Is Hartz Fleas Collar That Dangerous?

Question

Hi

I been reading that Hartz fleas collars that you buy in stores are dangerous and can harm your pets. Three of my cats, my dog are wearing hartz fleas collars, it been almost a week, they are all fine. If Hartz fleas collars are dangerous, then why are my animals are doing great? Any feedback here?

Answer 1

Flea collars are the most useless form of flea prevention!! As a veterinary assistant, and vet school student i can honestly tell you they arn't worth a dime. Flea collars are basically coated in organophosphates which are dangerous chemicals and some animals can be highly allergic to them. Many people use flea collars as a cheap way to control fleas, when in fact all they are doing are wasting their money. A flea collar ONLY controls fleas from the face down to the shoulder blades!! Fleas mostly tend to congregate at the base of an animals tail and on the underside of their tummy anyways so a flea collar really doesnt do any good at all. ( and they are most effective at 1-3 weeks, but after that they dont even control fleas at the face.) *Sighs* I could rant about these useless things all day. But back to the safety of the flea collars...as with any collar that does not have a safe release, there is always the possibility of your animal getting hung up on something and choking itself. The chemicals the collar is comprised of is dangerous enough however. I highly encourage you to look up organophosphates on the internet and see for yourself how dangerous they really can be.

Answer 2

yes Hartz Fleas Collar are dangerous to cats... I won't forget my experience with it last year, I put the collar on my cat one day, then next day, i had to remove the collar and voila there's a red hot spot where my cat has sratched himself to bleed and I had to take him to the vet for a proper treatment and will never buy any flea collars for any pet now and in the future, i will turn my nose up on any hartz products... I am paying a lot of attention to Vet's products, they're more safe and lately i have no problems being on Revolution.

Answer 3

A lot of times all it takes is 1 incident of something bad for it o be blown out of proportion. What was the situation you heard about? Is there proof to support it? What were the details. Could have been someone misusing the product such as the animal was too young, or the animal was too small for that size collar? As in 1 for a 100lb dog used on a 10 lb dog.
There was also the story about Greenies being harmful to dogs. I have given my 5 yr old Akita 1 a week for about 3 years and she's fine. So...
Ask your vet if you are concerned. That's always the best source of info and advice.

Answer 4

All Hartz products are iffy. I wouldn't ever put that on my pets. Not to mention even though your pets are doing fine they probably still have fleas, just not near their neck. I hate to say it but at my office we see so many animals with flea collars on and they're completely covered in fleas. You should try a product like advantage, frontline, or revolution.

Answer 5

well i can only tell you from personal experience that i had 6 cats and i put hartz flea collars on all of them ...4 of them were fine, however, 2 of them got so sick that the worse of the 2 went into seizures the next morning after i put them on and i had her in the emergency vet clinic for a whole day on iv's and her whole system had to be flushed i will never in my life use another hartz product on my babies i never would reccomend hartz again

Answer 6

Very dangerous!!

We put one on our cat years ago and he didn't like it and did a cirque de soliel type of neck twist and licked it and ended up in a coma at the emergency vet! He was alright after about a week, and we had over $2,000. vet bill to pay.

The vet said the collars are very dangerous -- insecticide and other things including formeldyhyde (toxic and cancer causing) in the collars then and they seem to still be the same.

Some vets don't know if they're dangerous or not, but the ones who do know are very upset with people who use them.

Answer 7

You're much better off using the liquid type of flea killer that you put on the skin behind their neck. You can get it from the vet and it's much more effective and safer, and it's only about $13 a month. I guess it all depends on how much your pet is worth to you.

Answer 8

I don't really like putting any flea collars on my cat. He always get's a rash around his neck so I just stick to the flea medicine my vet gives me. So just watch their necks for rashes.

Answer 9

my animals wore hartz for years and they were o.k. if the animals have lots of fleas they don;t work that good. but ti keep fleas off them there ok...

Answer 10

think about it this way, do you have the same allergies as your Uncle Pete? or Great Grand-dad Joe? Not all bodies and immune systems are the same...