I looked up this on a rumor website and it's completely false. Here is the
link:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/swiffer.asp

So rest easy that you can safely use your swiffer with no worries.

On 12/14/05 3:10 AM, "Happy Holidays from Heather" <heathersci@...>
wrote:

> For those of you with animals or small children in the house ...... I
> recently had a neighbor who had their 5-year old German shepherd dog put
> down due to liver failure. The dog was completely healthy until a few
> weeks
> ago. 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 antifreeze
> is
> one of the ingredients. (Actually he was told it's a compound which is
> one
> molecule away from antifreeze). Therefore, just by the dog walking on the
> floor cleaned with the solution, then licking its own paws, 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 .
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