Warning for dog owners
We are dog lovers and owners, have two ship tzus. As responsible dog owners we make sure our kids are taken care of with their shots and medicines. We have used Frontline Plus for ticks and fleas for many years, used monthly. Last week we went to the vet and instead of selling us Frontline Plus they sold us Frontline Tri Tak which they said was the newest product, which we found out later that the reason they did was because they did not have enough space to keep both products. This past Monday, my wife applied the medicine to both dogs around 2PM. Immediately the dogs started acting different, very hyper. Later they started barking for no reason, twitching, licking, scratching, etc. we continued to try to calm them down still not relating the issues to the medicine. They sleep with us and it only got worse as the night went on. At midnight, we called the pet hospital and they told us to wash the dogs where we applied the medicine. This helped but to get them to rest somewhat we had to continually pet their necks. Around 4:30 AM we all were able to get to sleep until about 7:30.
It took until the following night until the kids were completely back to normal. Very frightening and we were scared as to what to do. We went to the vet and told them the issue, and they exchanged the medicine thru their other office. I told them very strongly, if you get my drift, that they should remove this product from their shelves and burn it. If it affected one dog this way that as a responsible vet they would not want to sell it to anyone else. They said they could not do that, that this might be an isolated case. I told them they should care more. We have also called Frontline and told them. They gave us a case number and said we should probably not use that medicine again. We said "really".
We are telling all of our friends about this experience and felt compelled to warn other dog owners. Do not use Frontline Tri Tak.
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