Researchers have found that the carbon pawprint of a dog is twice that if a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 km a year. The factors taken into account for determining this figure were ingredients of pet food and the land needed to create them. "A lot of people worry about having SUVs but they don't worry about having Alsatians and what we are saying is, well, maybe you should be because the environmental impact ... is comparable." says Brenda Vale, author of Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living.
A medium dog eats 164 kg of meat and 95kg of cereal every year. This means it takes 0.84 hectares to feed Fido, which amounts to more than doule the fotprint of a Toyota Land Cruiser. In comparison, cats have an eco footprint of 0.15ha - slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf. Hamsters have a footprint of 0.014ha – keeping two of them is equivalent to owning a plasma TV.
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