"...a "medium" sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) -- around twice the 0.41 hectares required by a 4x4 driving 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) a year, including energy to build the car."
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"Yes, well, I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you." - Sheldon Cooper
Dang... We've got seven dogs, a rabbit and three birds. I keep telling my wife that we need to get rid of the dogs and the birds, and eat the rabbit. Now I've got an even better reason than "They stink."
Then I could go buy Hummer.... Cuz if I get rid of her dogs, I dang sure ain't getting any for free...
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Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.
Maybe we could just take out the wolves, coyotes, and feral dogs?
Man.....I hope they don't do a study on equines. Along with our 3 dogs and two cats, we have a horse and a mule. There's a lot of truth in the old saying "farts like a mule". At 16 hands and around 1,200 lbs, she's probably got a "carbon footprint" equivelent to a deisel fueled battleship. The bad thing is she can't hold a candle to my 14 year old son........
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
That would explain the lack of eyebrows and facial hair in my family.........
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
Wonder if Obammy is going to get rid of his anointed dog? NO, not Michelle. The other dog the one that walks on four feet..No not Nancy P either. all though she does walk on all fours.
Something along the lines of what i have been suggesting for yrs .
And when i see all those whiny
ASPCa? animal rescue commericals while watching things like fox lately- i think of the same things.
Instead of me sending my money to save animals- id rather give or sell the unwanted animals for
persons to eat & make into fur garments etc
- here or china
Korea etc & if profits can be made all the better.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
Im not saying i agree with the global warming aspect of it- because i dont.( but thats another story)
But i dont think things should be wasted( including food) when they can be put to good uses.
And me personaly - my limited resources will always go to help humans first- before animals( all of them)
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
Whats the question?
A armadillio would be better??
But to be serious - if your asking a question - im not sure what it is.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
Solution to Global Warming!
all though she does walk on all fours.
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