So I got online and started doing more research and find that there have been hundreds of complaints about these over the counter flea and tick medications…and not just the kind that I bought and administered to my dogs but collars, shampoos, etc. People’s dogs are dying from this stuff.  How is it possible that these companies can remain in business?  I have read that we all need to call and register a formal complaint with the EPA.  I will be doing that first thing in the morning and so will my husband.

After reading all of the stories from people and realizing that my dogs could now how liver damage I am even more furious!  I am going to post on facebook what this company has done and is doing to pets and their owners.  Please, Please, Please…if you have had the same experience…tell everyone you know, post on facebook and call the EPA to file a formal complaint.  The production of these products needs to be halted!!!!

I will be looking into starting up a class action lawsuit against Hartz if anyone cares to join. I will update as soon as I find something out. If, by chance, 1 has already been started… someone PLEASE let me know how to go about taking part. I have lost 2 kittens and a pomeranian so far, because of hartz products!!! They need to be shut down!!!

On 9/16 my cat had her 1st litter of kittens. She had 5, but the runt of the litter died 2 days later. On 10/22 one of the 3 kittens we had left started acting strange(whining, not nursing, real lethargic). My sister suggested maybe getting a bottle and some pet formula, so she’d atleast get some sort of nutrition. On 10/24 we woke up to find the kitten acting a little better(moving around, light back in her eyes, etc). So I went to wal-mart and bought a bottle w 2 cans of the hartz kitten formula. I came home, sterilized the bottle, and we tried to feed it to her. We didn’t get much into her… within 5 minutes of eating, what little bit she did, she went down heal FAST!! About 15-20 minutes later she died in my arms after seizing!! I thought nothing of the formula. I fed it to my cat, because it says that you can give it to nursing cats. This morning we woke to find that the only boy of the litter was acting strange(mewing loudly/painfully, limp like he couldn’t move, labored breathing, etc). At 3:10am he started mewing this extremely loud and painful sounding mew. I walked into my bedroom to see him try to sit up, only to fall over. At 3:15 he died in my arms!!! I hope to God that my cat and the other 2 kittens will be ok!!! Earlier today I bought the hartz ultraguard flea/tick drops for both my cats and dogs. I was a little worried about the way in which the dogs drops are applied, so I asked my aunt if she had used them before and if they were safe. She told me she doesn’t use hartz, because her vet told her never to use that brand and that I should look up reviews for it. So that is what I did. Not only have I found that the hartz milk replacement I bought is probably the cause of the kittens I’m losing for mo reason, but then found that the drops I had already applied, to 2 out 3 of my dogs and all 3 of my cats, were killing animals as well!!! Needless to say I ran around frantically scrubbing my animals down with baby wipes to get it off of them!!! I hope and pray I got it soon enough that it won’t harm them!! Upon thinking about it… the perfectly healthy pomeranian that went all weak/lethargic, wouldn’t eat/drink, was throwing up, and unltimately DIED… was given HARTZ worm tablets a few days to a week before that!!!  Why in the hell are they able to sell this crap in stores if this is what it’s doing to the animals?!?!? I will NEVER use hartz ANYTHING again!!!!

I used the Hartz flea drops on our cats at 4:oo PM on 10-28-12.  Both cat and kitten died 5 hours later.  They started to shake, foam at the mouth, and have sever convulsion.  We took them to the vet immediately, he knew right away what was going on.  Apparently they get 30 pets a month because of Hartz.  I used the products properly.

Puff was an all white cat with green eyes.  She was very pretty.  She loved to chase moths around the house.  Her favorite spot was to either sleep on my mom or this green chair we have.  She was very protective of our family.  When tomcats came around, she’d have a fit.  Same with other dogs that came over.

Tree-Rat is one of three kittens our other cat Minnie had earlier this year.  He was all black, and just a big ball of fluff.  He was extremely playful and kind.  He’d come up and sleep with anyone.  We called him Tree Rat because he had a big fluffy tail like a Tree Rat(Squirrel)  When he’d stretch, his tail would go all the way up his back over his head.

