44.000 ADVERSE REACTIONS REPORTED FROM AVANTAGE/REVOLUTION in 2008

That is only the reported stats from 1 year! I have seen animals with burns from the onsite application but didnt report, how about the scores of others that didnt?

Reactions range from skin irritation TO SEIZURE TO DEATH

I once received a 7 out of 10 rating on knowledge from a woman that i warned of the dangers of  spot flea treatments. She thought i wasnt aware of how safe it was as tested by the company or else the product wouldn't be on the market.
In holistic medicine, we dont believe in poisoning our pets by making pesticides pump through their blood.
I told her to read the warning: hazardous to domestic animals and pets. If it is killing the very resilient flea, what exactly are long term ramifications for your pet??
Unfortunately, many animals and kittens and puppies have given their lives dying with painful neurological convulsions being overdosed by this stuff in the name of keeping fleas off of our pets in some nazi-like laboratory of greed and misplaced values.
Fleas feed off of unhealthy pets, flea infestations on a pet indicate a sick or dying or very ill animal. Keep your pet healthy with proper diet and supplements and exercise and you wont see many fleas.
Once in a while treatment is ok.  By why on this green earth would you use a neurotoxin pesticide when it is white with snow and the grass is barren and the cycles of fleas are dormant?
Treat your yard with nemotodes. simple.
If your home is infested, Fleabusters has a natural boric acid salt. It will dehydrate fleas and eggs.
I would keep my animals off of treated areas until vacuuming 24 hours later so they dont lick their pads as common sense goes a long way.

We believe what we are fed on commercials because a multi billion dollar company paid for advertising?
Well, if you wont believe me finally the EPA which i have to say is often slow to catch on and really has a load of inherent problems but has the trust of the public finally announced the dangers of pet flea treatments. Some reading for the skeptics...
in EPA's pesticide question and answer database:

"Increased Scrutiny of Flea and Tick Control Products" 23 June 2009

www.epa.gov/opp00001/health/flea-tick-control.html

Further reading in: Journal of American Veterinary Medicine Association May 15 2009

Poor Litkat was killed, Twiggy/.Snow White might be on her way, the many others...

It is truly devastating, this bright light that makes this horrific world a much sweeter place, becomes a light extinguished by a misdiagnoses or an inability to rehome an animal.
This is all over the world, millions killed in US alone at city shelters.
I am thinking of sweet little Patsy, Princess, Valentine, Blueberry, it is endless. The planet is left with a void of the places they once filled.
Litkat was a 6 year old female dumped by her guardian, blue-grey, a bit overweight, patient and loving.
She had a pouch that almost felt like a fluid pouch after administering sub-q fluids that flopped around her underarm. It felt nothing like cancer, soft and mushy, very gelatinous. She was not put up for adoption for this by the shelter, was declined by SPCA for this and also declined by a bay area rescue. THIS IS FAT DISCRIMINATION FOR CATS. As she wasn't diabetic, didn't have heart issues, but this gushy mass was a probable lipoma. She patiently waited in a cage for 1 month, was never sent to the available rooms but as the shelter tried to see what they could do.  In the end she was killed and placed in the heap of carcasses in a steel barrel in a freezer.
Litkat would run to the front of her tiny cage to shower you with affection and love and although due to the scores of other animals to attend to, i couldnt spent much time with her, she never complained when i shut the cage door but just very acceptingly went back to lie down on her flimsy towel.
People know not what they do. The masses are ignorant to the suffering that they cause. If the owner knew her fate, would she still have dumped her or is the owner under one of the biggest misconceptions in San Francisco that we are a no-kill city? WRONG! SPCA also puts animals to sleep...

