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Pets' Carbon Pawprint Cause for Alarm

Fido, Fluffy fetch bad news for environment

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 27, 2009 3:38 AM CDT

(Newser) – Forget the gas guzzler—it's Fluffy and Fido who are delivering a carbon blow to the global environment. That's the odd warning from a pair of New Zealand professors who claim the carbon pawprint of a large dog delivers twice the impact of a Toyota...   Read full story »

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