Memorials

 

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"Phoebe"

February 1992 - October 1998

"an exceptional beauty!"

Phoebe was quite beautiful! Her veterinarian (DOGtor!) even told us that she was "an exceptional beauty"!

Phoebe had her first seizure about a week after we gave her her first dose of Advantage. The vet had heard that this could happen in geriatric cats, but never 5-year old Pugs, so she was treated as epileptic. Phoebe died a year and a half later. We had an autopsy done, andwe were told that Phoebe actually had PDE.

It seemed to just be a weird coincidence that the first symptom appeared right after using Advantage.

Needless to say, we were a bit unsure about using that product again, even though we know that she died from something unrelated. We hadn't heard of any other instances where these flea prevention products were harmful, so I think we figured we were over-reacting. Even so, we never put Advantage on Phoebe again and swore we would never use it on any other Pugs.

Michael Hamlin