Tag: Pets - Page 7
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O.R.E. Originals: Recycled Rubber Pet Mats
If only Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants knew how to clean up after themselves. Keep pet-food areas neat and organized—and food bowls from sliding all over the kitchen floor—with O.R.E Originals' non-skid mats.
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TH Forums Highlights: Kitty Litter, Green Limos + More
1) Forums user megsmind wants to get down and dirty with kitty litter: "I'm currently using corn-cob cat litter. It's ungodly expensive and doesn't seem to mask oder at all... is it any
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Survey: What Do You Feed Your Dog?
The tainted pet food crisis earlier this year made a lot of people rethink what they feed their pets. TreeHugger John Laumer wants to know- what do you feed yours? Our own How to Green your pet says "If the idea of becoming a fulltime pet chef is just
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Downloadable Designs: Cat Toys from Marmalade Pet
We do go on about downloadable designs, (and even have a website devoted to them at In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable) but now present the simplest and easiest downloadable design anywhere. It's from Marmalade Pet, who brought us the
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Cardboard Lounger for Cats
I loved the cardboard furniture I saw on MocoLoco and then I clicked through to the source and was surprised to find out that it is for cats! Marmalade Pets uses non-toxic adhesives and recycled content. They suggest that their beds "provide a long
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Sew a Pet Bed
Dog and cat beds—especially eco-friendly ones made of hemp, organic cotton, and recycled PET—can get pricey, costing upwards of at least $60. So when it became obvious that recent adoptee Mir needed a place to snooze other than our seriously peeved
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Survey: If You Wanted A Pet, Where Would You Go?
While nosing around our sibling sites at Discovery I found Petfinder.com, a free matchmaking site with 255,653 pets looking for homes. Being the type of person who sees dogs only as producers of crap on the sidewalk, I found the numbers absolutely
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Kattbank: An Odd Multi-Tasker for the Cat Lover
Though sort of an odd pairing, Kattbank is a multi-tasking bench that might be perfect for cat owners short on space. Realizing that nobody wants to have to stare at a litter box in the living room (or wherever it is), they designed this clever bench
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Build a Green-Roofed Dog Veranda
Provide a shaded spot for Fido to chill with his homies in the backyard, while supplying some real estate for a bee- and butterfly-friendly garden. "My dogs are spoiled rotten and sleep in bed with my wife and I," says the Instructable writer. "This is
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Seattle Councilman Wants Goats Recognized as Pets
Does Seattle Councilman Richard Conlin's latest proposal stand a goat of a chance?
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Greenbelts' Recycled Leather Cuffs, Collars
Seattle artist and child wrangler Shannon Ritscher retools used leather belts into mean-looking biker cuffs and rhinestone-encrusted studded collars for both humans and non-humans alike. Many of the embellishments Ritscher uses, including bottle caps,
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Square Cat Habitat: Green Living (and Lounging) for Your Cat
Because modern pets (and their owners) sometimes prefer modern furniture, Square Cat Habitat has updated the scratching post and kitty bed with a modern, sustainable alternative. The Portland, OR-based cat lovers chose bamboo plywood and water-based
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Everyday Studio Cat Tree
If your cat's aesthetic is more Frank Gehry than, well, Petco, then Snookums is going to dig designer Susan Kralovec's cat trees. Handcrafted in San Francisco and made from 100 percent corrugated cardboard (with 35 percent minimum recycled content),
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FlexPetz
Sure, I can get jiggy with the idea of Flexcar's car-sharing network, but FlexPetz? When I was first introduced to the doggy-timeshare biz on my friend—and occasional TreeHugger contributer—Green LA Girl's blog, I thought it was some kind o
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Aquarium Owners: Are Your Fish Fair-Trade Certified?
As we normally associate fair trade with products like coffee, chocolate, and handcrafted goods, this probably seems like a really strange question. But, in the case of one species of tropical fish, a number of environmental organizations, and the pet
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Ask TreeHugger: Pets and Allergies
Response: Pets allergies can be a significant problem not only for people living with the pets but also for
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Dog Power: Ideal Bite on Urban Mushing
We have previously covered urban ‘mushing’ here. No, this is not the art of pureeing organic vegetables to make food for your city-dwelling baby, but rather it’s a neat way to get about town cheaply, and cleanly, while exercising your dog. Now Ideal
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How to Go Green: Pets
Ah, the pitter patter of four-legged feet as they whip through your living room at overclocked speeds or uproot your prize gladiolas with manic fervor. But Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants are practically family, right? So why should they settle for
