Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment. In an interview with The Guardian, the lead author of a wide-ranging review of canine environmental effects suggested that pet dogs may be as harmful to their surroundings as cats. "To a certain extent, we give a free pass to dogs because they are so important to us," Bill Bateman of Australia's Curtin University told the newspaper, "not just as working dogs but also as companions." Though there has been far less research about pet dogs as environmental threats […]