Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: voice4cats on July 27, 2011, 10:19:19 AM
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hi just signed up to this as you have been suggested to be the place to help me.i have just lost one of my two kittens after applying bob martin flea treatment for kittens and cats..within minutes they were both fitting and foaming at the mouth,on arrival to the vets i was concerned that they were already aware of the effects of this product..as they have seen the results many times.i am trying hard to make owners aware of the product and also trying to get the company to re package due to the details of what can happen not being on!!! all comments and suggestions would be helpful..thanks for your time :thanks:
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A lot of things that should have a warning don't. This is one of them, as is lilly plants from a garden centre. I firmly believe anything like that should make people aware of the severity of what can happen if they have animals.
I'm so sorry for your losses. :(
Have you tried the local media? Or even the national press?
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thanks,i am trying to gather evidence before i got to the paper,i am also planning on contacting bbc watchdog,but i need people to put in writing any information they have,no matter how little.. :thanks:
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The only information I have is what I've read online. But it sounds awful. :(
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his is our facebook group,please feel free to join and read our responses
http://www.facebook.com/groups/bobmartinawareness?ap=1
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Iv posted your link to the 2 other forums im on. Hope it helps :hug:
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thanks so much,if just one person takes notice i know my voice is being heard,thanks again x
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The group is doing really well ;D
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i know,i am so shocked myself at the support that we are getting,we have over 500 members in just over 3 days and if you think that IF only half have had a experience with bob martins thats terrible and then atleast the other half have been made aware and many pets have been saved..thats just how i look at it,the numbers may be completely different.
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What is in the Bob Martin "treatment" that is causing the problems ?
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from the research i am doing i am finding most of their products,but i myself am talking about the cat and kitten flea and tick repellant
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what I actually mean is - is there a particular ingredient within the treatment that is causing the problems as presumably it will be contained within other products as well?
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Just looked it up, these are the ingredients: Margosa Extract 3% w/w, Ethyl Butylacetylaminopropionate 9.8% w/w, Diethylene Glycol Ethyl Ether 86.95%
- don't know which of those would be responsible, or maybe the combination is lethal?
I said this before - we need retailers to stop stocking it, shouldnt we be targeting them as well as the public?
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Definately the retailers should stop stocking it but if the message to pet owners can be got across in very large numbers this will help force their hand.
The sad thing is that vets know there is a problem but they are not doing anything about it and would have thought they have somewhere they can report this.
The ingredients for frontline are in this link and very different, havent got a stronghold pack to hand so dont know what those are
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Ingredients_in_frontline_for_cats