Green Dog, Good Dog: Reducing Your Best Friend’s Carbon Paw Print
Dominique De Vito
Green Dog, Good Dog: Reducing Your Best Friend’s Carbon Paw Print
Lark Books (Sterling Publishing), New York, New York. 2009
There is a lot of focus on the carbon footprint, but what about the carbon “paw” print? Feeding Fido highly processed factory food and cleaning up using plastic “poop” bags that get tossed in landfills definitely leaves paw prints on the environment. With over 70 million dogs in the United States, 40 million households can make greener choices for their beloved pooches. <em>Green Dog, Good Dog </em>is a fun guide with action plans after each chapter to help dogs and their owners join the Green Dog community. Information on commercial pet food and options for greener feeding, as well as how to make clean-up a green-up, and how to find a green veterinarian are some of the topics covered. American pet owners spend $50 billion annually on their pets (most of it on mass produced food). By spending greener, dogs will be happier and healthier, and so will the planet.
