Who so ever you are... I believe that you really have no job rather than doing a research on something like that. I would say that we humans are the ones who do a major contribution to the global warming not those poor innocent animals. How more selfish can we be? It's just another life like all of us. You should rather promote and encourage people to adopt more dogs/cats so that there are no more strays. Every life on earth has a right to live.

World Watch just produced a report showing that the UN FAO report of 2007 titled 'Livestock's Long Shadow' grossly underestimated the emissions from the livestock Industry. It is not 18% (more than the entire auto industry) but closer to 51%. Therefore if anyone is concerned about emissions, or about the planet at all, the simplest and most powerful thing they can do is to adopt a plant-based diet (no meat/dairy/eggs). It's not that hard. To blame dogs for having a high carbon footprint while ignoring the much larger one of non-vegetarian humans is just sticking your head in the sand.

I have been around for 77 plus years, and this is the stupidest article I have ever read. Maybe we should take Brenda and Robert Vale; stick them in a pen and keep them as pets. After we fatten them up we could slaughter them and hold a BBQ, inviting four-leggers only. My dog eats exactly what I eat; rice, vegetables, and all non-animal products.

The book is worth a read to get a perspective on sustainability. A bit technical lots of numbers. Solutions are offered on how to get everyones footprint down to the target 2 Hectares, just cut our energy consumption across everything we do by 66%. We all have along way to go. Shame the focus is on the dog, alot of heads in the sand still.

what a load of crap i would never consider eating mans best friend

It is not bad to understand environmental footprint. My 2 dogs are going nowhere soon. What was the footprint of Al Gore's private jet to Europe and back, then doing it again just days later after winning the Nobel peace prize? How many centuries can I have 2 dogs based on just 2 weeks of Al Gore's private jetting? How about his 20,000 sq foot house. How many dogs can I have in my 1950 sq ft house and still be below that. When he leaves a line of limos running outside his events so that his inner circle need not suffer the indignity of coming back to a nonClimate controlled car ... how much indigestion would my dogs have to work through to compare to that? And that is a Nobel Peace prize winning environmentalist. I'll just always aim to have a footprint smaller than his (won't be hard).

I wonder what the eco-footprint of a Brenda Vale is?

I think there are other solutions with regards to the issue of global warming without compromising our pets. Our pets are our companion. Maybe, to fight against global warming, we should limit the pets we have, at least. But not eliminating them totally.

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I offset the cost of feeding my large dog by letting him eat the neighbor's chickens and rabbits.

When I was sick there was no finer company than my dog and family. Now that I am well the same applies. Take UR LIPERAL crap and put it on the planet URANUS! The northeast had no summer; Global warming my *ss!