Same risks. Pick your poison, so to speak. Lyme
disease can be caught & treated. Cancers are another order of
problem.
I just sent a
more lengthy post to ridecamp with questions (for vets) about pyrethrins---but
"cancer" caught my eye---is there real evidence now that pyrethrins are linked
to cancer?
Personally I think I'd rather just move to Lyme disease tick free
area!
Is there such an
area??
Actually, I was not even thinking about Lyme disease when I posted for
help with getting rid of the ticks--I was thinking about the misery the horse
was in at the moment with big ticks hanging in their ears and the sores the
ticks were making--and how ear-shy the horse was getting from my trying to do
something about the ticks. I think I'll risk the possibility of
cancer down the road since they are not going to have more than "two packs of
tobacco" before they come home (where there are no ticks, apparently thanks to
the goats---so "legend" has it--grin). Claudia