Your Pets May Now Be Secret Climate Culprits - Check Their Carbon Pawprints

Worried about your carbon footprint?

I mean, I'm not. I'm not worried about my carbon footprint, or anyone else's, for that matter, except to occasional amuse myself and others by pointing and laughing at people like John Kerry and Al Gore wagging their fingers at me about my carbon emissions when they have a bigger carbon footprint than Belize - not to mention the other noxious emissions that they put forth every time they open their pie-holes.

Now, there's a new bit of carbon scoldery from the climate change doomsayers, and it has to do with your dog or cat.

Pets have a pretty sizable climate impact. But not all carbon...pawprints...are created equal. So if you’re looking to get a pet, which ones emit the least? And if you’ve already got one, how do you make sure it has the smallest foot (or paw) print? There are some options. pic.twitter.com/T7jliUMF0d
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 4, 2025

The proper response to this kind of nitwittery is "get lost," but it's amusing to look into the AP's claims a little further.

One of the most climate intensive decisions we make is whether to own a pet. It’s for the same reason that humans have a big impact: They eat every day. And most of them eat meat. The environmental impact of meat includes the land the animal lived on, the food it ate, the waste it generated and other factors.
“What else do pets do? We have to feed them. I think that that’s why it’s number one,” said Allison Reser, director of sustainability and innovation at the Pet Sustainability Coalition.
But just like people, a pet’s impact on the planet can vary greatly depending on their diet.

Yeah, and just like people, our pets have certain dietary needs; cats and dogs, for example, are obligate carnivores. They need meat. But look at that first sentence: "One of the most climate intensive decisions we can make is whether to own a pet." Really? That's what you're going with? Having a dog or cat can have a greater climate impact than what car or truck you drive, or where you live?

Really?

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Here's where it gets really dumb:

(Alison Manchester, assistant clinical sciences professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine) said it’s possible for dogs to be healthy on a vegan diet.
“Dogs can get plenty of protein and the right balance of protein without actually ingesting any meat,” Manchester said.
Cats rely more on animal products. Manchester said she doesn’t know of a balanced, commercially available vegan cat food. That means minimizing their impact comes from choosing less pollutive meat options when possible. Beef is the most pollutive protein. Chicken and fish are lower-impact, and plant-based options pollute the least.

"Pollutive?"

Maybe it's possible for a dog to be healthy on a vegan diet. It's possible for a human, with the aid of supplements. But we are omnivores. The human digestive system is basically a garbage disposal. We can eat almost anything except the coarsest vegetation and turn it into energy. But dogs need protein, and plenty of it; cats, even more so. Whenever you see someone with a "vegan cat," it is the same as someone with a "transgender toddler" - the first thing you know is that this wasn't the cat's, or the toddler's, decision.

This is a great example of what all the kids are calling a "First World Problem." Of all the woes troubling our nation and our world today, with wars, with repression, with poverty and hunger, with people being tied up and forced to listen to Kamala Harris speeches, there can be nothing so empty-headedly first-world than agonizing over your dog's carbon pawprint.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

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