Johanna
09-01-2008, 12:11 AM
I CANT BELIEVE THIS STUFF IS ALLOWED ON THE SHELVES!!!! Our dog could have died today had we not acted quick enough! I am posting our story as a warning to all other dog owners. We just got a new puppy (schnoodle) and we decided to go ahead and treat them (we also have a 2yo golden doodle) with a flea and tick medicine. First we treated my adult dog (thankfully we never treated the puppy) we put the serum on her back and within 20 minutes our dog started to roll around and seem agitated. Well, we didnt think much of it because we just figured that she never really likes anything sticking to her fur, so it was probably annoying her. Not to mention that it smelled REALLY bad.
So, about an hour later our dog started going downhill fast. We noticed she was drooling prefusely! She was scratching at her back to the point of hurting herself, she was breathing heavy, she was rolling around....acting very nervous , anxious, weird movements....as if she was being poisoned.....as it turns out she was being poisoned!
So, immediately we start trying to wash the stuff off! We go online to look up the safety of this stuff (COULD HAVE KICKED MYSELF FOR NOT DOING THIS FIRST) They forum said to immediately wash the dog down with palmolive or Dawn dish detergent as many times as needed. Give your dog Benadryl and apply cortizone to the area, which by this point was blood red!! Our dog started to improve almost immediately after we did the above things. She calmed down a bit. She was breathing a little better, and her drooling is getting better.
The scary thing is that we were planning to leave her this afternoon to go to the store. Had we not noticed before we left or left just after we applied the medicine (not thinking anything could go wrong), she would have been left by herself to suffer and who knows what could have happened!!!
Thank God, we didnt go on to use it on our little puppy, I had bought another box for him and thought to use it after I was going to bathe him later in the day!! I dont thing he would have survived it!
Thank GOd for the people on the forums who posted the measures to take to help my dog.
My vet said to not use anything except Frontline.
On a lighter note, we DID just get a puppy!!!:)
He is a real sweetie. A Miniature schnauzer and mini poodle combo (they call them schnoodles) All I know is that he wont shed just like our golden doodle which is perfect for my allergy sufferers in this house...if you want to see pics click on our blog in my sig!!
Thanks for hearing my rant....hopefully it will help keep this from happenning to others if word is spread!!
What a day!
So, about an hour later our dog started going downhill fast. We noticed she was drooling prefusely! She was scratching at her back to the point of hurting herself, she was breathing heavy, she was rolling around....acting very nervous , anxious, weird movements....as if she was being poisoned.....as it turns out she was being poisoned!
So, immediately we start trying to wash the stuff off! We go online to look up the safety of this stuff (COULD HAVE KICKED MYSELF FOR NOT DOING THIS FIRST) They forum said to immediately wash the dog down with palmolive or Dawn dish detergent as many times as needed. Give your dog Benadryl and apply cortizone to the area, which by this point was blood red!! Our dog started to improve almost immediately after we did the above things. She calmed down a bit. She was breathing a little better, and her drooling is getting better.
The scary thing is that we were planning to leave her this afternoon to go to the store. Had we not noticed before we left or left just after we applied the medicine (not thinking anything could go wrong), she would have been left by herself to suffer and who knows what could have happened!!!
Thank God, we didnt go on to use it on our little puppy, I had bought another box for him and thought to use it after I was going to bathe him later in the day!! I dont thing he would have survived it!
Thank GOd for the people on the forums who posted the measures to take to help my dog.
My vet said to not use anything except Frontline.
On a lighter note, we DID just get a puppy!!!:)
He is a real sweetie. A Miniature schnauzer and mini poodle combo (they call them schnoodles) All I know is that he wont shed just like our golden doodle which is perfect for my allergy sufferers in this house...if you want to see pics click on our blog in my sig!!
Thanks for hearing my rant....hopefully it will help keep this from happenning to others if word is spread!!
What a day!