Re: Lessons learned

2006-11-08 Thread Leslie
Hi Cindy,
I don't know anything about their litter. I didn't even know that they made litter. If you've been using it and have been happy with it, I see no reason to stop . Their toys and other innocuous things I would think are fine, but just beware the flea stuff and buy with caution if it's anything medical that doesn't come from your vet.


I found the following sites just by Googling Hartz flea - these were the first two and followed by many more. TheEPA one says that they have changed their...formula?...at the end of last year,so maybe the problem hasbeen taken care of, but as they say, once bitten... 

http://www.hartzvictims.org/
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/flea-tick-drops.htm

Thanks,
Leslie

From: cindy reasoner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Lessons learned (was: Re: Please add to the CLS - and
 HELP -long, sorry)What about their cat litter?Cindy Reasoner--- Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Mine was about the dangers of Hartz. PLEASE don't use their
 products (especially) flea stuff on any of your animals, positive, negative, dog, ferret, cat, whatever. Okay, off the soapbox. Leslie


Re: Lessons learned (was: Re: Please add to the CLS - and HELP - long, sorry)

2006-11-07 Thread cindy reasoner
What about their cat litter?

Cindy Reasoner

--- Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Mine was about the dangers of Hartz.  Using their
 flea stuff is actually
 how I discovered that my first Felv+ cat was Felv+. 
 Thinking that if it was
 on the shelf, it was safe (what a naive consumer), I
 put it on Sushi and
 woke the next morning to an extremely lethargic cat.
  I rushed her to the
 vet's office, where the vet (who I hated) berated me
 for poisoning my cat -
 not that he was wrong, but the condescension was a
 little much in a crisis.
 When they were doing bloodwork, they tested for
 Felv+ and the rest is
 history.  She ended up recovering fully $500 later.
 
 Many bad things that happen are random, you could do
 the same thing every
 day and be fine, and if Hartz weren't known in the
 vet community for being a
 dangerous product, I wouldn't spread the fear, but
 PLEASE don't use their
 products (especially) flea stuff on any of your
 animals, postivie, negative,
 dog, ferret, cat, whatever.
 
 Okay, off the soapbox.
 
 Leslie
 
 
 From: TenHouseCats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: Please add to the CLS - and HELP -
 long, sorry
 
  oh, my, phaewyrn, can i second that! i've learned
 some of the hardest
  lessons in my life via not knowing better with
 the cats.
 
  why we sometimes have to learn in such a difficult
 way i do not know, but
  in
  passing on what we've learned from them, we honor
 them every time we help
  someone else NOT learn the hard way
 
  (my biggies were finding out about what anemia
 looks like, and the
  susceptibility of purrsians to pesticides )
 




 

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