A tiny chihuahua in Georgia named Mr. Jones lost his eyes after wearing a Seresto collar. He’s one of the 86,000 dogs that have fallen ill after wearing one of the pesticide laden collars that the EPA said was safe for pets. The complaints filed with the EPA included agonizing stories from hundreds of families about watching their dogs die. 

Young children who sleep with dogs at night even suffered from seizures and major rashes on their body. But the EPA approved the toxic collars anyway. These deadly chemicals must be pulled from the shelf.  

More than 2,300 people have reported to the Environmental Protection Agency that their pets died after wearing Seresto flea collars — and the agency has done nothing about it.

After putting on Seresto collars, pet owners reported, their beloved companions suffered seizures, stopped breathing, and in 1,700 instances died, leaving their people heartbroken and wondering how it could have happened.

These pesticide collars are supposed to kill fleas and ticks — not the pets that wear them.

An astounding 86,000 incidents related to the collars, including almost 1,000 involving human harm, have been reported to the EPA — and although it’s the agency in charge of regulating these products, it has taken no action to investigate the reports, inform the public, or remove the dangerous collars from the market.

This negligent attitude from the EPA’s pesticide office is disturbing and deadly.

Pesticides are chemicals designed to kill, and it’s not just pets who are at risk: An estimated billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States. 490,000 pounds of pesticides are dumped each year just on national wildlife refuges, lands specifically designed to offer a safe haven to wildlife — especially endangered species.

Each year we learn more disturbing news about the harmful impacts of pesticides, especially on farmworkers and children.

The same agency failing to protect our pets from these poisons are also failing to protect wildlife, the environment and all of us from toxic pesticides.

With one million species at risk of extinction, the last thing imperiled wildlife needs is another poison to contend with.

We must stop the EPA from rubber-stamping poisons that harm life on Earth — and make a safer future for our pets by outlawing products with a known history of harm.

Tell the EPA to protect pets and people alike by banning the use of toxic Seresto-brand flea collars immediately.