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

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Thanks Karen, I am going to tell our gardner to stop all spraying for weeds in our backyard.  He only sprays the flower beds with Round Up, but I am known to have a major "worry gene" and I'm not taking any chances.  I will take Barbara B's advice and use Vinegar!  

[F, Calla & Luca]

It was good advice. I think I may go around with a bucket of vinegar and a turkey baster this year.

[F, Calla & Luca]

No, Round up is glyphosate. It will kill all growing plants. I used to think it was safer than 2,4D and it probably is in some ways. I believe it does not persist in the soil nearly as long. But read this, doesn't exactly want to make you sprinkle it on your food (the company claimed it was a safer than table salt but we know that's not great for you either) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

You may also want to change the title of this discussion to avoid freaking people out, since most people do not read all the responses and may not see my comment that it is weed-killer, not fertilizer, (and certainly not all"grass that is fertilized", lol) that may be cancer causing.  

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think it may well come from the weed killers, namely those with 2,4 D which I've warned about before., probably in the garden group. I use practically nothing but grass seed on the lawn now. My dogs are more important than a perfect lawn.

[Stella]

Sorry to hear that you have been unwell again. Hope you are doing better now.

[Barbara B., Sasha & Oliver]

I do not fertilize my back yard where the doodles, I do like to kill the weeds that pop up and I use just plain houshold vinegar in a spray bottle and that works fantastic.  I have been using it for a while now and totally satisfied.  I buy white vinegar by the gallon :)

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

I just googled "weeds on grass" and realized I have a lot of them on my lawn.  Thought it was just a part of the lawn =/.

why are weeds bad and why do we have to kill them?  

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Sorry I know I sound really dense asking but I've never had my own lawn before DH and I bought our house 

[Marnie, Stanlee's Mom]

You don't sound dense, you sound interested in educating yourself so kudos, Joanna!  Having a yard has its pluses and minuses, this being a minus.  My front yard isn't bad but my backyard.....well, if mud were green it would look great! 

My dad used to say "if it's green, mow it" and was thrilled when there weren't any bald spots in the yard because the weeds filled them in so I'm probably not the girl to ask.  LOL  When there are weeds that I can see, I use a good old fashioned weed tool to just get the whole thing up out of the ground, roots and all. 

 

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

LOL!

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

I use that tool a lot, so I don't know why my gardener cared to kill them.  I'm not very picky about weeds.  I like a messy garden, just like I like a messy scruffy doodle. 

This makes me think I care more about my pets than my parents cared about their 6 kids.  We used to run outside to play in the mist of the crop duster airplanes that dropped poison on the town to kill mosquitos in the 60's. And I was repeatedly hospitalized for chronic pneumonia from second hand smoke of relatives and doctors.  Hopefully my puppy survives my oversight on this one application of weed killer.