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Cat House – Green Feline Living

Executive Summery from article written By Jennifer Akre, the owner of simplycatsupplies.com

Cat House

What about the items owned by your pets? If you have a cat, you likely have cat house. While these may not seem like overly threatening items when you look at them, you also may not have thought what those cat house are made of.

Are your cat house painted? Paint doesn’t last forever. If the paint is toxic, that is being put into the soil around your home.

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Another thing to keep in mind is that your pets may well chew on cat house. That could mean the toxic chemicals in the paints are going into the body as they chew on the edges of their house.

Next, most cat houses are made of wood. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to saturate the wood with chemicals. These

chemicals can be toxic to your pets if they like to chew on the wood. Their chewing will release some of these saturated chemicals and they will absorb them into their body. The chemicals from these treated cat house will also leech into the soil around where the house are set.

Thankfully, there has been a massive growth in the number of eco-friendly cat house in the past few years as more and more people are looking for ways to lessen their carbon imprint. These house are made of materials that are either completely environmentally friendly, or are made of items that have been kept from landfills, like recycled plastic and PVC. The advances in recycled creations have come a long way and these types of cat house are being made in a number of styles and colors to suit even the most discerning or finicky feline.

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