Dog stuck to plastic crate after flea treatment

[Beanie]

VIN News

Auggie's breeder sent this to me. YIKES. tl;dr of the article is that the spot treatment of Advantage came into contact with the dog's plastic crate, which caused the plastic to melt, and then the dog got stuck to the melted plastic.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Dhaliwal noted that the dog had been unable to eat, drink or relieve itself for 15 hours by the time he managed to free it with a tool normally used to scrape excess plaster from drywall.
The white dog had a patch of dark gray plastic about 6 inches by 4 inches stuck to its fur. Following the advice of representatives at Bayer, Dhaliwal said, he removed the remaining plastic using the contents of another two tubes of Advantage. Once freed, the dog was fine.

The chemical (benzyl alcohol) is in wide use, found in hundreds of cosmetic formulations including baby toiletries, mascaras, hair dyes and skin care products, according to the article “Benzyl Alcohol Allergy: Importance of Patch Testing Personal Products,” published Feb. 15, 2006, in the journal Dermatitis.

It's used in mascaras, too? Yikes!

[Cheetah]

That is scary!

[Saeleofu]

Wow. O.O

Following the advice of representatives at Bayer, Dhaliwal said, he removed the remaining plastic using the contents of another two tubes of Advantage. Once freed, the dog was fine.

Wouldn't it have been cheaper and easier, and probably safer, to just shave the patch of fur?

[cricketsmygirl]

I don't and have never liked advantage. I used it once when I was younger and ended up with 2 dead cats. I've heard other horror stories as well.

[Zoom]

That's not cool...I wonder why that reaction happened? Obviously the tubes are made out of plastic and the Advantage doesn't melt them...

[bubbatd]

My question too Zoom !!

[Saeleofu]

I would guess it's a different kind of plastic. Not all plastics are created equal.

[smkie]

Victor's plastic hunting collar touched where the treatment was put, just the edge of it, and it turned to orange plastic goo on his fur. I was seriously creeped out. THis is so sad that it happened to this dog like that.

I don't remember the brand name that I used on Victor..i think Zoom know. It wasn't advantix however. ..that much i do remember. Probably a common ingredient in all of it.

[puppydog]

Sigh! Do you know how many products will strip paint, bubble plastic and peel wood and yet we use them on ourselves everyday. It is called a chemical reaction. Dogs are not made of plastic.

[Miakoda]

I, and many others, doubt the validity of this argument. Hell, we even tested this since this article came out. Nothing.

Chances are the dog got in glue and the owner had no idea. There has never ever ever been a report such as this one. One would think if Advantage was causing such reactions, more than this single incident would've been reported.