Environmentally Unfriendly Pets

[twentynine]

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I'm smelling what fell out of the south end of a north bound bull!!!!!!

 

[Boyd]

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Nope. I am just someone who was steeped in activism as a kid and then learned the truth about a majority of these causes as an adult. The great top soil crisis was the first one I remember. Then there was the coming ice age. Next it was the landfill crisis. Then the population bomb. Then there was the oil shortage in the 70's (it was all gone you see!), then there was acid rain, global warming, climate change, carbon emissions from meat animals and now pets! It's all the same thing over and over in a different guise.

global warming....

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

There is a TV show called life after people.... Humans are the problem not the dogs. Save the world spay or neuter your kids.

 

[Camelot Farms]

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I have a similar footprint problem.

Seriously I have been burning my paper trash for years and the ashes are sprinkled into the compost bin.
I save anything metal. Copper found on construction sites (My company does a lot of new construction cleaning) is brought home stripped of it's coating and saved for scrap sale. I really like electricians as everywhere they go they leave a trail of money laying behind them.
Michigan has a can deposit law so the cans go back to the store but not until I strip the pull tab and save it in my alluminum stash.
Plastic juice bottles and milk bottles dont have a deposit so they get filled half full with water and stored in the upright freezer. The freezer doesn't work as hard when it is filled and should the power go out all those ice blocks will keep meat frozen for days.
Then in july when the blueberrys come in I empty the water and fill them with blueberries and strawberries and freeze them.
I save tin cans to use to protect my seedlings from cutworms and cut them up to label vegtable rows.
My neighbors all have their herby kerby out on the street overflowing once a week. Last year the disposal company picked mine up twice filled with the few things I can't find any other use for. Once they even forgot to bill me saving me $8.80

I want to be you.

In honesty, I am lazy...yes. For my all talk of wanting to be a minimalist... Its only true if its easy and doesnt cause me a hassle.
That doesnt make me sound too good does it?

I do have a Water Collection Unit... commonly referred to as a rainbarrel...lol
I compost and I would recycle if I knew where to do it. NY was easy...it was a law. VA, I am clueless.

**Off to hang my head in shame**

 

[Camelot Farms]

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roflmbo!! That was funny!!!

 

[Amyable]

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And antelope, herds of zebras, water buffalo, wild birds, etc... aren't?

I'm trying to grasp this whole footprint concept. Really.

It's a scam. It is a way to make people feel guilty so you can manipulate them and separate them from their hard earned cash and/or force people to change their chosen lifestyle.​

Some of the numbers in that article don't jive. With a total 7.7 million cats in Britain, more than 188 million wild animals are hunted, killed and eaten by feline predators per year, or an average 25 birds, mammals and frogs per cat, according to figures in the New Scientist. They are assuming every cat is outdoors and hunting. Well, two of our three cats are afraid to go outside, and the third is an ex-barn cat who has brought me just a couple shrews over the last 6 months - thank you Jerry! Our home (including garage and sheds) and practices (compost pile, feeding the birds) provides additional food and shelter for rodents, so if my cat catches one or two a month I consider it even.

The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year. Yes, dogs and cats are carnivores. So are a lot of other animals on the planet! I get the feeling the folks behind these articles want the entire earth to be vegetarian. You can lessen the "footprint" by feeding raw foods to your pets.

And not every pet owner indulges in sweaters, fancy food, and accessories. I think our GSD would be mortified if we did. He is our guard, scrap-eater, and his shedding coat provides nesting material for birds every spring. Get rid of our pets because some scientist group has decided they're now bad for the environment? I don't think so.

 

[hikerchick]

You can't put a price on the love of a pet. They can protect you from predators, keep you warm at night, save you money on prozac.

 

[FarmerChick]

Humans are not the problem.

Humans CREATE the problems.



So dispose of all pets to fix a problem, stop the unnecessary factories making ice skates, ski poles, barbie dolls, knick knacks of billions of kinds, etc


In other words, change the total society as we live right now on the whole. No one can do it. So we further the problem because humans won't change. To change our living now would be impossible to do. Slow down the effect of humans (like recycling some bottles) and the humans accept a slow death into the future. (but who cares, us living now won't be there to see it)

Humans can easily live on this earth friendly. We CHOOSE not too.

 

[PineappleMama]

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roflmbo!! That was funny!!!

Show of hands... who remembers the line "Only stupid people are breeding..."

Sorry, it was the first thing that popped in my head when I read that.
Of course, you start doing that and next (20-200 years pass in an instant) thing you know it's Gattica and you're InValid

Edit... sidenote... I'm trying to remember if bacon is good or bad this week... they change their minds so often....

 

[lighthawk]

Bacon-GOOD