What is a Pesticide?
A pesticide is any chemical substance that is designed to kill a living thing that is considered a pest. Pesticides refer to insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides.
What are the Health Effects of Pesticides?
Cancer is by far the most rising concern involving pesticides and pets. Recent studies have shown that dogs living in yards that have been treated with pesticides (particularly 2,4-D) have a higher risk of developing canine malignant lymphoma. In certain breeds, such as the Scottish terrier, the risk of certain cancers can rise by as much as 4 times1.
How Do They Affect My Pet?
Whether you’re using a pesticide indoors (eg. raid) or outdoors (eg. roundup), whether you’re spot treating or using a widespread application, your pet is at risk to contact the pesticide. Where a pesticide is applied, the area up to 15 meters in all directions is generally considered contaminated as well. Even small scale applications can contaminate a large area, increasing the likelihood of your pet being affected. By walking on a lawn recently treated with pesticides, a pet can become contaminated. Non-target species, such as birds can also spread the pesticides to your pets. Watch for signs and notices indicating recently treated areas.
Pesticides and Poisoning
It is only logical that pets are at a higher risk from the use of pesticides. Pets, like children, are lower to the ground and they spend a lot of time in contact with areas that may be contaminated. Many things also go into their mouths after being in contact with a contaminated surface. Self-grooming, and playing with toys also increases exposure.
Pets are inquisitive and playful by nature – by simply playing in a yard, park or body of water that has been treated with a pesticide, your pet will be at risk of exposure. Acute symptoms of exposure to pesticides can include strange behaviour, stumbling, excess salivating, vomiting and seizure. Long-term effects can range from liver and kidney damage to neurological damage.
Remember:
Keep your pets off recently treated lawns!
If you do use pesticides, keep your pet off of the treated area for the recommended amount of time.
Applying pesticides in your yard increases their presence in your home.
Pets are at a higher risk of contamination because they are closer to the ground and very likely to lick or chew things, such as toys, that are contaminated.
What Can I Do to Protect My Pet?
Consider not using pesticides in your yard. Cosmetic pesticide use is not necessary and is causing health issues in people and in pets. There are alternatives to using pesticides.
Provincial and municipal pesticide by-laws exist across Canada and are by far the best protection against pesticides.
According to Sanela Begic ...
ReplyDelete« PETS are at a higher risk of contamination because they are closer to the ground and very likely to lick or chew things, such as toys, that are contaminated. » ?!?!
Are you out of your mind ?!?!
You silly lunatic ... CHILDREN, AND PETS, ARE NOT AT RISK. http://wp.me/P1jq40-2ha
No one needs to worry about CHILDREN and PETS playing in pesticide-treated grass since ALL pest control products are HEALTH CANADA APPROVED, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, PRACTICALLY NON TOXIC, and CAUSE NO HARM, even to CHILDREN, and even to PETS.
There are dozens of jurisdictions that HAVE KEPT CHILDREN AND PETS SAFE by STOPPING or RESCINDING or LIMITING Anti-Pesticide PROHIBITION, or by granting Professional Lawn Care businesses with an EXCEPTION STATUS. http://wp.me/P1jq40-1JO
It is a MYTH that CHILDREN, and PETS, are somehow at greater risk from exposure than adults because they play closer to the ground and their bodies are still developing.
Since your intentions are DESPICABLY TO EXPLOIT CHILDREN AND PETS AS WEAPONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TERROR AND ANTI-PESTICIDE PROPAGANDA, it comes as NO SURPRISE that you believe you have some expertise regarding pest control products, when, in fact, you have NONE.
Only Health Canada has the ESSENTIAL EXPERTISE concerning pest control products, and certainly NOT you and your organizations.
The safety assessments of pest control products by Health Canada DO take CHILDREN and PETS into consideration.
These assessments DO consider CHILDREN’s and PETS’s physiology, behaviours, and habits while playing on treated grass.
Typically, pest control products like KILLEX TURF HERBICIDE CONCENTRATE, which contains the ingredient 2,4-D, the Health-Canada-Approved label states ― Keep Off Area Until Dry.
http://pesticidetruths.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Label-Killex-Turf-Herbicide-Concentrate-2011-08-09-Green-Cross.pdf
A few minutes after the application has dried, pest control products are NO THREAT TO CHILDREN OR PETS.
ReplyDeleteThere is NO problem with CHILDREN or PETS playing on a dried treated surface after a pest control application.
Pest control products are applied at VERY LOW DOSES, and DO NOT PRESENT A CONCERN TO CHILDREN ... and PETS ... and even people.
After a pest control product DRIES ON THE LEAF, it is DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, TO DISLODGE RESIDUES OFF THE LEAF SURFACE.
In August 1984, according to Dr. Stephenson ( with Mark K. Sears and Dean G. Thompson ) ―
« In field studies ... less than 5 per cent of [ 2,4-D Herbicide ] originally applied could be dislodged with a cheese-cloth wipe at day 0. DISAPPEARANCE OF DISLODGEABLE RESIDUES WAS VERY RAPID. Less than 0.01 per cent of the applied chemical was dislodgeable after 1 day in turf that received 18 mm of rainfall 1 hour after spraying. Residues in turfgrass that received no rainfall required 7 days to dissipate to the same level. In a study in which the clippings were not removed, the disappearance of dislodgeable residues, when the turf was mowed at 3, 7, and 11 days after application, was nearly as rapid as in unmowed turf. »
Dr. Gerald R. Stephenson was Professor, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph. http://wp.me/p1jq40-5DD
Moreover, there are NO VALID REPORTS of pest control product problems with CHILDREN.
There are NO VALID REPORTS of pest control product problems with PETS.
Begic, representing Canadian Cancer Society and its SHIELD Saskatchewan Environmental Society, is INTERFERING WITH PARTISAN POLITICS, and has placed these organizations IN VIOLATION OF TAXATION LAWS.
The public will now be directed to COMPLAIN ABOUT YOU BY CONTACTING BUSINESS, FUND-RAISING, GOVERNMENT, and TAXATION AGENCIES ! http://wp.me/P1jq40-1PE
THE NON-PROFIT CHARITY STATUS OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE INVESTIGATED AND HOPEFULLY REVOKED.
All of your statements and activities are being archived for the purpose of GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION, or TO HAVE YOUR BRAINS SUED OUT.
If PROHIBITION is ARBITRARILY IMPOSED in Saskatchewan, you and your organizations will be held accountable for the CARNAGE CREATED BY BUSINESS FAILURES since ANTI-PESTICIDE PROHIBITION will DESTROY the Professional Lawn Care Industry. http://wp.me/P1jq40-43B
Thank you for drawing attention to yourself.
Your organizations have now been listed among CANADA’S PROMINENT ANTI-PESTICIDE & ENVIRONMENTAL-TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. http://wp.me/P1jq40-48S
You and your organizations deserve the SPOTLIGHT OF SCRUTINY and the TERROR OF THE COURTS.
Have a nice day.
WILLIAM H. GATHERCOLE AND NORAH G http://pesticidetruths.com/ http://wp.me/P1jq40-2rr