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Originally Posted by Dave_ph
"Sargents kills cats"
That was the first thing my Vet said when I told her I used Sargents Flea drops on the cat I took in one night (Fay).
At the time I thought Fay was a stray and she was being driven crazy by fleas, it turns out she has an alergy to their bites. I took her flea bitten self in on a Sunday night and felt so sorry for her biting and scratching that I went they carry, Sargents Flea and Tic for cats. At the time I didn't know any better but 2 hours later I could tell it was hurting her.
When I told my Vet about her reaction she said "Sargents kills cats" and "Can you believe they sell that".
Hartz makes Sargents. After that I even found news videos about it.
I've never seen it in Petsmart.
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Sergeants almost killed my family cat. My mother used to buy flea meds and shampoos at the grocery store all the time, for the cat and my dog. Apparently, you can use a product for years and they can change something in the ingredient and your pet can have a bad reaction. Shortly after it was applied, my cat, Kitty, started acting funny so I gave him a bath. He tried to escape, as usual, and jumped out of the bath, but fell, actually fell. He became so weak he couldn't even lift his tail, and I had to beg and scream at my parents to call a vet. They had resigned to the fact that he was dying and no vets would be open because it was a Sunday. I finally found one that was open and we rushed him there, meanwhile in the car he began to seizure in my arms. He was only 5 years old. The vet shaved off his hair and rubbed charcoal on his skin, and pumped him w/ fluid and charcoal through an IV. At home I had to help him drink Pedialite w/ an eye dropper and stand him up in his litter box or he would fall and seizure again. The vet had told us he would be lucky to survive, and the chances of permanent neurological damage were pretty high. We were very, very lucky. Kitty survived, and is quite old now. The only thing we ever noticed was occasionally his back would spasm, but otherwise he was normal. We complained to Hartz, who makes Sergeants, and they just blew us off saying it must've been a predisposed allergic reaction and basically, we had no way to prove it was their product that caused it. I will never EVER use any sort of medication or chemical without the consent of my personal vet. It was the worst feeling in the world to be a child and hold a beloved family member in my arms and not be able to do a thing, and to have it been our fault as well.
