Some pet breeders have only one goal: to raise large quantities of purebred animals for profit. They also overbreed, inbreed, have lousy food and living conditions. Why buy when you can adopt one of the 70,000 puppies and kittens born every day in the United States? Love knows no pedigree.
Rein in your pets; protect native wildlife
Always keep your dog on a leash when outside, and confine your mangy feline indoors. Topped only perhaps by habitat destruction, cats are the biggest, baddest bird killers of all time. Even wind turbines have got nothing on them. Unlike wild predators, house cats are always well fed, well rested and do not need to hunt birds.
Swap out the junk food
Most conventional pet-food brands you find at the supermarket consist of low-grade wastes from the beef and poultry industries. Natural and organic pet foods use meats that are raised in sustainable, humane ways. They do not have pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, artificial ingredients or genetically engineered ingredients.
Clean up their poop
Scoop up your pups poop in biodegradable poop bags so it isn't immortalized in a plastic bag in a landfill somewhere. Cat owners should avoid clumping clay litter at all costs. Not only is clay strip-mined andbad for the planet, but the clay sediment is also permeated with carcinogenic silica dust that can coat little kitty lungs . Plus, the sodium bentonite that acts as the clumping agent can poison your cat through chronic ingestion through their fastidious need to groom. Because sodium bentonite acts like expanding cement,it's also used as a grouting, sealing, and plugging material, it can swell up to15 to18 times their dry size and clog up your cat's insides. Eco-friendly cat litters avoid these problems.
Give them sustainable toys
Your furry friends save the planet too while still having fun! Give them toys made from recycled materials or sustainable fibers such as hemp. A hemp collar is a rocking accessory to match the hemp leash. You can even buy pet beds made with organic cotton.
Easy green tips
Easy tips to help you save energy, save money and save the planet.
'Green' burials becoming popular
Green services eliminate embalming, tombstones and metal caskets to create environmentally friendly burials.
Pressure-cooking turns algae into biofuel
"We're trying to do what nature does when it creates oil, but we don't want to wait millions of years."
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