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- 02/04/2010 at 9:06 AM
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  A study came out in the fall of last year about the eco-footprint of pets. It advocates keeping animals for pets that are edible, such as rabbits.
  
  http://www.thingsaregood.com/2009/10/27/keep-edible-pets/
  
  If one hamster’s footprint is that of a plasma TV, does this mean I could be driving a Hummer if I ate my quartet?
  
  I am joking.
- 02/04/2010 at 9:18 AM
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  Wonder what formula they used to decide this…I cannot imagine a little old hamster having a footprint that size.
- 02/04/2010 at 9:34 AM
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  Somehow they arrived at an amount of energy that a hectare of land can produce in a year. Not sure HOW this energy is produced – biofuel? But they then look at how much food needs to be produced on this land in order to feed said animal. And they do such things as raising chickens on the land in order to feed dogs. So basically, they’re saying that the amount of food to feed a pair of hamsters over a year they could use the same amount of land to produce enough energy to run a plasma tv for a year. Again, don’t know how it works.
- 02/04/2010 at 9:36 AM
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  If you start eating them, they’re livestock, not pets. I don’t think little Sally would be particularly happy if you got her a pet chicken and then roasted it for dinner a month later.
- 02/04/2010 at 9:39 AM
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  Also, I wonder how many ha they would come up with for a person? I imagine we waste more energy than 100 dogs combined. If that’s the case, maybe people should stop having kids and just have more pets 😉
- 02/04/2010 at 9:56 AM
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  Nope, we should just eat our dead.
- 02/04/2010 at 10:13 AM
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  Mark, that sounds a bit like the movie Solyent Green…do you remember that movie?
- 02/04/2010 at 10:19 AM
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  sarita, you beat me to it. I was just going to say. remember that part where Charlton Heston sees the jam on the spoon? Ever since that I appreciate my jam!
- 02/04/2010 at 10:21 AM
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- 02/04/2010 at 10:31 AM
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  I have to wonder about carnivorous pets’ eco-footprint. Did they assume that dogs and cats live on fresh whole chickens?
  Many city pounds send their euthanized animals to rendering plants to be processed for kibble.
- 02/04/2010 at 10:39 AM
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  Heehee, that’s cute Petzy. How did you get him to pose for that :~)
  
  I didn’t know that about city pounds Petzy. I guess it makes sense but most of the news stories about our dog pounds (the negative ones anyway) show the dogs being dumped at the city dump (alive). Sad stuff.
- 02/04/2010 at 10:44 AM
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  …and then the people who say this probably go to the supermarket and buy a huge turkey dinner, right?
  
  I LOVE that pic, Petzy. It really looks like he’s talking.
- 02/04/2010 at 10:47 AM
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  Posted By Sarita on 02/04/2010 10:13 AM
  Mark, that sounds a bit like the movie Solyent Green…do you remember that movie?
  
  Soylent green is people!!!!!
- 02/04/2010 at 10:49 AM
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  Petzy, that’s a good point. Also a lot of dog and cat food is made from the left overs of people food - stuff that would probably be thrown away anyway.
- 02/04/2010 at 2:01 PM
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  …Monkey isn’t big enough to make a meal for even a little dog. I’ll just keep her as a pet.
- 02/04/2010 at 2:23 PM
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  MB, we (and by we, I mean my college friends and husband) always used to joke about about cooking the gerbils up for dinner. They would have provided about 0.2oz of meat each, maybe Not really what I’d call an edible pet.
  
  I joke about making Otto into a coat, but never about eating him – he’d be too stringy anyway.
- 02/04/2010 at 2:38 PM
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  Monkey isn’t even big enough to make a single slipper out of. Guess I’m stuck with her hehe
- 02/04/2010 at 7:44 PM
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  Our rabbits produce enough poop to fertilize those hay fields, so it works out almost even. ( I am looking into a composting bin, I swear)
- 02/04/2010 at 7:45 PM
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  I think I’ll quote from another Heston movie…as in they’ll have to pry my bunny FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
  
  Personally, I think this stuff is all more hyperbole to get us to eventually be more controlled by governmental policies than we already are. I can remember the anti-pollution movements in the 70’s (remember the Indian with the tear rolling down his eye in the commercials against littering?) and the carbon footprint thing is being sold the same way.
  
  Not that this should stop us from wanting to keep our planet clean and cool, I’m all for that…but come on…a hamster is not taking that big of a bite out of the environment. I think we as a species believe way too much every thing we are told by “scientific” societies. Just my opinion.
- 02/04/2010 at 9:01 PM
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  My bunny would give off a fair amount of meat as a 6.5 lb bunny, but he’s 2 years old, so he’d be rather stringy. As far as his coat goes, since he has fur mites, I don’t think he’d be the first bunny to be skinned.
- 02/05/2010 at 2:13 AM
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  well my carbon foodprint is screwed! I have 5 chickens (none of which i will ever eat as they have name!) two dogs, two rabbits, two Budgies, two green cheeks, a quaker (as of yesterday), a cat, 3 horses and a bunch of fish!
- 02/05/2010 at 6:12 AM
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  But if you snuggle with your pets, you can turn down the thermostat at night.
- 02/05/2010 at 6:36 AM
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  I get this crap all the time living in a small primarily Czech town. Older people come over and pet them (feel them up) and ask when I”ll be eating them. They look at me like I’m crazy when I say they’re family pets.
  
  My gardening friends call them recyclable pets, they stand in line for the poopy wet hay for their gardens. 😉
- 02/05/2010 at 7:07 AM
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  Kral, our friends who bunny-sit love Otto for his composting ability 😉 Whenever we have a house we’ll definitely start a compost pile.
- 02/05/2010 at 7:27 AM
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  I actually use felony poo in the summer to fertilize my patio garden. I plant tomatoes and herbs in hanging baskets and on ledge containers. Simply keep some poo (not the urine or litter) in a container, and whenever I’m ready to water the plants I put the poo in the watering can and let it mingle (or brew) for a bit. Plants love Felpoo tea!!
  Also, angelicvampyre what kind of chickens do you have? Are they fancy chicks? If so, some pictures might be required! Do you trim their wings, ro do you not have a problem with them flying around? When I can actually talk myself out of moving out of the city and actually get a yard, I really want to get a pet chicken. I also love fresh eggs 🙂
- 02/05/2010 at 7:32 AM
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  Posted By Sarita on 02/04/2010 10:39 AM
  Heehee, that’s cute Petzy. How did you get him to pose for that :~)
  
  I didn’t know that about city pounds Petzy. I guess it makes sense but most of the news stories about our dog pounds (the negative ones anyway) show the dogs being dumped at the city dump (alive). Sad stuff.
  
  Yeah its real gross thats why we feed our dogs a home cooked diet we have 2 golden retrievers.
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