The Best Dog Bed For Organic Living

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The Best Dog Bed For Organic Living

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If you’ve started living as green a lifestyle as you can, then you may now be wondering what would be the best dog bed for the environment. It’s clear that many of the websites with dog beds for sale aren’t using environmentally friendly materials. Many of the waterproof or puncture-proof covers, for example, will be made of synthetics, and the foam and filler inside them will often be synthetic as well. You may not even know what types of material really are eco-friendly. And if you do get a dog bed made of such materials, then how durable and cleanable will they be?

You don’t necessarily have to go all-organic immediately. Remember the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle), after all. The best dog bed for your new green lifestyle may actually be something recycled rather than something brand new and organic. Take the dog bed duvets, for example, at the Molly Mutt website (www.mollymutt.com). You might buy one of their rectangle dog beds, made of pre-shrunk, washable cotton, and then fill them with your own recycled fabrics, such as old blankets, rags and old clothes.

You may not want to use recycled materials, though, especially if they’re not organic. Plastic might still be out-gassing, for example, so perhaps you’ll want the bed for your pooch to be made from all organic materials instead. That may prove more difficult, since even most “eco-friendly” pet bed makers use recycled plastic in their cushions. But Doggy Archy (www.doggyarchy.com) may prove to be your answer, with its quality dog beds made of organic, sustainable and durable hemp fibers. The cushions are filled with kapok, a fluffy fibre made from the pods of the kapok tree. So these beds are completely organic.

Kenny Leichester is a foremost expert in the interior design industry specializing in the outdoor or patio settings using patio heaters, patio umbrellas, outdoor cushions, patio lighting and so on to create exquisitely beautiful layout. His work on patio umbrellas are widely distributed and is a regular contributor to PatioShoppers.com.

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