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September 2003
I used Bio Spot on my cat this weekend. NEVER again will I subject my baby to that horrible stuff. I read the letters on your web site & thank god my cat Mookie didn't have the horrible reactions that some animals faced but non the less she is suffering some pyrethine toxicity. I was able to put it all together when I noticed her acting strangely shortly after I applied the medication. I looked up the product & found your site. I went & quickly washed it off & repeated the washing 3 times. This may have saved her life. She starting hiding in my closet which she never does and woke me and my husband up during the night crying (howling I should call it). It's been 3 days since the Bio Spot was applied and she still is experiencing some ear twitching but is getting back to herself. My vet said to watch her carefully and to encourage drinking which I've been doing anyway. I'm a nurse so putting a medication on her that cause her so much discomfort really up setme. I bought this stuff from Dr. Foster & Smith. I trusted their products. I am staying with Front Line only for my dog and cat. Thanks so much for you site it helped me a lot.
Jacqueline 9/1/03
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This past Saturday, being rushed for time, I decided to stop at a pet store closer to our home than the Pet Supplies Plus where I purchase Frontline for our dog and cats. I asked the clerk if they carried Frontline or Advantage and he replied that they had something better and cheaper. I thought that was great, but thought it strange that they were breaking up the boxed sets of three and selling each tube separately. There was no product name on the tube, nor any instructions. The clerk told me to apply at the base of the neck and the base of the tail, where the tail and back meet. Now, before I was able to purchase Frontline at the pet supply store, I had always taken either the cat or the dog in to the vet to update their shots in order to purchase the Frontline, and would split a tube among one small dog and two cats. I could buy three tubes at a time then, and one boxed set would last me all summer (three months in Michigan!), if I split the tubes three ways. There were never any adverse reactions to any of those applications. But, my small Porkinese (Poodle, Yorkie, Pekingese mutt) was suffering especially bad this year with fleas, so I bought two tubes and applied one entire tube to the dog, Bugsy, and split a tube between my two beautiful female cats, Jasmine and Nala. I cannot blame the pet store for this nightmare, as I did not tell the clerk that I intended to use the treatment on my cats, also. I am, however, going to return there and tell them this story, so that they will warn anyone purchasing BioSpot for their dog that it is POISON for cats, as the customers may be used to cross treating as I was. Immediately after applying the BioSpot to my older cat, she started slinking around the yard like she does when a thunder storm is coming. I just kinda laughed at her reaction, as the dog and the other cat showed no immediate effects. The last time I saw her, she was slinking off into the bushes, and I assumed that she was just mad at me, and would come out in a little while to eat. In the meantime, my dog started jumping around like a little Mexican jumping bean, which alarmed me. I got out the flea comb and went over every inch of him, thinking he was being bitten. He continued to jump around all night, even waking me, which is nearly impossible to do. I was quite concerned, then, when my older cat did not appear for breakfast, nor for lunch, and my husband and I set out to look for her. I cannot tell you how I felt when we found her lying in the yard behind us, unable to walk, barely able to lift her head, unable to see, no recognition of us - I thought surely she was just minutes from death. And God only knows how long the poor creature had been lying there, waiting for her Mommy to come find her.....I wept in shame. She was twitching uncontrollably, but we gave her a bath anyway and I wrapped her in a towel and rocked her, waiting for her to pass. After a half hour, she was still alive, still twitching everywhere, but alive. I instinctively started giving her diluted milk (which she loves!) from an eye dropper, and continued to do so every fifteen minutes or so, even though she growled and hissed at me and clawed wildly at the air. I thought the milk would coat her stomach as well as flush out her system. I thought briefly of taking her to the vet, but I was so sure that she was going to die, and I was not going to let her die alone, locked in a cage. If I had killed my precious Jasmine, she was going to be allowed the dignity of dying at home, with her loved ones. I have raised three children, with more than their share of breaks, bumps, and bruises, but nothing had prepared me for the pain of watching my innocent little lady suffer for my stupidity! I found somewhere on the Internet that day that vegetable oil rubbed on the spot where the treatment was applied would help neutralize it. My husband bathed the dog, (I would not put down the cat), and we rubbed him and both of the cats down with vegetable oil. I cannot tell you where I read this as I was basically a wreck and looking desperately for any information. After ten hours of twitching, hissing, growling, stumbling, clawing at the air, having milk forced into her, I decided to try to give Jasmine some soft food. As soon as she smelled it, she miraculously got up, walked to the bowl, and ate the entire thing! And she did not vomit and the twitching stopped. In about a half hour, I offered her more food, and, once again, she ate the whole bowl! It is now Tuesday, and Jasmine seems to have almost fully recovered. She will not drink milk (no big deal), is still only eating her soft food, but other than that, seems to be none the worse for wear. She has used her litter box numerous times and everything appears to be normal. I will keep a close eye on her, though, and will check back with you in a month or so. My little dog, however, continues to scratch his ears as if he has fleas. There are no fleas on him. I am going to bathe him again and rub more oil on the spot where the BioSpot was applied. I am grateful and saddened by your website....I ache for all that lost their precious friends and am SO grateful that my kitty seems to be okay. I will NEVER use anything but Frontline again, and will NEVER cross treat cats with dog drops, or vice versa again!
Debbie 9/2/03
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I just used Biospot for the third time on all four of my dogs. I have two pugs, a terrier-poodle mix, and a German Shepard. The terrier-poodle began acting strange almost immediately. He was found hiding in our office (most unusual) and wouldn't come out. He is very lethargic and not himself at all. I immediately looked up BioSpot on the web and saw your website. I bathed all dogs right away and Jingles seems to be feeling somewhat better since then. I just bathed him again in dish soap and hopefully he will be fine. Interestingly enough, this is the third time using the product on all four dogs and the last time the terrier-poodle was somewhat not himself for two days after the treatment. He recovered uneventfully so I didn't really think of the correlation between the Biospot and his lethargy. I will never use this product again and hope that I have not done any long term damage to my dogs. Thanks for providing us with this information.
Debra 9/13/03
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Bio-spot almost killed my three cats. It cost me over $1100 in vet bills to save the cats.
How can I register this incident? I am looking for a class-action lawsuit against the makers of this product. I've heard so my bad things about the product.
Harold 9/22/03
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I just put down my two healthy kittens this morning. They were just 5 months old, brothers. Yesterday, I used Bio Spot on the "boys", as my 9 year old called them. This morning both were unable to walk. Their noses were blue and they were having trouble breathing. I took them to the vet, but it was too late. My daughter is devastated. Is the profit they make really worth the cost in lives? I feel guilty and really mad. Is there a safe product on the market??
Colleen 9/27/03
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DISCLAIMER: Below are messages that I have received from others whose dogs and cats experienced adverse reactions after using flea control products. I have no way of knowing if the information in these messages is factual, or if the products they used were the actual cause of the adverse reactions.
