Soresto Dog Collar - Page 1

WARNING! I purchased a Soresto dog collar for my 6 year old 92 lb male black lab and for my wife's dog Oscar, which is a 10 year old 3.5 lb Yorkie. At first we didn't notice any changes with their behavior but within about a month Oscar's (Yorkie) health began to deteriorate. He became very lethargic and eventually lost all muscle control in his legs and body. We thought at first it was his age catching up with him. Eventually it got to the point that he couldn't get up to eat or go to the bathroom and we thought we were going to have to put him down. We tried to think of anything that could have been causing this, food, etc. and then remembered the one thing that had changed was the Soresto collar we put on him. We took it off and by the next day he began to have more energy and within 2 days he was fully recovered and back to normal again.
Our black lab (Remmington) had not shown any noticeable symptoms so we just though Oscar's condition was because Oscar was so small, but within 2 weeks after taking the collar off of Oscar, Remmington had a 3-4 minute seizure. We immediately took the collar off of him and bathed him and he has not had any more seizures but it has only been about a month since we removed it. We had not heard of any warnings on Soresto before we purchased it but since have read many posts from other dog owners with similar experiences. It really sucks that the manufacturer is not more proactive about pulling the product off the shelves or at a minimum warning potential consumers about the potential risk associated with this product. We came within a day of putting Oscar down and it makes me wonder how many dog owners have actually put their dog down not realizing the collar was possibly poisoning the dog. Hopefully this post helps someone to avoid the same fate our dogs encountered with this collar.
 

What kind of dog collar is it...Metal...Material...for Fleas...what?

Where did you buy it?

http://www.seresto.com/en/home/

 

Tick collar??

 

Dude people have moved on from tick collars and externals to aurals.

 

 

Old news here ... Seresto collars are known bad actors and have caused neurological problems in many dogs ... the oral products such as the most recent vet approved ( makes them more money ) dog killer Bravecto are even worse. Go to Facebook for the Bravecto story and the role call of the dead and dying dogs. Plenty of horror stories about Seresto on this forum and others. Do your research before using any pest control product on your dogs and never trust your veterinarian to do anything that is not in his or her best financial intetest.

Aurals???

vk4, while I would never put one of those on my dog, they are pushed heavily in the states by vets. They are not "old school" as you make it sound.

Oral then.

My dogs sleep on my bed, external treatments made me sick not to mention my dogs swim every day and made externals useless, so I switched, no more problems, no more fleas, no more ticks.

 

Although for the newbs daily fleecing is essential for tick control regardless of what chemical treatments you use.

Oral. Got it.

Keep in mind, they don't repel anything. They simply keep enough pesticide circulating in your dog's bloodstream to make anything that bites them die. I don't prefer to keep pesticides in my dogs' bloodstreams, so we go old school with oils, lint rollers (white tape works great), but we have deep freezes and don't fight ticks all year.Knock on wood, never had fleas on mine- have had them on a few rescues, and Capstar fixed that in a hurry, and safely.

In a perfect world we would not use such things, a dog with a paraylisis tick will slowly paralyse from the back legs creeping all the way to its throat until it asphyxiates, you compromise your ideals to maximise protection with shit that is clinically proven to work.

Trouble with all the hippy wholistic shit is that it is a bigger money making con than big pharma.

Yeah, whoever controls the lint roller is really a money making con ;)

Follow the money to the pockets of the veterinarians and pesticide makers. Thousands of dogs die each year as a result of vaccines and pesticide poisoning. The makers and sellers of these extremely profitable products are quick to point out their efficacy but lie and cover up the damages the very same products cause. Bravecto and Seresto are but two products that have killed and sickened dogs by the thousands in the last year.