An Indiana couple has filed suit against Wal-Mart and Hartz Mountain Corporation.
The suit was filed five months after one of the listed plaintiffs, Mr. David Wilgus, stated in a comment posted on HartzVictims.org he was forced to euthanize his 6-year-old Husky, two days after applying Hartz flea and tick drops to his dog. He and his partner also acquired an $800.00 veterinary bill.
Understandably outraged by the loss of his beloved pet and Wal-Mart’s failure to take any responsibility by upholding their satisfaction guarantee, Wilgus wrote on the back of his car windshield “Hartz and Wal-Mart Killed My Dog”.
We couldn’t agree more. We highly doubt this was Wal-Mart’s first time hearing complaints about Hartz and for Wal-Mart to dismiss this matter is negligent and unconscionable.
Broken Hartz wishes Mr. Wilgus and his partner the best. We offer any assistance we can provide in this matter.
We also thank them for taking the very important step of holding the distributor accountable. All too often these culpable middle-men skirt responsibility while raking in the profits.
The car windshield message is fantastic, but we thought Mr. Wilgus and our constituents may also want to print and (warning: mature content) distribute this flyer. We realize his pet was a dog, but we had already created the graphic for a different incident and think the kitten gets the point across regardless.
Would you like us to personalize a protest flyer for you? We’d love to! Send us the details of your case and include the distributor, product name and EPA registration number, if possible. Let’s take these products off the shelves together.
Email us at brokenhartzpets@gmail.com.
August 2nd, 2012 at 10:27 am
Was this the first time you used this product.I have been using Hartz on my Lab for years and never had a problem with it
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:19 am
Hi, Jane. Thank you for contacting us. First, we wish to make it clear we are not affiliated with the couple mentioned in this post. If you are asking about any of our personal experiences with Hartz, you can read all about the experience some of our affiliates had with a Hartz flea treatment product here:
http://brokenhartz.wordpress.com/the-rite-aid-affair/
In answer to your question, this was the first time these affiliates ever used a Hartz flea treatment product.
We are happy to hear you have not had any problems with Hartz. We wish this was always the case, but even Hartz’ Dr. Melinda Fernyhough has said, in response to the question:
This Q&A with Dr. Melinda can be found here:
http://www.hartzultraguard.com/ask_dr_melinda/Dog_Questions.aspx
As well as a reiteration of this statement in the cat portion of the Q&A:
http://www.hartzultraguard.com/ask_dr_melinda/Cat_Questions.aspx
We also wish to note, though Hartz often refers to these kinds of problems as “allergic reactions”, we strongly disagree. In conclusion, if you have not yet read our mission statement, please do so. It will give you a pretty good idea of Hartz Mountain Corporation’s true nature:
http://brokenhartz.wordpress.com/about
Again, we are happy to hear you have not experienced any Adverse Events with Hartz but we strongly advise you discontinue use; especially considering, according to the EPA, this stuff may not even be necessary:
All above listed EPA comments have come from this page from EPA.gov:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/flea-tick.htm
You can read more of our thoughts on the above quoted EPA material in this post:
http://brokenhartz.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/a-sic-education-tab-part-i/
Lastly, the EPA noted in their Public Advisory from March 2010, that small breed dogs were affected more often than large breed dogs.
We hope the information we’ve provided has helped to answer your question! Stop by any time.
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