By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2009-04-18 07:37:15 | Word Count: 577
1. Make your pet's meals
If you desire to find the ingredients of your pet's food, or if your pet is allergy-prone, then you can prepare your own pet food. If you cannot do it everytime, you can do it now this moment and later. Snippets from your table can be tasty for your dog.
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2. Sustainable articles
Your pets as well can go green with toys made from recycled materials sustainable fibers like hemp, produced without using pesticides or herbicides. A hemp dog-collar with leash to suit is fine for a mongrel. Moreover pet beds made of natural cotton or recycled PET bottles are available.
3. Organic pet care and cleaning articles
You avoid shampoos and cosmetics laden with toxic products, therefore your pets also deserve similar cure with organic pet care articles. If your cat or dog makes a mess, clear it up with eco-friendly cleaning articles that are soft on their skin.
4. Use a secure de-icer
The Safe Paw's environment-friendly Ice Melter is amongst the de-icers that are secure to kids and animals. Ice melting products which are based on rock salt or common salt are dangerous to the health of children and animals when they are accidentally ingested. Moreover they are likely to pollute drinking water supplies and wells.
5. Clean up their mess
Use ecological litter bags to remove your dog's excrements. Cat litter having clumping clay must be invariably kept away. Clay is obtained by strip mining which is an environment-unfriendly procedure of taking out the topsoil. Moreover the silica particles which are scattered in clay are carcinogenic and likely to settle in the lungs of cats. Additionally, the sodium bentonite which is added to make clumping is likely to be habitually ingested by cats that are so specific in grooming. The material can puff up and clog your cat'sintestines. Eco-friendly cat litters can prevent these problems and your cat will be content without having to claw at everything.
6. Compost animal litter
The litter produced yearly by the cats and dogs of the US is approximately 10 million tons. Most of it goes to the waste deposit, conserved in plastic bags; or at times it is left on the ground until it is washed down into a drain by a rainstorm, and contaminating the rivers and beaches in the end. You can compost the litter, however dont utilize it on your backyard; the compost does not generate enough heat to eradicate disease-spreading bacteria like E.coli which can pollute your vegetables and cause food poisoning.
If there is space existing in your backyard, you can create a pet-waste composter out of an used trash bin buried distant from your backyard. Moreover you can check out the Doggie Dooley. Incidentally, the company making Doggie Dooley also trades Super Digester Concentrate for using in your backyard pet-waste system.
7. Get rid of ticks
Surely you won't like to soak your pet with toxic products, however you have to keep the fleas in check. Pets can get infected with pests particularly ticks, which carry Lyme disease that can damage the nervous system. If this disease is traceable in your area, be careful and obtain opinion from specialist for elimination of ticks from your pets.
Author Resource:-
Eco Bob
G'day, I am Eco Bob! I am here to help you go green at home and lead an eco friendly life. I Love animal photos & videos. Pollution is suffocating this lovely planet, so I am passionate about working together with SuperGreenMe.com to solve this mess!
