Protect your pets!!!!!

[captainmorgan]

Warning for your animal's health:

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.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

My friend sent this to me. Just for all you furry lovers out there please be careful!!!!

[BWSmith]

Bah

[Stormyva]

That story had me ready to throw out my Swiffer, but then I remembered something like that going around via email a while back.
Although the folks at Snopes have not disqualified the story 100% it does appear to be a hoax.

From Snopes.com:
Origins: So much about this anonymous message purportedly detailing the demise of someone's neighbor's dog and that neighbor's housekeeper's two cats is either wrong or unverifiable that we cannot see how it could reasonably be considered anything but false:

* The message gives no information about its writer or either of the pet owners, and thus provides no avenue through which inquiries can be made to verify its contents. It appears to have been disseminated through its posting to many different dog-related newsgroups and mailing lists, always by a second-hand source who had "received it in e-mail."

* The claims that the cleaning agent used with the Swiffer WetJet is "antifreeze" or "a compound which is one molecule away from" something else are quite similar to a number of other alarmist scares we've seen (such as one about margarine) and are indicative of an uninformed writer's making unwarranted assumptions.

According to P&G's Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), most of the cleaning fluid used in the Swiffer WetJet system is water (somewhere between 90 and 100 percent), with propylene glycol n-propyl ether and isopropyl alcohol making up between 1 and 4 percent each, and the remainder of the solution composed of minor ingredients and preservatives.

Here's a link to the full article....
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/swiffer.asp

[Ravnos]

Yet another email spam hoax. Snopes is your friend. Though, any chemical can be dangerous to your pets if used improperly from Windex to bleach, to chocolate.

Rav

[Stormyva]

Rav... your fingers were a bit faster than mine