What is your opinion of the recent article on the carbon footprint of pets? (Link below).?

What total nonsense.I think the Creator knows whats best for His creation.

This is just another theory in an attempt to diminish the importance of a Supreme Being and to overestimate the power and intelligence of man.

I just read that! I think it's a load of bull. The world has been around a long time. Do they think dinosaurs didn't poop or kill prey? Imagine the economic cost and environmental effects of euthanizing all domesticated pets in order to erase their carbon footprint, not to mention the psychological effect on pet owners. "Fancy Feast...made from choice cuts of meat". They probably transported themselves in hummers and airplanes whilst conducting the study. Just stupid people looking to point a finger away from themselves.

Of course, I do advocate keeping pets inside and managing feral cat colonies through TNR, ect but this is ridiculous.

Next they'll say we need to kill off all the wild animals because they're wasting space and preying on birds and other creatures too.

It honestly sounds like PeTA propaganda. Maybe not directly, but I'm sure they had a hand in this.

Cats and dogs have to be fed. What we can do to minimize their destruction is not overpopulate them, and keep them indoors like they said in that article. Humans can choose to be vegan and so reduce our carbon footprint but animals, especially carnivorous animals like cats, have to eat meat, and that's just how it is.

Wow - they really will attack anything - should I check the carbon footprint of my human family and have them put down as an unnecessary extravagance too?

I think what they will do is introduce a 'carbon tax' on cats and dogs to account for this. According to the EPA, Co2 is a pollutant so has to be controlled and the effect mitigated. I would say $100 per pet per year would be enough to start with.

Phooey!

What a bunch of crap. Must have been a slow news day.