STUDY LINKS LAWN CHEMICALS TO CANINE BLADDER CANCER
Perdue College of Veterinary Medicine has completed studies that suggest a link between lawn chemicals and urinary bladder cancer in Scottish Terriers. The controlled research showed that dogs exposed to lawns treated with insecticides and herbicides were at a significant higher risk for transistional cell carcinoma of the bladder wall. The study showed that Scotties are much more suspectible to bladder cancer and recommends that this breed and other high risk breeds stay away from treated lawns. Continued studies are now being done to determine the type of chemical responsible and to survey children living in the same households as the affected dogs. This study is sponsered by the Canine Health Foundation and the Scottish Terrier Club of America.

NEW TICKALERT.COM WEB SITE
There is a new web site TickAlert.com that will inform pet owners and veterinarians about the population of ticks in their area. This web site gives tick forecasts for the emergence of tick adults, nymphs, and eggs for the American Dog Tick, the deer tick, and the Lone Star Tick.

The graph covers the entire year and is quite informative. Information is gathered by zip codes. The sponsor of the web site is the Virbac corporation from Fort Worth, Texas.