Tag: Pets - Page 4
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Win a Trip to South Africa From KEEN Footwear
Image via: Green Living Project Love your KEENs? Well now your KEENs can show some love back by offering one lucky person the chance to take a trip to South Africa to explore and help out with a local animal shelter. Lions, Tigers, Bears, Oh My. Well,
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From the Forums: What to Do With Cat Litter?
Recyclegrl asks:
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Is Pet Airways Un-TreeHugger?
When Kristen wrote about Pet Airways, which ships Fido and Fluffy around America by turboprop, she put it in the Un-TreeHugger category and called it frivolous and a waste of energy. To our surprise, commenters disagreed vehemently, calling us UnFun
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UnTreeHugger: Pet Airways.
Thanks to the gang over at Daily Candy for this little tip. For just USD$149 each way (starting price), you can ship Fido, Fluffy and all of your four-legged family members around the US on the newly minted Pet Airways. The
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The Blogosphere's Top 5 Ways to Green Your 4th of July Celebrations
This week on TreeHugger we've been looking at ways you can make your Independence Day celebrations greener than the grass you'll be having your BBQ on. Avoiding carbon from BBQ's, vegan celebrations in Texas, fireworks and the environment, have all
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Shainsware: Recycled Rubber Accessories That Send a Message (And Tweens Squealing)
Why say it when you can wear it? Shainware's recycled and recyclable rubber accessories are designed to allow you to communicate your message, whether it's "Stop Global Warming" or "Future Mrs. Ed Cullen," simply by snapping on
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Amazing Treat Machine: A Dog-Friendly Cardboard Snack Dispenser
Your pooch may be smarter than the average dog—canine Mensa material, to be exact—but the premise for the Amazing Treat Machine is so simple that even the dumber-than-dirt dog will get it: Tennis ball goes in, tennis
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Fetchstix: Mother Nature's Dog Toy Made From Actual Wood
In a world saturated with flashy, electronic whatsits and geegaws, sometimes you've got to throw an old-fashioned dog a bone. Or in the case of the urban pooch who's pining for his own personal Walden, a wooden stick. We're
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When the Love of Animals Becomes Deadly
Hoarders have been around for years. Some prefer to classify themselves as "pack rats," others "collectors." Whatever they choose to be called, they are still among
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A Little Toilet Humor: Powerloo, The Flushable, Outside Dog Toilet
Sometimes finding humor in life is as easy as checking into some of the news being featured around the nation. Today's humorous news bit comes from a story published yesterday in the Chicago Tribune titled, "What to do with doggy
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Can Walking Dogs Help the Planet?
When you work at Monster Minders it can. Besides cleaning up garbage (poop), getting physical exercise, and making a little Vitamin D from all the sun exposure, leaving your pooch with Monster Minders allows you one more
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Caboodle Corrugated Habitats for Cats
It's a banner day for my cat, Chekhov, whenever the FedEx truck pulls up in front of my door, hefty box in tow. It's almost comical the way he pads hurriedly into the living room, tail quivering with anticipation as I slice the
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Cardboard Design's Recycled Cat Scratcher is Boon to Kitties and Furniture Everywhere
Cats are attracted to cardboard, like bees are to, well, you know. Made with recycled cardboard and vegetable-based glues in the United States, Cardboard Design's remedy for cat-scratch fever is one part recyclable objet
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Do You Care About the First Puppy?
As Gawker put it, A Nation Sighs as Obama Puppy Crisis Finally Ends. Google News lists 1,406 articles on the subject this weekend. Treehugger declared the puppy green. In other countries like France, what goes on behind the walls of the Palais de l'
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How To Get Chicks
Some of the author's chickens going outside for the first timeDear Pablo, I am thinking about getting some chickens but I don't live on a farm. Can you raise chickens in the suburbs without causing trouble in the neighborhood?I am hearing of more and
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Green Puppy in the Obama White House
Image: Pete Souza -- The White House Photo on WashingtonPost Political Puppy Pleases If anyone had any doubts about Obama's abilities to navigate delicate politcal situations and finesse an optimal outcome, these reservations must now be dashed: the
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Your Pets Aren't Going to Like Global Warming, Either: Infectious Diseases Likely to Rise
Most of the time when it comes to climate change's impact on animals the focus is on endangered species, changes in habitat of more common animals, the spread of invasive species. But new research shows that our
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Jamboree Dog Bed Sticks It to Flying Fur
Ah, pet hair, the scourge of dog and cat owners everywhere. To solve this perennial problem, one Australian designer came up with a prototype for a dog hammock that not only draws shed fur through the magic of electrostatic
