10. Unsafe Products and Drugs
DO NOT use these on or around a Greyhound.
- ALL flea collars, flea-killing medications, all long-lasting flea dips, Dursban, (chlorphrifos) insecticides, Dichlorvos (DDVP) insecticides, Methoxychlor (DDE), Malathion, or any other insecticides that end in ‘thion
- Proban flea control tablets and oral liquid, Pro Spot 40, and Spotton (fenthion), topical systemic insecticide
- Filarbits Plus heartworm and hookworm preventive
- NEVER get the Pro-Heart six-month shot from your vet. It could prove fatal
- DNP, Task, Telmin/Telmintic, Vermiplex/Anaplex deworming drug
- NEVER use Hartz Blockade.
- Don’t offer foods containing red dyes or beef-basted bones.