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Flea Collars
We've been using Frontline for a long time on our dog. I was wondering
if anyone knew whether there was a flea/tick collar that did the same job and was as safe as the Frontline. That obviously is a more inexpensive way to treat a pet. |
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Flea Collars
Mark1154 wrote:
We've been using Frontline for a long time on our dog. I was wondering if anyone knew whether there was a flea/tick collar that did the same job and was as safe as the Frontline. That obviously is a more inexpensive way to treat a pet. When did Frontline get safe? Try using something a lot less harmful as well as cheaper. http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/Knowle...x?articleid=53 http://www.critterchat.net/diearth.htm http://alsnetbiz.com/homeimprovement/boric_acid.html |
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Flea Collars
Mark1154 wrote:
We've been using Frontline for a long time on our dog. I was wondering if anyone knew whether there was a flea/tick collar that did the same job and was as safe as the Frontline. That obviously is a more inexpensive way to treat a pet. Here is a great article on those flea killers you think are safe: http://www.homevet.com/petcare/docum...leachemfin.pdf All pesticides pose some degree of health risk to humans and animals. Despite advertising claims to the contrary, both over-the-counter and veterinarian-prescribed flea killing topical treatments are pesticides that enter our dogs’ internal organs (livers, kidneys), move into their intestinal tracts, and are eventually eliminated in their feces and urine. Not only that, but the humans and other household animals who closely interact with dogs who have been treated with these chemicals can be affected by the toxins. What happens to the health of all exposed individuals during this systemic absorption and filtration process varies from animal to animal, but the laboratory and field trial results clearly indicate toxicity on the chronic and acute levels. Until recently, foggers, flea collars,powders, sprays, shampoos, and dips containing organophosphates (chlorpyrifos, malathion, diazinon), pyrethrins, synthetic pyrethroids, and carbamates, were the cutting-edge solutions to our flea problems. They were effective, but unfortunately, they also caused disease and sometimes death. Given enough time, most pesticides eventually cause enough human and animal injuries that they are identified as hazards and are removed from the market. While the newest flea products – socalled “spot-on” liquids that are applied monthly to a dog’s skin – are being marketed aggressively by the manufacturers and veterinarians and represented as safe alternatives to their predecessors, the fact is, they are simply newer. All the “active” ingredients in these spot-on preparations – imidacloprid, fipronil, permethrin, methoprene, and pyriproxyfen – have been linked to serious health effects in laboratory animals (see chart, page 20). “The public must recognize that any decision to use a pesticide, or to otherwise be exposed to pesticides, is a decision made in ignorance,” says Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the New York Environmental Protection Bureau. “We do not know the identity of the chemicals to which we areexposed. We cannot make informed individual decisions on the acceptability of those exposures, a basic element in the maintenance and protection of our own health.” Spitzer adds, “The requirements for marketing a new product fall considerably short of providing safety for our animal and human families.” |
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