A Dog's Approach

10/02/2025

Finally...please stop using these chemicals, there are natural alternatives if necessary but in the most part, if your animal is on a good, species specific diet and healthy, they shouldn't attract such critters. Medicating as a preventative is so dangerous not just to the environment but to our animals too. And please avoid the alternative treatment they're now offering to our animals which they have to ingest, poisoning our animals from the inside 😢

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The standard practice in the UK is to advise a preventative approach, treating pets every couple of months even if they don’t have fleas.

But flea treatments include powerful insecticides that have been found to leach off pet fur – and the hands of their owners – into waterways. A recent study also found that songbirds are inadvertently killing their young by making nests out of contaminated pet fur.

There is growing concern about the impact these treatments are having on biodiversity. Imidacloprid and fipronil, for example, are powerful insecticides: one monthly flea treatment for a large dog contains enough imidacloprid to kill 25 million bees.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/29/vets-urged-to-cut-back-on-flea-treatments-amid-uk-biodiversity-fears

20/10/2024

15/10/2024

🦋Read. That. Again.🦋 Plants are not *alternative* medicine; they are the *original* medicine.

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Research from luminaries like Goethe, George Washington Carver, and Nobel Prize-winner Barbara McClintock reveals the deep intelligence of plants. 🌿Plant neurobiology shows that their capacity for “brain-like” activity is far more developed than we ever imagined. Plants even produce neurotransmitters similar to those in our bodies, neurochemicals that predate human evolution by millions of years.

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