Pet flea treatments polluting Britain's rivers

[Catherine]

We do tend to over treat things. If there are no fleas then why treat them. They are not that hard to get rid of if you catch them right away. Of course that means paying attention to the health of your pet. People are lazy sometimes. They just want to dump chemicals on their pets and forget about them. 

Now that there are dangerous levels of pesticides in the rivers they are going to need to change things. At least  I hope there will be change. I don't want to think about what would happen if there is no change. There has been no long term study about the effects of flea treatments on people or the environment.

I wonder what else we are doing that is causing problems we have never thought about.