SEATTLE - Dog owners are reacting with giggles to a new report that dogs create a larger ecological footprint than an SUV.
The study by Robert and Brenda Vale, two sustainable-living researchers from New Zealand, bases its claim mostly on what dogs eat.
The study says the land it takes to produce the 360 pounds of meat and 210 pounds of grain a medium-sized dog consumes each year, is twice as much land that would be required to produce the energy to power an SUV for a year.
Some local researchers are snickering at the premise and its narrow scope.
Most dog owners we spoke to at a Seattle dog park laughed it off as goofy science.
