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Organic Dog Biscuits - in cool blue walking tins

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Robbie  Dawg Organic Biscuits

RobbieDawg Organic Dog Biscuits from purrfectplay.com see pricing on their website

RobbieDawg are from New York bakers of handcrafted organic dog biscuits. They apparently use human grade ingredients — grass fed beef, antibiotic free poultry and even organic cheese. They look worth checking out and the tin is nicely designed to invite future reuse for whatever you might feel inspired to store in it.

Cat Upon Pet Mats from recycled materials

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Cat Upon
Cat Upon Pet Mats from Aster & Sage - unclear pricing, need to email company

The strong design and color harmony in this comfy looking cat mat compliments its eco-friendly aspects of it’s 78% recycled polyester and other materials. No info about if they’ll refund you if your cat isn’t interested. It would seem helpful if they included a price, don’t want to get into a situation that rhymes with the product!

Brazilian artist makes Dog collar and leash made from Soda Pop Tops

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

leash made from soda tops
Soda pop-top dog leash, ‘Red, White and Blue’ $34.95 from Novica

Neide Ambrosio, a Brazilian artisan, make artfully designed dog leashs apparently made from recycled Soda pop-top. When I first saw this leash online I worried these might not be as eco-friendly is one might hope, that maybe the tops were bought in bulk rather than found/post-consumer soda tops, the reason I wonder is that it looks so perfect and the sheer volume of so many different and equally wonderful items that she makes and with such a professional marketing that it gives the appearance of a much larger operation than one expects from a single local artisan. But as this article from Inside Bay Area about the increasingly popular Brazilian soda pop top crafts points out there are many co-ops which buy soda pop tops from local street people who scavenge for these tops. Hopefully this artist is getting a fair trade for her marvelous work. Neide Ambrosio provides a background story on the Novica site.

She also offers at Novica a “Shiny Pink” Soda pop-top collar for $28.95
Dog collar made from soda tops









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