Cat owners - Important Product Recall

There have been lots of sudden cat poisionings recently. Makes me wonder how long they've been in the supply chain.
 
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Maybe.. Trouble is a lot of household flea treatments also contain permethryn which is fine as long as you follow the instructions to the letter, but I guarantee people don't read them
 
Thanks for the heads up we have got 3 cats
I hope that the message gets around quickly
It's a bit of a bad mistake that they have made packaging dog strength flea treatment up into treatment for cats
 
Thankfully not applicable to my kitty, but I have passed the information around!
 
neil_g said:
Trouble is a lot of household flea treatments also contain permethryn
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A lot of professional grade flea treatments also contain permethrin, it belongs to the family of synthetic chemicals called pyrethroids and functions as a neurotoxin.

There was a story in the trade press some years ago, a guy did a woman a "favour" after he had sprayed the carpets and soft furnishing,
he gave the cat a light spray over. ( To save the cost of a flea collar / drops I assume) It was dead in the morning!
I always tell people they need to exclude any cats or dogs for 24 hours after the house has been treated.
 
Cobra said:
I always tell people they need to exclude any cats or dogs for 24 hours after the house has been treated.
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Hi

If I used the flea powder, permethrin based, to dust my carpets round the edges, mainly behind the bed and furniture, behind, under wardrobes etc in an attempt to kill off carpet moths, should I be worried about my moggy? Thanks.
 
DorsetDude said:
Hi

If I used the flea powder, permethrin based, to dust my carpets round the edges, mainly behind the bed and furniture, behind, under wardrobes etc in an attempt to kill off carpet moths, should I be worried about my moggy? Thanks.
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I didn't realise you had a moggy in out pm exchange Keith.

As long as it goes down the edge of / under the carpets then it should be fine.
The problem mainly occurs if the cat can walk through it, and then lick it off its paws.
Same goes for dusting a cat with it, it *might* be absorbed through the skin, especially if the cat has a wound on it.

Reading the linked article "Exposure to even small quantities of concentrated permethrin" can cause severe and fatal poisoning in cats."
It would appear that a dog flea treatment was incorrectly labelled as a cat flea product.

Having dug around a little more it now seems that pyrethroid's are no longer recommended for cat flea treatments.
( Its been known for years that its toxic to fish even in small quantities though.)

I will add, I'm not a vet, if concerned, consult your local one.
 
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