Eco-friendly pets: Fido reduces his carbon paw print

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — Enlightened animal lovers across the United States can now pamper beloved pets without adding to global warming or creating an outsized carbon paw print.

Answers for the ecologically-aware pet owner were on offer at the "Going Green With Pets" conference at Manhattan's tony Metropolitan Dog Club, with pointers on everything from whipping up biodegradable cat litter to choosing the best organic shampoo for one's Lhasa Apso.

"This is a doggy salon," said Charlotte Reed, the store's proprietor, as well as the doting owner of a small menagerie that includes three toy spaniels, three Himalayan cats and two birds.

Reed hastened to add however, that hers is a salon where the emphasis is as much on saving the planet as on doting on one's pet....