DOG lovers beware. Your friendly pet may bring back more than a mouldy old
bone when he bounds in from the garden. His paws could be dripping with
poisons.
Researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency wanted to know if pet
dogs pick up pesticides from newly treated lawns and carry them in on their
coats and paws. Preliminary results suggest that pesticide residues on dogs can
be a hundred times higher than typical background levels.
“People apply these pesticides all the time. I wanted to find out how much is
actually being tracked in by the dog,” says Marsha…
