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

[F, Calla & Luca]

Your dad was wise. Even the weediest lawn, mine, doesn't look too bad when mown.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Well, aside from the fact that weed pollen is an allergy trigger, the roots of the weeds crowd out the roots of the grass and choke it out so that it can't grow and eventually you have no grass and no lawn, just patchy dirt and weeds. The weeds don't have as long a growing season as grass does, so you have nothing but dirt where the weeds will be for most of the year. 

I actually asked my landscaper why I couldn't just plant weeds where the grass gets destroyed from too much wear, and that's what he told me. :) 

[Star and Goldie]

"I actually asked my landscaper why I couldn't just plant weeds where the grass gets destroyed from too much wear"

Haha. That literally made me laugh out loud.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I really did. Clover, I think clover is pretty, lol. But he said I would have big dirt patches most of the year, which means I would have them inside too, thank to JD's feet! 

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

I have tons of clovers right now =/  Zoe loves to roll in them!

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Ohhh that makes sense!  I was complaining all winter about our patchy lawn and was really happy lately that my lawn filled in with the "different type of grass"!   

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Yep! If only the weeds had the same growing cycle as the grass, lol! 

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

AHHHH!  I hate my gardener!  

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I actually should have said, the weeds die back when it gets cold and the grass doesn't, it just goes dormant. That's really the difference, not the growing season. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

They are not necessarily bad and some

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

I'm nervous too.  My gardener sprinkled my lawn last Wednesday with weed killer pebbles, then watered it in.  I didn't know he was going to do it, but at least he told me about it, so I've been watching pooch carefully and not letting him lick or eat the grass and I'm wiping his paws when he comes back in.  How long will that remain toxic for him? It hasn't been applied in many years, so I'm hoping that I can soak the heck out of it and have it become so diluted over the next few weeks that it won't hurt him to stay out alone again and play for an hour or two while I'm on long phone calls with customers. I found myself imagining that Kona was acting strange and wild yesterday and wondered if it was the weed killer making him different.  I'm sure I'm just imagining things because he is fine today, but I'm bummed I let that happen.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

I'm with you Gwyndolyn, nothing is going on my backyard from now on!