I've received a forwarded email regarding a new threat to our animals, I now have permission to show this on the forum from the original author:
I have been forwarded your email regarding lanate and would like to update you of the following:
We are the Argos Animal Rescue & Protection Association who are also one of the founding members of the 'Cyprus Voice for Animals' - this is a union of the majority of animal welfare organisations in Cyprus formed as a government pressure lobby.
On 4th September 2007, CVAdelegates had a ministerial conference with the Ministers of Agriculture, Interior and Justice regarding animal welfare. This was a long awaited conference following our demonstration to ban lanate outside the Ministry of Agriculture on 22nd February 2007.
At this meeting the Minister informed us that the EU has banned lanate because it is harmful to humans and will be withdrawn from EU markets in 2009. We have been advised by the Govt. Veterinary Services that a substance has been added to lanate that makes the animals vomit. How true that is, we are not able to verify this.
However, there is a far more potent pesticide on the market called '
Furadan' - with no smell no taste and once this is ingested, the animal cannot be saved.
These pesticides should not be made available to anyone who is not licenced to use.
Rgds
Stella Stylianou
Argos Animal Welfare
This new threat sounds even more disasterious than 'Lanate' so I would be extra careful when walking your animal anywhere these's days