The kitten I came upon was vivacious and energetic as well as happy and loving. I fed her cow’s milk and as expected she got diarrhea. I needed something, though. I knew I had to get a formula, so I went to Wal-Mart and bought Hartz’s formula. I didn’t know any better. Over time the time span of four days, my kitten started having disturbing symptoms. I did not connect them to the formula until it was too late. The first night she threw up, which I just attributed to tummy upset. The next few days I started noticing that when I would feed her, a half hour or so later she would start acting odd. Day two, after a feeding she just went in a corner and started meowing loudly. She also would stare off into space and circle around in her litter box and just fade off. When she would re-animate, she started acting very restless as if she was looking for something. She started just hiding behind things, as if she was sick. She didn’t do that when “normal”. The third day, I had to take her to the vet because I thought something else was wrong. On this day, she was doing the trance thing and was very restless alternating with near paralyzation over and over. I noticed she also had bad gas. The vet put her in an incubator with oxygen and gave her fluids. She somehow miraculously popped out of it after a few hours (digestion time, hmm?). The next day, the symptoms returned after feeding. I put her in a box with blankets because she kept doing the weird trance thing and was obviously distressed. She just stood in the corner with her head against the walls, like she couldn’t move. Her tail was twitching oddly and near the end before she lost consciousness, she was mewing loudly. She never did this before. Obviously, this time her reaction was so severe that I had to put her to sleep. My last memory of her, besides standing in a corner unresponsive, was of her lying in an incubator, totally dead to the world. Thanks for killing my kitten, Hartz. Please, everyone, do NOT give your kitten this poison. Get KMR.

I had just gotten a new kitten, she was 6 weeks old. She was a healthy little ball of energy, very playful & loving. I decided to get the Milk replacement formula for her because she wasn’t interested in the other kitty Crunchy food I had for my other kitten. So I fed her the Formula mixed with water as described on the container at 9pm (10/19/12 Friday). She ate the formula. I went to sleep at 11Pm, woke up at 8am the following morning to find my kitten lifeless. I thought she was already dead. I seen that she had been throwing up throughout the night. I checked her & she was still breathing, she had a lifeless stare in her eyes so I rushed her to the Animal Hospital & the Vet told me she looked like she was poisoned because her upper body was paralyzed & her back feet were ok. He told me she wouldn’t survive. I then made the decision to euthanize the poor kitty to put her out of her Misery. We buried her in my backyard. R.I.P Lilah. If this formula wasn’t sold in stores today my kitty would still be here.

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he had surgery today 2 big cuts to remove a chunk of his skin

One year ago my 10 year old indoor only cat broke a screen and got outside. Since he was an indoor only cat I had never treated him for fleas, so when he came back home I decided that as a precaution I should treat him. I bought Hartz one spot for cats and kittens and used one dose on him. Very soon after this he started to get very sick. He was vomiting all the time, and was jaundiced. After a year long battle with liver failure, 2 lengthy hospitalizations, and thousands of dollars in vet bills it breaks my heart to say that he had to be put to sleep last month. I didn’t even think for one minute that a product sold for cats, could actually kill my cat, until desperate for answers I started doing research and came across so many sad stories like my own. I am so angry, and sad that my sweet boy had to suffer so terribly because I failed him as his protector. I wish that I would have researched before using this horrible product on him. You simply cannot trust that products are safe just because they are being sold in stores. Through my grief and guilt I hope that putting my story out there can save more cats from the terrible fate that met my beloved kitty, Jeter.

OMG. this stuff is terrible. I couldnt understand that when I put this on my 3 cats they started acting nuts! My older cat took off and just came home. And I know its normal for them to run but this is not right. All of them are spooked it seams and one them them started throwing up profusely shortly after getting his dose last night. He threw up everything including bile he was warm to the touch and cowered away from me which is not normal with him. Shame on you hartz. Just because they are animals dosent make it OK to poison, You wouldnt feed fyour family poison or would you???????????

I bought Sergeant’s Gold Squeeze-On for cats from Target in Garner, NC White Oak Shopping Center on Saturday October 7th, 2012. I applied it to my cat Byron when I got home in the early evening exactly how the package said. He was at least 12lbs, and the package said cats and kittens over 5lbs. All day Sunday he seemed to be fine. Was a little more cuddly than normal, but nothing to really take alarm to. I noticed he has started to have twitching, but I thought it might be the fleas and the medicine working. Monday morning, October 9th, 2012, we woke up around 8am to find Byron lying on the side of our living room chair wedged between the chair and tv stand. He was already dead. No sign of vomiting, but now I am assuming he had a seizure and fell before he died. Byron would have been a year old next month, and was a very active totally healthy cat! I called the company and was told that since we did not have an autopsy done (we could not afford it) that they will assume it was not their product. Since Byron was not vomiting, and we had no actual proof of seizures (which is what their product causes) they would document it but that is it. I did not call wanting anything from the company, I just wanted answers as to WHY this product is still on the shelves. It never occurred to me that it would cause Byron to die. Now I have to live with the guilt of what I put my cat through. I will NEVER use anything on my animals over the counter again. I just really wish I would have been able to notice something, and done anything to help him Please do NOT use this product on any animal. RIP Byron. You will be missed by us all.

