Flea treatment for sensitive terrier

I attended a fascinating webinar on Wednesday about the impact of prophylactic flea and tick treatments. I felt the presenter did not go far enough e.g. by blaming the big pharma /big vet duo for getting people to take out monthly plans including regular insecticidal treatments, but I guess he has to stay impartial.

The damage this is causing our environment is not sustainable. We have banned neonics throughout Europe but still encourage use of similar chemicals on pets. Interestingly, as well as the obvious problems caused by treated dogs swimming and being bathed after treatments ( for over 28 days after treatment), a large amount of pollution comes from people stroking their pets and then washing their hands, thus swilling more insecticide into the water system. Who knows what the chemical is also doing to the pet and its owner.

If you are interested then have a look at this. Scary.

https://wsrt.org.uk/news/insect-declines-pesticides-and-pet-parasiticides-with-dave-goulson
 
I use nexguard for fleas and ticks and worms. It should be every 4 weeks but I tend to do it 6 weekly in tick season and 8 weekly in the rest of the year. Does this also affect the environment?
 
Google it, but mainly through excretion apparently, but not much research yet undertaken so who knows?

I am just an old cynic I guess, but I don’t see any benefit to dosing my dogs with a deadly chemical just in case they get fleas or ticks etc. I have never seen any fleas on my dogs in over 30 years (I don’t have cats, so no doubt that helps) and the occasional ticks are generally found by me and pulled off. The only benefit appears to be in the regular income paid to the vets that promote these regular dosage plans and the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs.

Rant over!
 
druid said:
Tick borne diseases and lung worm can both be fatal
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This is my concern. I never worried too much until friend lost her dog. Had a chat with my lovely trusted independent vet and she advised me that it was unfortunately not uncommon in this area. The practice is not expensive, does not offer the package deals etc that the chains offer and don't push anything.
I did naively think as it was oral it was less bad for the environment.
 
misst said:
This is my concern. I never worried too much until friend lost her dog. Had a chat with my lovely trusted independent vet and she advised me that it was unfortunately not uncommon in this area. The practice is not expensive, does not offer the package deals etc that the chains offer and don't push anything.
I did naively think as it was oral it was less bad for the environment.
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Oral would be my choice (or Injectables) to reduce environmental contamination as much as possible
 
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