The English Garden at gardenshrines.com offer a wonderful way to pay tribute to all the love and joy your pet provided throughout his or her life. You can further personalize these shrines by decorating it with flowers, favorite toys, cookies, bird seed and hang a special photo inside. Their website states: “We build our shrines with care and thought, using recycled materials, and hope they bring you joy and peace”

Earthdog hemp products Hemp & Recycled Fleece Blankets 96.00 (free shipping)

EARTHDOG says their blankets are the perfect blend of earth friendly hemp canvas and soft, sumptuous recycled fleece. Comes in a gorgeous range of 6 different colors and uses heather fleece. Measures 42″ x 58″ Nice enough to use yourself or to snuggle together with your dog while you watch scary movies like “An Inconvenient Truth”

Here’s an article about a teen who made a hamster powered phone charger! Here’s another link to a video that shows how to make a rodent powered night light.

If you don’t like the idea of exploiting the good will of our furry rodent friends then maybe this will suit your fancy. A hamster toy that your cat will love watching! Ever worry about the futility of it all - the hamster wheel of modern living? Here is a great way to show your angst! A USB powered hamster wheel that is connected to your keyboard - the faster you type the faster the hamster runs the wheel… An expensive chuckle at 45 bucks but check it out.

The Return of the Solar Cat by Jim Augustyn 14.95 plus $4.05 shipping (purchase from Solar Cat Website)
To help balance out that bad-boy water wasting cat on our last post’s video - here is a book about cats doing all the right green things. The author, Jim Augustyn states from his website: ” It’s based on the idea that cats know a lot more about solar energy than people do, and that people can learn a lot about solar energy from cats. It pokes fun at people, cats, their habits and addictions, explaining the elements and language of solar energy, its history and even a little about its politics, in a gentle, often subtle way that wanders from the serious to the silly.”
The Los Angeles Times says of this book:
“…we learn about the similarities between cats and solar collectors; we learn about the insulating value of fur; and pretty soon we learn that “The Solar Cat Book” is as much about solar energy as it is about cats. The joke is on us - but it is a pleasant joke, a wry and witty joke, and a gently instructive joke, too.”
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