Twiggy, whom I call Snow White, a little one year old, Siamese cross, sweeter than cherry pie, makes muffins all day long when you visit her was first thought to have scabies, then an allergy, now a genetic disorder will most likely be offed in two weeks. She has not responded to treatment and it has been several months so they are now considering killing her.
She is warm the touch and itchy quite frequently but never once was the corn fed crap of Purina ever addressed as to how this shit diet exacerbates her issues.
She sheds like snow, which is why i call her Snow White and is believed by SFVS to have a genetic skin disorder that does not allow her to produce skin. She is being pumped with steroids, ivermectin (for what, i dont know) and NOT ONCE has diet, EFA's supplements or nutrition ever been discussed.
I have offered my allergy experience information to Dr Scarlett with no answer. I have also offered vets names that have experience with cases unsolved by the stodgy traditional, callous medical paradigm.
It is yet to be seen if the world will succumb to a dismal shade of depressing grey, a black hole or void, where her bright little spirit shone on the earth. she has two weeks, then they assess killing her.

Cat with Mysteriously Bloody Stools

Hello, my cat Zoey is having blood in her stool for 3 months now. The vet has given her antibiotics, steroids and now she is on a stool softener. Now and then she has a lot of blood in her stool, but it seems to be less since we started her on the stool softener. We just got more of the softener for her for next 3 months . I was wondering what can I be giving her to help her heal inside. I know that the aloe vera is a very good soother for the digestive system for people, but can I give it to a cat?     Danuta

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Hi Danuta! Before I could recommend anything I would need to know what diagnostics were run on your kitty. Also, was a fecal sample sent 'out' to a lab? Vets offices often miss giardia or certain parasites which shows up sometimes as bloody stool. In some parts of the country this would cost upwards of $140 so you would know if it was in house or sent out to a lab for analysis. Does your vet think this is irritable bowel, colitis? idiopathic? Are there other symtpoms? Sounds like if stool softener is making it better, she is constipated? If she is constipated I would add canned pumpkin to her diet 1-2 tsp twice daily. This can also be put in a syringe with flax seed oil. What color is the blood? Is it bright red? Does it have mucous? Is she straining so hard that it could be broken blood vessels? I would need all this to determine how to better assist you. Blood in feline stool could be a whole host of different things. Aloe vera is listed as toxic to pets, however acemannan which is a compound found in aloe vera has been used for viral issues, t-lymphocytes and interferon building. This has shown very promising for FIP, FELV and FIV. Aloe can also be a digestive tract irritant and laxative and some health food brands will filter out this irritant but i would air on the side of caution at the moment since we dont have enough information and not give to her at the moment. If you buy aloe juice with anthraquinone filtered out this will take out the laxative effect of aloe and this could be ok. It is much more expensive form of aloe, and tastes like spring water. Very often food allergy shows up as blood in stool as well. The ingredient(s)she might be allergic to could be causing irritation along her digestive tract. My suspicion has to do with diet, what brands are you feeding? Many commercial brands such as fancy feast have a lot of irritants and could cause a whole host of problems with the digestive tract that could lead to irritable bowels. Does she ever have diarrhea? Vomit? What is the stool like? Runny? Your vet clearly does not use holistic medicine as he is masking issue with steroids. A natural home prepared diet free of pesticides, chemical additives, herbicides specifically prepared for feline needs with protein, taurine, bone meal, calcium  and organic ingredients is best to eliminate and heal digestive issues. Once I know what you are feeding, and if she is constipated, is there mucous in stool, is blood intermittent, what diagnostics were run, what does the blood look like? what the diagnosis is and what other symptoms i might be able to be of better assistance to you within reason as email has its limitations. But I might be able to recommend books and help direct you in research, supplements and dietary issues. I would also add a good expensive, healthy yogurt to her diet with plenty of healthful bacteria. A good probiotic product made for humans works too! Did she respond to the steroid at all? Does she have any other issues? Itchy skin? Shanti

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I do not like the pharmaceutical industry but to live in this world of machismo and barbarianism one must contemplate a life meditating in the Himalayas  or anti-depressants and sleep aids to live to fight another day to protect against the most evil of all - mankind...

To become a man in Denmark, you must slaughter hundreds of pilot whales in a group ceremony and fill the seas with blood. lovely message to teach our youth...
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