The morning after a fresh snowfall, you’ve probably once walked out of your home and spotted paw prints meandering around ...

The takeaway from all this is simply that dog (and cat) ownership does have an ecological footprint. Like everything else in your life, keeping a pet is intertwined with our insatiable consumerism.

These differences have a huge overall impact. In the context of Brazil, a study concluded that the annual carbon footprint of a dog weighing 10kg depends on food: 828kg of emissions for dry food ...