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Reducing the carbon paw print of your animal companion is just another way of keeping your family, your home, and your life purringly green. From food to kitty litter to choosing adoption and more, keep Fido's tag wagging and curl up with Planet Green's "How to Go Green: Pets."
Top Tips for Greening Your Pets
Adopt: Purchasing an animal from an animal breeder could mean supporting practices like over-breeding, inbreeding, poor veterinary oversight, lousy food and living conditions, overcrowding, and culling of unwanted animals. Meanwhile, roughly 8-10 million cats and dogs enter shelters each year with 4-5 million of them ended up euthanized.
Choose Organic: If you avoid pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, artificial preservatives, artificial ingredients, or genetically engineered ingredients in your food, why not do the same for your furry animal companions?
Keep Kitty Inside: Two out of every three vets recommend keeping cats indoors. This is partly to keep them away from cars, predators, disease, and other hazards. In addition, the local bird population will deeply appreciate your gesture. And remember: The average life span of a free-roaming cat is less than three years. For an indoors-only cat it's 15 to 18 years.
Did You Know?
- 60% of pet owners have a dog
- There are 66 million pet cats in the United States
- The number of puppies and kittens are born every hour in the United States is 5,500, compared with 415 human babies
For more on Pet Tips check out Planet Green's Guide, How to Go Green: Pets. For more on Going Green, check out the Planet Green How to Go Green Archives.
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