Yale Climate Connections (YCC) published an article yesterday asserting climate change is bad for our pets because it shortens and weakens winter, which prolongs flea-and-tick season.
On the contrary, climate change benefits our pets because it shortens winter and prolongs the time when pets get fresh air and exercise.
The article by the climate activist group YCC is typical of climate activists looking to find things people love – like pets, coffee, wine, etc. – and then claiming climate change harms those things, even when climate change clearly provides more benefits than harms.
The YCC article is titled “Fleas and ticks become a year-round nuisance for pets.” Google News is also promoting the article, featuring it among its top search results today under “climate change.”
The article’s subtitle notes, “Warmer weather is helping fleas to stay active” earlier in the spring and later in the fall.
No scientific evidence is cited in the article. Instead, the article quotes a veterinarian warning that a longer warm season means a longer flea-and-tick season.
Fleas, however, are not alone being active earlier in the spring and later in the fall as the Earth modestly warms. Pets generally do not go outside and exercise nearly as often in the winter as they do in spring, summer, and fall.
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Climate activists would like us to believe that it is healthier for pets to stay indoors and avoid fresh air and exercise, noting that an indoor pet also avoids fleas.
However, pet owners allow and encourage their pets to get exercise in the warm non-winter months precisely because the health benefits of fresh air and exercise are much greater than the nuisance of fleas and ticks, which can easily be mitigated with medication to prevent fleas and ticks.
As a whole, longer warm months benefit pets by providing a longer season for fresh air and exercise, even if that also allows fleas, ticks, and virtually all other animals to benefit from a longer warm season.
Don’t let climate activists induce you to harm your pet by keeping your pet cooped up inside.
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And yes, climate change brings warm sun in summer and cold in winter, and fleas love either. because they are fleas. It also addles AGW enthusiasts brains.
Yes. All those poor aging dogs with arthritic complaints would really suffer from fewer really cold days…
Honestly, most activism today seems to have sprung out of a Carrollian rabbit hole seeking to make bunnies of us all.
First article: Accurate Climate Reporting Falls Like Leaves In Autumn. Winters are getting longer.
Second article: Activist Group Claims Shorter Winters Harm Pets – They Don’t. Winters are getting shorter.
I honestly can’t come up with a comment that isn’t rude, crude or vulgar…..
Yale Climate Connections just another group of screwballs as crazy as those screwballs from Greenpeace,NRDC,EDF,Friends of the Earth,The Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement
When traveling in tropical countries, I saw large numbers of stray dogs and cats. There was no winter and plenty of fleas and ticks, so these folks are likely running at excrement capacity.
Shorter winter don’t harm pets, but it sure must have fried the brains of the global warming alarmist.