----- Original Message -----
From: Marshall Dudley
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: CS>[OT] cross-posting warning for animal owners
I would not put much faith in the urbanlegends site, either they have been
bought off, or their research is lacking.
They also claim that a letter that was sent to a committe about aspartame
being poisonous was a scam (I actually followed up on this and they claimed the
person sending the letter did not exist and the letter was a hoax, yet I talked
with her and verified it was not a scam.), and that aspertame is a proven
healthy product. yeh right! After seeing that one, I no longer give what they
say any validity.
Marshall
Alaina wrote:
I saw this on another list and its a scam people are saying..
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_swiffer_wetjet.htmI'm not a fan of
Porter & Gamble so I dont use it...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Tighe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: CS>[OT] cross-posting warning for animal owners
This is from a Rhodesian Ridgeback list. Re: The Swiffer Wet Jet and your
Pets
Permission to cross post
From a Pennsylvania rescue list::
I recently had a neighbor who had to have their
5-year old German
Shepherd dog put down due to liver failure. The dog was
completely healthy
until a
few weeks ago, so they had a necropsy done to see
what the cause was.
The
liver levels were unbelievable, as if the dog had
ingested poison of
some
kind. The dog is kept inside, and when he's outside,
someone's with
him, so
the idea of him getting into something unknown was
hard to believe. My
neighbor started going through all the items in the
house. When he
got to
the Swiffer Wetjet, he noticed, in very tiny print,
a warning which
stated
"may be harmful to small children and animals." He
called the company
to ask
what the contents of the cleaning agent are and was
astounded to find
out
that anitfreeze is one of the ingredients. (actually
he was told it's
a
compound which is one molecule away from
anitfreeze).
Therefore, just by the dog walking on the floor
cleaned with the
solution,
then licking it's own paws, and the dog eating from
its dishes which
were
kept on the kitchen floor cleaned with this product,
it ingested
enough of
the solution to destroy its liver.
Soon after his dog's death, his housekeepers' two
cats also died of
liver
failure. They both used the Swiffer Wetjet for quick
cleanups on their
floors. Necropsies weren't done on the cats, so they
couldn't file a
lawsuit, but he asked that we spread the word to as
many people as
possible
so they don't lose their animals.
