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Dog Nutrition: What’s the Crack?
Dog Nutrition: What's the Crack?As much as we are all about promoting environmentally friendly dog food here at The Jess Fox & Hound Dog Grocer, we also know how important it is to talk about dog nutrition. In one of our previous posts we talked about how to try...
Dog Poo Bags: What’s the Scoop?
Dog Poo Bags: What's the Scoop?A warning to you all, we’re about to talk to you all about all dog owner’s least favourite aspect of their dogs….The Poop. Dog poo is, however much we might wish it otherwise, an unfortunate fact of owning a dog. And with the poop, comes...
Jess Fox and Hound the Dog Grocer: Our Eco Manifesto
Jess Fox and Hound The Dog Grocer: Our Eco ManifestoAs we’ve already covered in previous posts, dog ownership is, unfortunately, not always compatible with environmental friendliness (in fact, owning a medium sized dog has been estimated to have roughly the same...
Environment vs nutrition: is it always a trade off?
Environment vs Nutrition: is it always a trade off?As we’ve already covered in previous posts, the environmental impact of owning a dog can be quite significant. Most studies conducted on these impacts to date have tended to focus on the pet food industry in...
What does it mean to be an environmentally friendly dog owner?
What does it mean to be an environmentally friendly dog owner? Bad news dog owners: the verdict is in, and it is official: owning pets (particularly dogs), is terrible for our planet! Research from Earth.org suggests that an average sized dog generates 770kg of CO2...
Low Waste vs Zero Waste: what’s the difference?
Low Waste vs Zero Waste: what’s the difference?First things first, to be clear, in our current global set up, there is no such thing as a true zero waste lifestyle. Zero waste is, at the moment, a goal, or an aspiration, that we should all be working towards in the...