What Are We Putting On Our Pets?
This story distressed me deeply. I got a phone call from a friend of mine that a mutual friend of ours had accidentally killer her own cat. She was in a hurry, needing to go to England for a few days. She thought she would just quickly apply deflea-ing treatment to her animals before she left, as her mother is elderly and not able to do it.
The lady in question owns three dogs and several cats. She uses a treatment that can be bought at the veterinary surgery for the treatment of all her animals. The process is simple, you open the capsule and squeeze the contents of the capsule between the shoulder blades of the animal being treated. I myself use the same formula for all my animals.
On the fateful day, our friend accidentally administered a dog dose to one of her cats. Within minutes it was obvious that the cat was in severe distress, and he could hardly breathe. She rushed him to the vet. At that moment she was unaware of what had happened. The vet examined the cat and as he was examining him, the cat died.
It was only when she got home and started tidying up the capsules, that she realised she had accidentally administered one dog dose too many.
My heart goes out to her. I cannot imagine how she must feel as I look at my three cats lying happily in the sun on the balcony. I do wonder what I am putting on my animals now, and whether I can find an alternative flea treatment that has none of the harmful side-effects of the current treatment. I also looked at the treatments we have in our cupboard and have now separated the dog treatments from the cat ones. I just wish the company producing the capsules could maybe change the colour of one set of capsules, so that we know for example that the red capsules are for dogs and the blue ones for cats. That should not be too difficult and may prevent a further tragedy from happening.
Anyone who knows a truly effective treatment against fleas that does not involve killing chemicals, please let me know
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