04-30-2018, 08:52 AM
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here other than to point out inconsistencies that make me uncomfortable. If he casually round-upped a cat on the neighbor's property he must have also even more casually round-upped plants on that same property. Not saying anybody is lying but the story relies heavily on a one-off event where the cat gets an almost lethal dose of an almost innocuous herbicide with no mention of the infinitely greater and more likely collateral damage to plants. This is not about how much you like your cat vs how much you like your plants. If someone killed my pet I would not consider the damage to plants, but that's just in the heat of the moment. Remove the emotion and one is left wondering how this careless glyphosate slingen' neighbor had the bad luck to deliver a near fatal dose the very first time he sprayed along the property line. To me it suggests that the cat got into something stronger and that the timing was coincidental.
I was also unaware that there were tests that could be used to test for glyphosate on a pets fur and that a vet would have that around.
Lastly I have dosed myself pretty good a couple of times by accident and experienced no noticeable effects.. I hope I don't get kidney disease later in life but it is a common human foible to mix and match such things: for example if a lifetime of low level exposure will cause cancer then the stuff is bad and a single acute exposure must logically have horrible consequences like vomiting blood exorcist-style. This does not in fact logically follow. All the evidence suggesting a correlation between round-up exposure and kidney disease say nothing about symptoms of short term exposure if there even are any, and none of the literature that I am aware of call out those symptoms. I therefor suspect that the symptoms were from something else.
I was also unaware that there were tests that could be used to test for glyphosate on a pets fur and that a vet would have that around.
Lastly I have dosed myself pretty good a couple of times by accident and experienced no noticeable effects.. I hope I don't get kidney disease later in life but it is a common human foible to mix and match such things: for example if a lifetime of low level exposure will cause cancer then the stuff is bad and a single acute exposure must logically have horrible consequences like vomiting blood exorcist-style. This does not in fact logically follow. All the evidence suggesting a correlation between round-up exposure and kidney disease say nothing about symptoms of short term exposure if there even are any, and none of the literature that I am aware of call out those symptoms. I therefor suspect that the symptoms were from something else.