Weed killer. Don't worry just questions...

[Jennifer and Jack]

I know we have had this talk before....however, I am in the ICU going home today and of Ouse while I was here I got close to one of the doctors...we were discussing food food dogs, shots etc......now this is a human doctor not a doggie one but she told me that 90 percent of dogs that develop lymphoma come from a yard or home where the grass has weed killer.....I don't fertilize or use weed killer Jack but where my mom lives she doesn't have a choice.....Molly walks on that grass potty....


I told her when I posted this on here people would want actual websites that were valid and she gave them to me on a napkin that house keeping through out....I have been too sick to look but I am going to...do you think there is evidence of this being true??


Kind of freaks me out for Molly and for Jack who is at my moms now and every time I am I. The hospital ....


She told me she lost a golden to lymphoma and this is what she found in her research ....


Thoughts. Btw she feeds Beneful but her dog is 16 years old..that's old for a golden ...I a, going home today so I won't see her again she is just n ICU dr

[Jennifer and Jack]

I showed her our website here..she fell in love...I hope she joins the food group ..I couldn't talk much to explain to her about better dog food since I was on breathing machines but she has the link...hope she looks.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Jennifer, I hope you are doing better now.  Take care of you too:)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Jennifer, it's certain types of broadleaf weed killers that have been linked to lymphoma in dogs (and cancer in people), not fertilizers. There is lots of info on-line about this, I can look for some links or anyone can search themselves...but be sure to look at FACT based websites, NOT chat forums or anecdotal stories in blogs and reviews.

This is the name of the weed killer:  herbicide 2,4-D

[F, Calla & Luca]

Whoops just saw your response after I wrote my own.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Here's an older article from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/04/us/lawn-herbicide-called-cancer-r...

And a subsequent NY Times article from this past August about the FDA's refusal to ban the chemical: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/business/energy-environment/epa-d...

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Facts and Info on herbicide 2,4-D from the Nat'l Pesticide Information Ctr:

http://www.npic.orst.edu/factsheets/24Dgen.pdf

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Does Round Up havd 2,4-D in it?

[Donna K & Quincy]

2,4-D is banned for cosmetic use in Newfoundland., Round up is not banned so I would say no.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Thank you Donna

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

From what I was able to find, it does not. This article indicates that some weeds have become resistant to the active ingredient in Round-up and that in those cases, products that do contain 2,4-D may be more effective:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-usa-agriculture-weeds-...

 

[Donna K & Quincy]

Cosmetic lawn use. LOL, I guess I should have explained that better. You can't have a pretty lawn.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Oh, I understood you perfectly, lol. Your explanation was fine, I was confirming it. 

My problem is not with having a "pretty" lawn, but with having a lawn at all, which you can't really have w/o some form of fertilizing and weed-control, especially when you have a four legged freight-train tearing it up faster than it can grow. And if you don't have grass, you have mud. Mud outside = not so terrible; mud inside= very very bad for doodle mom's sanity.