How to Green Your Pet Care

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Adopt a pet.

   Adoption relieves the burden of unwanted pets and ensures that they get a good, caring home.
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   Step 2: Cut down on packaging.

   Pet food and accessory packaging is an enormous source of waste.
   
   Recycle as much as you can, buy in bulk if possible, and try to minimize purchasing anything with too much packaging. , This relieves some of the packaging burden, as well as ensuring that your pet is getting tasty and nutritious food.
   
   Just be sure that you're meeting your pet's nutritional requirements though.
   
   Look for pet food choices that are organic, hormone free, drug-free, with minimal processing. , Unless you intend to breed your pet in a responsible manner, the best option is desexing so that no unwanted pets are brought into the world.
   
   The bonus is that desexing often ensure that your pet bonds more with you. , For example, look for kitty litter that will biodegrade and flea treatments that are not toxic to your family and your pet.
   
   Clean your pet's bedding, sleeping area, and other places with eco-friendly and pet-friendly products. , If you can use products that are both safe and reused to create a new toy for your pet, then you're doing a lot to help spare resources.
   
   For example:
   How to make cat toys How to make dog toys How to make a bead string toy for a guinea pig. , Dogs and cats are special problems around native wildlife their own size and smaller.
   
   Their impact can be reduced by keeping them in at nights, using a leash when walking dogs in parks, on trails, etc., and by putting noisy bells on cat collars.
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   Step 3: Feed your pets homemade meals.

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   Step 4: Get your pet desexed.

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   Step 5: Use eco-friendly care products.

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   Step 6: Make toys for your pet by recycling.

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   Step 7: Keep pets away from the native wildlife.

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