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Pollution and Your Pet, How to Protect Them

by Shelly

dog-cat.jpg1. Don’t use lawn herbicides and be sure and remove your shoes inside your own house to avoid tracking in the chemicals from other people’s and business lawns that you will walk across during your day to day activities. Even some parks use them, so be aware of what you are bringing into your own homes flooring, rugs and carpeting.

2. Use plant-based kitty litter that has been made from wheat or recycled newspaper instead of clay-based littler, which is strip mined and has now become aware of what an eco-nightmare it really has become. There are many brands out on the market today that are more eco-friendly and it may take a few weeks maybe even a month for your pet to adjust, but once they do continue using the eco-friendly option in your own home.

3. Vacuum frequently and bag resulting dust to prevent reintroducing it into your house over and over again. Be sure and vacuum more often during the summer months, when in and out of the house is more frequent. Especially if you have children that run in and out a lot.

4. Flea collars in ineffective and a source of constant toxic exposure to your pets and even your family. Choose an all natural pest repellant like garlic sprinkled onto their foods or clove oil on the back of the neck. Check out more pest control options here.

5. Pick pet foods that are free of chemical preservatives BHA, BHT and ethoxyquin, vary cats’ diets to limit them to seafood mercury exposure and choose organic or free-range ingredients rather than a products labeled as “by-products” on the ingredients label.

6. If you suspect your deck or porch is made from arsenic treated wood don’t let your poets underneath them at all. Regularly treat with sealant or even consider replacing it. Never power was an arsenic treated porch with a power sprayer.

7. Choose toys that are free of colored dyes and fashioned from organic and even natural fibers. You pet can’t see the color, so why should he chew on toys that have been dyed and dipped into toxin chemicals. If you wouldn’t let you child chew on it, why let your pet chew on it.

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Posted in Carbon Footprints, Carbon Offsets, Pets on June 27th, 2008

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