Can Laundry Detergent, specifically Tide harm your animals...READ THIS

[Guest guest]

This is a rather startling story and you really should go to the web site listed

below... there are pictures and some may find them pretty disturbing. If

commercial laundry detergent is so alkaline that it will do this to a dog....

doesn't it make sense that it is not a safe product for anyone! Don't you think

everyone has the right to know this and to make a choice to switch to a safer

product.?

 

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2 On Your Side: Detergent and dogs don't mix

May 7, 2003

GRESHAM - We have a warning for pet owners.

A woman said her dog suffered serious chemical burns from a laundry detergent

most people would consider harmless.

KATU's 2 On Your Side reporter Ed Teachout has the story.

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?id=57295 (click here to see just what

happened to this dog)

 

___________You wouldn't think laundry soap could be harmful to your pet just by

getting on their skin.

 

But this Wednesday one Basset Hound's misadventure is a good warning to all pet

owners.

 

Seven-year old Scarlet is recovering after getting into a particular laundry

detergent that many folks have at home.

 

" A tremendous skin reaction over her entire bottom half of her body, you see her

quiver when I touch her, " said Dr. Chuck Hawkins who is a Veterinarian.

 

Connected to an IV, Scarlet is sedated and she hasn't eaten for two days.

 

" You can see where the spread marks are where the detergent had spilled. It

spilled inside the cage, " said Hawkins.

 

The bottle of liquid Tide was on the floor near the cage, somehow Scarlet got to

it and got the lid off.

 

After perhaps hours of lying in the Tide Marci Cook found her dog bleeding and

in pain.

 

Veterinarians aren't sure if it's a chemical burn or skin reaction.

 

The label's only warning is to 'keep out of reach of children and to flush with

water if it gets in your eyes.'

 

Cook said she didn't think laundry detergent was that harmful so she didn't have

it stored up high with other chemicals.

 

" Now I know to move it up but I think this is harmless. I use it on my clothes I

didn't think this would have any impact on a dog, I mean its soap and now I know

it's not like soap, " said Marci Cook.

 

Cook said Tide hasn't given her vet any information on the chemicals inside the

detergent.

 

" I was able to talk to a pharmacists contracted to the company but I haven't got

a call back from the toxicologist at the company, " said Cook.

 

While Scarlet rests, her owner has a message to all pet owners.

 

" Don't leave any chemicals or any detergent - anything on the floor where dogs

can get to it. Because I don't want anyone to go through what I've had to, " said

Cook.

 

Late Wednesday afternoon the makers of Tide, Proctor and Gamble, sent KATU a

written statement.

 

It said their safety experts have been in contact with Dr. Hawkins.

 

But Hawkins said a toxicologist for the company called him late Wednesday. Which

is about an hour after we contacted Proctor and Gamble.

 

 

 

Robbie Wigley

 

 

 

Ana Gazawi

 

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