Since we've become parents, my husband and I have been trying with
mixed success to "tread more lightly on the Earth" as I say in my more
pretentious moments. We have reduced the amount of stuff we buy, we
recycle, and we reuse things as much as we can (who knew that our
happy and grateful acceptance of hand-me-down toys and clothes doesn’t
mark us as cheap bastards, but as an Earth-friendly family)?
But
there's one area that we haven't "greened" at all – caring for the
needy little four-legged beings who inhabited our life before the kids
ever arrived. I guess I figured they were automatic resource sinks and
didn’t think it was possible to "green your pets" (which conjures
images of hair dye and really pissed-off cats, but whatever), but
according to this post on Treehugger, it is!
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