Hayley de Ronde

Animal Welfare & Behaviour Specialist

Covering Beds, Herts, Bucks & Beyond

Guest post for Let’s Talk Pets, by Emily Parker of Catological

While most of us have heard it takes a village to raise a child, it’s become more and more apparent in recent years that it also takes pets to raise great kids. Whether it’s helping to teach children compassion, responsibility, or help them become healthier or even future entrepreneurs, pets play a pivotal role in making sure our children have healthy and happy lives.

So even though it may look like only playtime when your child is playing fetch with Fido or sitting around petting Fluffy the cat, there may be much more happening than you ever anticipated. To learn more about how pets help raise great kids, here are some fascinating facts for your consideration.

I am a strong believer in avoiding chemical products wherever possible however, where animal hygiene is concerned, chemical products are a necessity for the prevention and reduction of disease.

Vitec Global Limited has launched two new products onto the UK Pet Market through Debonaire Exotic Animal Supplies, Pet Shield™ and Zoo Shield™.

These non-toxic, antimicrobial cleaning products use hydrophobic technology to destroy pathogens on contact “continuously killing 99.9% of bacteria”.

The Coca-Cola and WWF Arctic Home campaign was launched at the Science Museum Thursday 17th January 2013, with an interactive augmented reality experience that brought the issue of climate change, and the plight of the polar bear, to life. 

The polar bear has been an iconic marketing figure for the Coca-Cola company for 90 years, representing family and togetherness for the brand. It is for this reason Coca-Cola is pledging over £2.5million over 3 years to help conserve the home of the polar bear and to help ensure their plight is brought closer to home to consumers. 

The money pledged will be used to:

• Protect and manage what is left of the polar bears environment.
• Aid research into understanding polar bear population and habitat.
• Reduce conflict between man and polar bear, as habitat decreases.
• Fund a Polar Bear Summit, to highlight the issues it faces.
• Tackle climate change and educate on our interdependence with nature.

Raising awareness of climate change and the plight of the polar bear, Arctic Home forms part of a global partnership between Coca-Cola and WWF that began in 2007 to reduce the company’s carbon emissions and to facilitate water conversation and sustainable agriculture, by reducing Coca-Cola’s environmental impact. 

WWF are working to sustain the arctic home of the polar bear (and the many other species that require this unique environment to survive), but without government support their ability is limited. WWF is encouraging Arctic governments to hold a polar bear summit this year, to ensure the plight of the polar bear is highlighted.

The funds raised to aid the Arctic Home campaign, and the public interest generated, has the potential to attract high level attention from government leaders, with the potential to make positive changes to our future and that of the polar bear!