Dear RM Agents and Readers,
Just received this from another animal lover and this stuff sounds bad. My thoughts are that just like us, the more natural we go in these times the better off our whole family will be. Just because a food or treat is easy doesn't make it good. I've got dogs that were just like my kids--they love snacking on carrots.
Thank You Gail for sending this information forward!
Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver
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From another dog health list:
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 11:21 AM
I wanted to share with the group something that happened to one of my babies. I recently took one of my dogs to Fortpayne Alabama to a vet there.
He is an hour from me but, I like the way he interacts with my dogs. While there, I decided to get some Frontline. He explained that he had patients unhappy with that product and began carrying Promeris. I hadn't heard of this product but felt he wouldn't carry it if there were problems.
I applied the product to seven of my dogs one afternoon. Everyone appeared to be fine however, Banjo(Shepherd/Collie X) vomited a bit of grass but, that wasn't alarming to me. I never left the house that night but was upstairs in my office working. When I came down stairs Banjo wasn't at the hallway door where he always waited for me. I found him in my bedroom laying on his pillow his little head between his paws, his eyes staring. I called for him, no response. My boy was dead. I couldn't understand what could have happened to my baby? He was only 4 yrs old. Beautiful, healthy, energetic boy. It was a holiday weekend(Sept 3) so I called the crematorium to see if they would allow me to freeze him until I could get over the shock of this and figure out what I wanted to do. It suddenly hit me,the promeris? I called my vet were I purchased this. He agreed that it was very suspicious and requested that I bring Banjo to him for an autopsy. As much as I didn't want to do this, as a rescuer,I felt it would be irresponsible not to follow through. Our suspicions were accurate. The chemical in the product shut down his motor cortex at the base of his brain. It appeared that the neurological inhibitor put my Banjo to sleep. His application was for less than his body weight. The vet said that if he had gotten the full dosage he would have been gone in 30 minutes. The product takes 8 to 10 hours to get in to there blood stream. Banjo was dead 9 hours after his application. I asked for a pathology report to be done. Dr. Lee sent more tissue samples off to Auburn University and we are waiting for the results. Not certain the tissue will still be viable. Please tell everyone you know to stay clear of this flea/tick product.
It's a roll of the dice and not worth the risk. I have 6 dogs that appear to be o.k. but, Banjo lost his life. I don't know that I have ever felt such heartache. I will fight in his memory to have this product pulled or at the very least have the wording"this product could be fatal to some dogs"added to packaging. My vet boxed up this product and sent it back to Visor after his autopsy findings. He said he would not carry a product that could harm a dog in this way. Thank you Dr. Lee.
Subject: A drug warning...
Here is the Promeris website link, which states the active ingredient is metaflumizone.�� http://www.promeris.com/
And here is the Washington State Univ�� link to the list of MDR1 problem drugs, which does not list metaflumizone.�� http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-VCPL/drugs.aspx������; It's possible that some of the listed drugs are related to metaflumizone, but I don't have enough knowledge to determine that.
It would be good if people with herding dogs that react to Promeris would report it to WSU, so they could test to see if it needs to be added to the problem list.�� And of course, everyone who experiences it with their dog needs to report Promeris reactions to their vet and Wyeth/Fort Dodge Animal Health, the company that makes it.
~Nancy
SRGA Volunteer����
At 9/29/2010 03:38 PM, Nancy Hill wrote:
An acquaintance of mine just lost her 8 year old GSD to a promeris reaction.�� It turned out he had an underlying, previously unknown health condition which definitely contributed, but it was the reaction to Promeris which killed him within a day.�� I remember that that were issues with Promeris for some dogs a couple of years ago, Collies I think, so I have never used it for any of my dogs.
~Nancy
SRGA
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