Is it true that having pets creates huge amounts of pollution?
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Obviously pet food companies pollute; additional consumer products generated just for keeping pets, some VEry wasteful.
My cat leaves his business in my back yard. This might be thought of as pollution but in fact it is fertilizer. I have to dispose of cans from his food, but the disposal is minimal and the lack of suitable disposal sites has been greatly exaggerated. So the answer is obviously NO. Pets do not create any significant pollution.
it depends on what your buying your pet.
If you have a cat for example not all kitty liter is bio-degradeable imagine if you went through 3 10lb bags a month 1lb per day basically and tossed out what you didn't use... 365lbs a year added up. Just estimating on the amount here, some people use more.
Another way is canned food, not the food but the can being trashed, so if your dog or cat eats canned food and gets 2 cans a day thats 730 cans a year or so if not recycled.
It's not the pets themself but what we do with our pets products...Also many people run their TV set while away so their pets are entertained and that adds up on energy and on electricity
I really can't see why pets would cause more pollution.I would think that they encourage people to be outdoors more,especially dogs or birds.I know mine sure does.Plus theres nothing better for you soul than rubbing on your pet and knowing he loves you back,no strings attached...
So wouldn't we cause pollution as they do? (In the same way they are polluting, not our personal contributions of a McDonald's cup on the side of the highway...)
Nah, they really aren't polluting. In my opinion, pollution is something unnatural placed into the environment or any other place of interest.
Well, we comsume a lot more evergy with our pets, and indirectly we cause more pollution.
I wouldn't think so. The poop and hair is just recycled into the ground. We have miniature donkeys and we use the poop to grow flowers, berries, vegetables. A great natural fertilizer.
I would hope not. I have never heard of anything like that before. That would be so very sad. My pets are my children!!
well i dont think so.......
wish i new
I just can't see my little shih tzu creating pollution. Believe me I am gung ho for environmental control, but I don't think pets are the major issue. I live around chemical plants that put out pollution at night when people are sleeping and you can smell it. What is being done about that? The President has loosened the control over the EPA and what is being let out in our air by these chemical plants. We need to get these big problems taken care of immediately while we can still breath here.
Not in my house...I use the 22 pound bags of dog and cat food for trash bags once they are emptied...My dog gets bathed in my tub water, once I am done, of course. Yes, I am guilty of using two cans every other day; one for my dog and one I split between four cats but my personal meals create that much! My animals sure do help me to stay sane in this crazy world. That's a trade off I can't give away! Good luck and God Bless
I can't see this being true for the same reasons given by the other respondent's.
If anything in your household creates huge amounts of pollution it would be you and if anything would be contributing huge amounts it would have to be children.
Add up the resources a pet consumes then compare it to what a child consumes. You tell me what consumes more. Pets should be your least concern with regards to pollution.
If your pet uses the restroom outdoors, it is fertilizing plants and that makes more oxygen, right? That sounds pretty environmentally friendly to me.
No, because what comes out of them is NATURAL. You probably heard a spin-off of the myth of cow flatulence. Some people say that cows are a big reason for the supposed global warming.
I haven't any pet that can create the pollution I create
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