Bugs Don't Bite™ is an organic, all natural bug repellant for your pets. It repels mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, gnats and black flies. No odor, staining of clothes or toxic side effects.
The main ingredient in our product is ORGANIC CATNIP. We use no other oils, fillers or preservatives. Ours is a proprietary formulation that has been proven to repel mosquitoes, black flies, gnats, fleas and ticks from carpets, the fur of animals, and the skin of people. It also repels cockroaches and waterbugs.
There is no odor, staining of clothes or toxic side effects, and it is completely safe for young and older pets.
Frontline, Advantage, Biospot and other flea/tick products are extremely dangerous for you and your pet.
These products are applied to the skin and can cause the same dangerous issues in people as they do in pets. For example, these products contain:
1. Fipronil which has been shown to cause thyroid damage and cancer as well as damage to nervous and reproductive systems. Fipronil can also cause chemical burns to the skin and some dogs can have had hair loss where it is applied.
2. Methoprene is a neurotoxin. It can cause liver enlargement, headaches, throat irritation and nausea in large quantities. It has also been shown to cause difficulty in breathing and dizziness in some.Ethanol is also present in Frontline.
3. Permethrin (is used in more than 18 similar products, including K9 Advantix and Vectra 3D). It kills insects by paralyzing their nervous system (that is also how nerve gas works). However, it cannot distinguish between an insect's nervous system, a dog's nervous system, or a human's nervous system. A few drops can be deadly to a cat.
Toxicological studies have linked this pesticide to serious acute and chronic health effects. The EPA has classified it as a possible human carcinogen because it increases the frequency of lung and liver tumors in laboratory animals. It suppresses the immune system. Permethrin is also suspected to have played an important role in the development of illnesses known as the Gulf War Syndrome.
NONE of the toxic flea and tick sprays work 100% against fleas, ticks or mosquitoes. The ones that work best, like Advantix, do so because they add several stronger pesticides which are extremely toxic, and sometimes deadly, to cats, infant animals and HUMANS.
DO NOT believe claims that what you put on the skin is not absorbed in human, dog/cat bodies. The skin is the biggest organ and CAN absorb around 60% of what is put on it depending upon the molecular structure.
REMEMBER that all of these insects can cause severe allergies and carry diseases such as babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, tapeworms, heart worm, lyme's, nantucket fever, and rocky mountain spotted fever disease to name a few.
USING our organic product, either alone or with compounds, like Advantage, Frontline and/or Advantix is always a better choice and the ONLY thing that should be used on humans.
In a recently published journal entitled, Experimental Neurology, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that frequent and prolonged use of permethrin on adult rats lead to cell death in their brains. In another recent study, researchers at Virginia Tech found that low-level exposure to permethrin caused changes in the brain that could lead to Parkinson's Disease.
The inert ingredients in Bio Spot, which are not disclosed, may pose an even greater risk because they receive much less scrutiny by the EPA. The cumulative and synergistic effects of these chemicals are not required to be tested for safety.
Here are two more articles to read regarding some of these issues:
Natural Resources Defense Council, Health Hazards from Flea and Tick Products (Executive Summary), November, 2000.
