Eat your pet - reduce carbon footprints

Here are some hard and unpleasant facts that you need to know if you own pets – always strike a balance between your pet and its carbon footprints. A suggestion is – eat the dog or the cat and eliminate its carbon footprints. It might sound strange but a research carried out by two New Zealanders has unearthed a startling fact – dogs are a danger to the health of our planet. A medium sized dog has carbon footprints that are comparable to that of a Toyota Land Cruiser that does 6000 miles per year! Do not keep them as pets, they say. No one disputes the fact that the dog is the most faithfully of friends one can have – but the damage it causes to the environment offsets its utility value. The findings are based on a comparative study of land required to grow food for the pets from cats and dogs to budgerigars. As per the findings, an average size Collie eats 164 kgs of meat and 95 kgs of cereals per year whereas a pair of rabbits can give birth to at least 36 young ones which can, in turn, account for 72 kgs of meat – this would reduce the carbon footprints for its owner.