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DO NOT USE PROMERIS ON YOUR PETS !!!! I would like to advise you of the problem I had last week with the new ProMeriS Flea and Tick treatment, put out by Fort Dodge. I am sharing this story, with the hope of saving someone else's beloved pet. I stopped by my Vet to purchase Frontline for Fleas and Ticks, as I had began to notice a few on my 2 Great Pyr dogs, since the warmer weather has arrived. She suggested a new product, that she thought I should try, so I agreed. The next day I applied the treatment to both my dogs, and almost immediately, one began to act kind of strange. Later that evening, she became desperately ill. Her entire body was jerking all over and she was breathing rapidly. She was also having some gastric distress, like she had eaten something that had made her ill, or at worst had possibly been poisioned. Then I remembered applying the ProMeris, earlier, and her acting odd. When I called my Vet, she knew immediately what it was and by the time I got there, she had called Fort Dodge, and they had agreed to pay the Vet's bills. An IV was started ASAP, and I was told that there was an antedote for ProMeris. It had apparently attacked her nervous system, and it could not be reversed. She died the next day.........they had her shipped immediately to a facility for a complete necropsy. I asked my Vet why, and was told that they needed it done for their "research". Could this product still be in the testing stage??? (EDITOR'S COMMENT: This is a normal procedure. There is probably not a drug of any kind on the market that is safe for absolutely every member of the species that it is designed to treat - including human drugs. With that in mind, all medications are in some state of testing. Look at all the human drugs that are being pulled off the market after extensive testing and FDA approval.) I am so angry, and so hurt over this, and I can never replace my sweet girl. I suppose that I am fortunate that my other female, didn't have the same reaction, and appears to be okay. Sincerely, Betty Wimberly Stardazl Persians and Exotics
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