Gentle, Fair & Responsible Pet Care
To Give Pets A Chance To Live A Vibrant LifeProduct Safety
As a pet owner or a pet care professional, below are some criteria you can use when evaluating products:
- FDA Warnings: Products for which the FDA has issued safety warnings regarding severe adverse reactions—including ataxia, tremors, seizures, death, or other serious reactions.
- Manufacturer Warnings: Products whose own manufacturers have issued warnings regarding severe adverse reactions being associated with the use of their products including neurological or systemic adverse reactions and death.
- FDA Letters to Veterinarians: Products the FDA has specifically cautioned veterinarians about due to significant risks, including seizures, death, or other severe side effects.
- Post-Marketing Reports: Products associated with large numbers of pet owner reports involving serious harm, suffering, or loss. We consider these real-world reports essential, as they reveal actual risk performance outside controlled studies. Some products are associated with 100,000’s++ / millions of pet owners reporting suffering and loss.
- Research & Studies: Scientific findings or independent research indicating an unreasonable risk of severe adverse reactions may exist or be associated with the use of a product.
- Negative Benefit-to-Risk Ratio: Products that offer limited benefit while presenting significant potential harm—particularly when safer or more effective alternatives exist.
- Class Action Law Suits: Products that have been associated with pet injury class action lawsuits may present a higher level of risk, as such legal actions often indicate elevated concerns about the product’s safety or potential to cause injury to pets.
- Unethical or Cruel Testing Practices: Products developed using unusually cruel or excessive animal testing, or companies that engage in or contract for such testing.
- Safety standards should apply across species: products unsafe for human care should not be marketed for use on pets or animals.
Veterinarians, as pet care service providers, must request and only use safe, reliable products. Veterinarians should specify products and standards to deliver the safest and highest quality of care.
Gifted pet-care providers select and support products and procedures that are safe and useful and not use products they see unsafe or not useful.
The content and resources provided on the website are for informational purposes only and are not meant to diagnose, treat, or replace consulting with your veterinarian.
Toxicology Reporting:
Toxicology reporting organizations must remain unbiased and transparent, including clearly reporting the actual products associated with adverse events as described by pet owners. If you don’t see this on the reports of reporting agencies websites to warn the public, then is the agency really producing valid and useful information?
It is best to report to the FDA and to the product manufacturers as well as educating your pet care professionals and other pet owners.
Allergy Testing:
Allergy and Food Intolerance Testing – For any allergy or food intolerance testing to yield accurate results, the animal should be free from neurotoxic chemicals, corticosteroids, and immune-suppressing substances. To ensure the highest accuracy, it may be advisable to discontinue these products—under appropriate professional guidance—and allow sufficient time for the animal’s system to clear before performing any testing.
The content and resources provided on the website are for informational purposes only and are not meant to diagnose, treat, or replace consulting with a veterinarian.