Our beloved pet has just been buried in our backyard, thanks to the potent toxins contained in Hartz Ultra Guard.

Last week we noticed a bit of scratching so on my Saturday morning grocery trip, I picked up some Ultraguard. Saturday afternoon we gave her a bath. After that bath, we notice some strage behaviour, panting, mouth drouping, did not think much of it and figured she would shake it off in a few hours. Next day, she would not eat or drink. Breathing was labored. Sunday night I awoke to a mournful whimpering, labored breathing and a foul odor coming from our pet. Bladder control was absent.
The vet did not open until 8am but we were there at 7:45. I dropped her off and headed for work.

By 10, she had died.

We are shocked and I blame myself for using such a dangerous product without any researh. I mistakenly believed that since this produce was on a major supermarkets shelves, it had to be safe and effective.

I feel sick, looking out my window at a fresh pile of dirt in the backyard which is all that remains of what 3 days ago was a loving/loved member of the family.

How could I have allowed this to happen? I guess I was in to much of a damn hurry to be bothered with looking into the products I’m applying to our pet.

Shame on me. Shame on Hartz.

We have had a bad flea problem for a couple of weeks now, and have been trying desperately to keep the parasites off of our dog and two cats. We used hartz on all of the animals two days ago. This morning I rushed to the vet with one of our cats after I found her on the floor, unable to stand, laying in a clear fluid that she seemed to have vomited. By the time the vet saw her, her heart had stopped beating momentarily, and she was declared brain dead. She passed away just hours later, and our vet says the toxins in the shampoo did it to her. The other cat and dog were immediately bathed in regular shampoo, but this is outrageous that a product so toxic is being allowed on the shelves. It was not time for Miss Kitty to go, and all of our hearts are broken. I am mortified that something hasn’t been done about this product yet.

We have had a flea problem this year and treated my 6 year old lab with a Skip Flea and Tick bath and then Hartz Ultra Guard for 60lb + dogs.  A couple of hours later I noticed that she stumbled a bit and seemed a little gimpy in her rear legs.  I immediately thought it was a neurological reaction and came to look on the web.  Had no idea that this stuff was such a problem.  Can’t believe this is allowed to be on the market in nearly every discount / department store around.  I immediately bathed her in dish soap and rinsed,  drying with a towel.  She seems OK for now and I sure hope she is OK in the morning.  If this product were to kill my dog,  there would be a real problem on someone’s hands.

Let me tell you about my Charlie,  He is a Beagle/Miniature Schnauzer he is called a Schneagle, if you google this you can see what Charlie looks like.  He is a Wonderful Dog, Happy and has always been healthy.  About a year ago,  I noticed he had fleas.   He had been visiting my mom and she has 3 other dogs,  Sophia-Beagle, Kaiser-Jack Russell, and Ginger-Rat Terrier.  My mom said she would give them some flea medication.  She gave them all a flea bath using Hartz.  Later that evening while Charlie was back home he had a seizure.  I had never experienced this and it was terrifying.  I called the emergency vet and told her all that I knew, when I mentioned he had a flea bath, she asked if it had pyrethrins in it.   I had no idea what this was.  I told her I would find out.  Charlie came out of the seizure but went into another, meanwhile I found out the HARTZ flea bath had pyrethrins.  I called back the emergency vet she said give him a bath to wash off all of these  toxins off of him.  My friend and I gave Charlie a bath.   He seemed perfectly fine as soon as we washed him off.     My mom’s dogs Kaiser and Ginger were ok, Sophia was very sick.  My mom gave all of them a bath to wash the toxins off of them.   In the last year Charlie has had 2 more seizures,  I feel that the only reason he is having seizures is because he was poisoned by Hartz.  He was a perfectly healthy dog before this..  I posted my story on facebook and heard an overwhelming response from friends, I was shocked that this product is on the market.  I called Hartz and they told me the ratio is only about  10% of animals get sick from their products, I told her in my experience it was 50%, 2 of 4 dogs had reactions to their products.  They were uncaring. My fiance spoke to Wal-Mart where the Hartz products were bought they pulled it off of their shelves for a day..  I have spoken to about 6 different vet offices and they see this all of the time from Hartz products they said it is more dangerous to cats.  It is Shocking that a product that is dangerous to animals can even be on the market.  I had always thought Hartz had a good name.  I will never buy a Hartz product and will tell everyone I know.  Please if you care for you pet dont buy their products.  Charlie is a member of our family, we are responsible for his Heatlh and Happiness, Hartz doesnt care about his well being,  If they will not pull their product why is there is no warning lable on a product they know has serious ramifications. Why NOT?,

Hi, if you’re on this site, it’s because you care about your pets. If you’re reading this post, it is because you share something in common with me; The dislike of Hartz products!

