Safety Tip For Dogs in Summertime: Please remember, if you bring your dogs outdoors during a hot summer day, as the day gets hotter pavement heats up much more than the air. Today it’s almost 100 degrees – we measured the pavement temperature and it was 141 degrees! This temperature can easily cause pain and… Read more »
Posts By: greendog
Giardia Recovery Tips
Friendly Reminder: spring is Giardia season! It’s important to try and prevent dogs from drinking from puddles and slow moving water. Giardia and other diseases that can be transmitted through contact with animal feces are prevalent this time of year (snow and ice is melting, releasing accumulated deposits, and the rain rinses fecal matter down… Read more »
‘Tis the Season For Fleas!
We’re coming up on a time of the year when fleas start to become more active. Here are a few quick tips to stay ahead of fleas (and ticks) effectively without harmful chemicals: Protect your yard Nematodes: When soil temperatures rise above 45 degrees for at least 2 to 3 weeks (spring, summer and fall… Read more »
Green Tip – Why You Should Avoid Farmed Salmon
When we are evaluating a pet food or treat to sell at the store, there is an (ever-expanding) list of ingredients that we will not carry, and farmed salmon is definitely one of them. Some items we don’t like because the ingredients are harmful to the environment, some because practices are inhumane or these animals… Read more »
A Discussion of Sustainable Choices in Foods for Pets
By Green Dog Pet Supply As a Green store, we of course are dedicated to sustainability, but that can be a real challenge with pet food. The larger a company is, the more difficult and expensive it is for them to source the most sustainable ingredients on a large enough scale to meet national… Read more »
Happy Earth Day! We Celebrated With a Green Upgrade!
By Green Dog Pet Supply When we first opened, one of the things we thought was a no-brainer was looking into LED or other efficient lighting options for the sales floor. As the first environmentally friendly pet supply store in the nation, we wanted to make sure that we did everything we could to design… Read more »
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