Pet Care


The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
For your overall home improvement, you can save money, improve your family’s health, and save the planet. Find out for free how much it will cost to do different types of home improvement in your home from a qualified and member approved contractor in your area. Get a FREE Quote . Plus, regardless of the size and scope of your home improvement project, save money and keep your home clean with the top rated chemical free and concentrated Green Home Cleaning Products .

Category Checklist:
Make sure to consider the latest Home Improvement products and services. If you are doing the work yourself or planning on working with a home improvement contractor use this checklist below as a guide to review and ask questions about the preferred products, details, and installation techniques related to:
Pet Care:
Pet Hair Removal and Grooming, Pet Oder Removal, Dog Houses, Dog Beds, Dog Doors, Cats, Cat Doors, Declawing a Cat, Bird Cages, Fish Tanks, and Organic Pet Food.

Tips on Pet Care:
Make your home a welcoming environment for your animal friends. Pet care that is appropriate to your type of pet is simply key to a healthy home. The range of new organic pet food and accessories has exploded over the past few years.

Go Clean and Natural with BAKING SODA: Sprinkle a little bit of baking soda on your carpets, let sit for 10 minutes before vacuuming. Baking Soda will deodorize and absorb odors.

Just for Cat lovers…
You may love your cats, but not so much the litter duty that comes along with your furry friends. Clumping cat litters are the most popular, holding great appeal because they are so convenient. Traditional clay based kitty litters are convenient because they are “scoopable”, due to the addition of sodium bentonite and the naturally swelling clay. When wet that clay expands to 15% of its original (dry) size. But what many pet-owners don’t realize is that traditional kitty litters are a burden on our already overflowing landfills. Across the US, over 2 million tons of non-biodegradable cat litter ends up in municipal landfills each year. The traditional clay variety litter also contains quartz silica (sand), a known carcinogen when inhaled by both humans and pets. The clay litter mostly comes from strip-mining, so that rounds out the unfortunate combination of landfill waste, health risk, and natural landscape depletion.

Switching to cat litter derived from plant-based materials is easier than you think. As our demand for healthier options for ourselves and our pets has increased, so too has the number of products on the market. Commercially-available products using corn, pine shavings, cedar, and recycled newspaper are excellent healthy green alternatives. Using non-toxic litter is the best alternative to traditional litters in that it doesn’t create dust, and it is made from a renewable resource which is 100% compostable. Save your lungs and the landfill.

Some of the natural litters favored by eco-enthusiast and cats alike include:
  1. Swheat Scoop (made from natural wheat)
  2. Feline Pine (pellets made of leftover sawdust pellets)
  3. Yesterday’s News (made from pellets made of recycled newspaper)
  4. Arm and Hammer Essentials (made from biodegradable corn fibers)

In choosing your eco-litter, also think about the Litter Box, because certain types of material have certain advantages. As an example, Feline Pine makes a self cleaning litter box. The “revolutionary” litter box uses an elevated insert with holes specifically sized to remove the used sawdust into the holding box below.
Beyond the Litter: To wrap your cat in the glow of green living, check out the offerings that are now increasingly available online. Cat Kit. All the tools you need to make your own chemical-free cat products. Your cats will thank you!

Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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