Like most people, I have used a Hartz line product and its side effects nearly killed my cat. After reading some of the more serious cases reported due the lack of respect of Hartz, I consider my cat lucky. Even though, she needed serious medical attention because she was very dehydrated and had lost so much weight because her appetite decreased, my 6 year old cat survived.

To show Hartz that they cannot get away with this, please read and sign my petition that I have started on the link below.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/940/472/655/hartz-products-stop-the-manufacturing-of-poisonous-pet-care-products/

I appreciate everyones support, please and thank you!

Hi, i’m making a video about the victims of Hartz. If you’re interested please email me pictures of your pets, of you and your pet together, children and kids playing with pets etc. The animals don not have to be just the victims of Hartz, but the pictures can be of any pet you currently own or any pet you have previously owned.

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Pet’s age:

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*If you could also send a short message along with the pictures (2-4 sentences) talking about your pet, the grief of the incident, your pets favorite things to do etc. All this would help alot.

My email is [email protected]

Please sign my petition at the link below:

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I appreciate everyones support, please and thank you!

we purchased a Hartz brand flea collar for our adult, male cat. Little did we know that we were hurting him we went to the vet a few months later and they told us to take the flea collar of and we did but my dad kept insisting that the cat did better with it so every time we would take it off and tell him what the vet said he kept insisting that he did better with it and then we went back to the vet and they gave us this site and we showed him all the stories and some of the pictures of TJ. he then looked on our cats neck and sure enough there was a bald raw ring around his neck. WE WILL NEVER EVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS USE HARTZ PRODUCTS AGAIN!!!!! EVER! thanks to this site you probably saved our cats life

Greetings,
I found this site today after applying the Hartz flea drops to my two cats; Umbreon & Espeon. I was mortified; not only by reading the stories and the horrible things that people and pets have gone through, but that my normal OCD self didn’t look into the product before using it. After reading a few posts I immediately bathed Umby & Espy in their normal Pet Head shampoo and rinsed thoroughly. They seem to be OK, other than their usual pissed off look that they had to be bathed. I just hope that the shampoo and rinsing did the trick and that nasty stuff is no longer on them. I did wash them bare handed, should I be worried for myself too. I am germaphobe and an avid hand washer so I think I should be OK. I just thank this site for allowing people to share their stories and let others know about the harmful things this product is responsible for. Thank you.

Our two cats had fleas so I bought Hartz Ultra Guard. That was the biggest mistake the next both of our healthycats were sick. First our cat started throwing up so I put him outside on the front porch to see what was going on. He got away from me and got under our wrap around porch. Normally after a few minutes I can bribe him to come out with something. This time was different so I got a flashlight and started looking. He was panting like a dog and foaming at the mouth. He was not able to walk to meormy kids which was unusual. My two kids and I tore part of our porch apart to drag him out. I rushed him to an emergency vet at midnight. $300dollars later we brought him home. The next morning when I found him he was hidingunder a bed I had to pull him out and he felt hot so I took him to another vet. He had a fever of 105 so they gave him sub Q fluids which he had also had the night before. This happened Friday and Saturday and here it is Monday and our poor Toby will not eat or drink I don’t know what to do I am going to call the vet as soon as they open but I cannot afford to keep taking him to a vet for something that should have made  him feel better instead of so sick. If I had known I would have never used this product on my cats. Luckily the other did not get as sick as Toby…

Update on Toby Sept.28,2012

Toby had experienced a stroke and kidney failure and was no longer able to eat or drink anything. We had to make the hardest decision in our lives today and had him put to sleep. Toby suffered up to the very end and I could not watch him suffer anymore. He was taken to the vet again Monday because he was throwing up white foam it was almost nonstop. They kept him on IV fluids and plenty of meds until I got the call this morning that he only had a 20% chance of living. Hartz should have to be punished for what they have put Toby and my family through. My 12 and 14 year olds should have never had to see there precious cat this sick.. Now we are all mourning the death of our cat ): PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT IT KILLS THE HEALTHIEST OF PETS!!