How does Vaping Effect Dogs?

[eebant]

I'm not sure if this is relevant to this thread but here goes. I have a cat that's a dwarf. She's a barn cat that I brought in about 3 years ago because she was so small, that I thought she couldn't make it through the winter in the barn.

She's full grown now and only 5 pounds. Believe me, not thin or sickly, the vet says she's fine. But anyway, she'd come sit on my lap for a while but soon after I'd light a cigarette, she'd jump off my lap. Every time!

Fast forward till now, that I've not had a cig in 6 weeks. In the past few days, she's been staying on my lap for about an hour and a half, with vaping. She kinda looks at the vape? But stays on my lap.

It's not bothering her the way cigarette smoke did. She is definitely distinguishing between the two.

So I'd say that she has animal sense and knows what's good and what is not. Not like us....

 

[Lana79]

Maybe a bit off - I have a pet rabbit. He is 3 year old angora, has no cage, sleeps with me, currently sitting in my lap (climbed himself).

Whenever I get an analog, he doesn't approach me until I finish and the smell decreases. When smokers come over, he sneezes like crazy (actually, rabbits' sneeze is both sneeze and cough) and goes away to bedroom or terrace. He never approached me while I had been smoking analogs (when the thing was lit in my hand and burning, although we never had an accident where he was burned), but now he's all over me. Which can be inconvenient at times... I just exhaled some vape towards him and he didn't even blink.

Knowing that rabbits have sensitive lungs (first house rabbit killer being hearth attack from being scared, second being sniffles, followed by bowel congestion by hairballs they cannot hack up like cats), it indicates a thing or two. Also, he brings me stuff - he never brought me an analog that rolled under my desk, but if my drip tip rolled under, he would bring it.

 

[roadkill46]

my dogs don't care except when i switch to DIY "Gravy Train" then they are all over me! my chocolate lab has allergies to everything but had them since he was a pup so it is not vaping. other dog is an old but spunky cocker who doesn't seem to mind.

 

[Maestro]

I can't believe how insensitive you people are. Don't you know that vaping is a gateway to chewing on table legs? They get splinters, and kicks from the owners for wrecking the furniture. Next thing you know they're homeless and chewing on any wood they can find, even unregulated sticks they find on the ground.

Please protect the dogs!!

 

[sawtoothscream]

my one dog hates it and the other doesnt care. think the one is afraid of the vapor. I try not to vape around them and if I do, I sit next to the window so it blows out as soon as its exhaled.

 

[alisa1970]

To clear up any misconception on the whole cats and vaping thing:

Propylene glycol is used as a
moistening agent in many animal food
applications, but not in cat food. Although
propylene glycol is not used in cat food, the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
still considers it “generally recognized as safe”
(GRAS) for use in human food and all animal
foods other than for cats1
.
Most cat food producers stopped using
propylene glycol in 1992 when data indicated a
unique sensitivity of cats to propylene glycol.
Specifically, studies found that large doses of
propylene glycol when fed to cats can produce
an abnormality known as “Heinz body” in the
cats’ red blood cells. Although Heinz bodies
only appear to shorten the lives of feline red
blood cells, FDA expressed concern that the
bodies could cause anemia in cats2
.
In a final rule in 1996, FDA declared
propylene glycol in or on cat food not generally
recognized as safe.
Available data indicate that only cats
appear to be sensitive to Heinz body formation
from propylene glycol exposure. Heinz body
formation from propylene glycol has not been
observed in dogs, cattle, or humans. While
changing regulations to end the cat food use of
propylene glycol, FDA noted that the
compound continues to be GRAS when used in
accordance with good manufacturing or feeding
practice for all species other than cats3

.
This is a specific type of anemia that occurs also if cats ingest onions and garlic. The red blood cells can't stay cohesive, burst, and the cat's body cannot produce enough RBC to replace the dead ones.

This being said, I vape mostly 50/50 juice, and after about 6 months had my cat in for his first senior checkup. I vape inside with the windows closed most of the time, as it is cold and wet here most of the year. I asked the vet to check for Heinz bodies, and he was given the all-clear--so clearly the concentration in vapor is so low that there is little risk of harm.

It's not an allergy, it is a life-threatening condition that vaping does not appear to cause.

 

[GaryInTexas]

I can't believe how insensitive you people are. Don't you know that vaping is a gateway to chewing on table legs? They get splinters, and kicks from the owners for wrecking the furniture. Next thing you know they're homeless and chewing on any wood they can find, even unregulated sticks they find on the ground.

Please protect the dogs!!

Buddy was eating firewood before I ever started vaping. I think this is just another ugly rumor stated by the ANTZ.

 

[raspberryblu]

Ok, went to the barn where I board my horses. I was vaping kiwi strawberry and my friend's horse was trying to follow me and kept putting his nose on my clearomizer. It was pretty funny.....

 

[Tom Servo]

Vigilant schnozzhound sometimes bats an eye at the clouds, but she doesn't seem to mind the smell one way or another.

I wouldn't risk exposing her to nicotine directly (nor caffeine or chocolate), but I doubt being in the same room causes significant exposure.

 

[Coelli]

We have 4 dogs in the house (our 3 plus a foster) and none of them seem to care about it. They are all quite healthy other than the (genetic) autoimmune disorder the foster has, and she's improved leaps and bounds since she came to us a few months ago.

 

[Way2Gone]

Ok, well so far I am getting really good responses about the dogs. So that is good to hear. This will hopefully help out alot of people wondering.

Obviously there are not fact sheets of data from 100 +years of exposure, but it sure does draw the line for the most part. From what I am getting, only a few people have said that there dog ran away and that could of been from the flavor, which, depending on what you are vaping, can sometimes have a smell that a dog might not like, this tends to make me think only certain flavors are what in any case "might" discourage" the dog to run away. But for the most part, dogs don't seem to not mind to much. (unless you blow it directly in there face on purpose, but who would honestly do that day in and day out?)

My dog honestly sleeps for hours and we have had no problems from my dogs what so ever.. she doesn't even tend to run away or even notice what I am doing. So I mean this is probably like an airfreshner to some dogs lol. Who knows for sure though.

I always like to learn. Nothing wrong with that. 50 years from now, hopefully, if vaping is still the futuristic way of what "smoking" once was, we will know hopefully 10 times more than we do now, which is only a good thing in my opinion.

 

[Dave379]

My dog used to always walk away from me when I lit up an analog but now that I'm vaping he doesn't budge. I always try to make sure the vapor doesn't go his way but there's been a couple of times when it did and he still didn't try to move. He would always move when smoke got close to him. I'm not saying its a good thing to vape around your pets but I feel that its a whole lot safer than smoking around them.

 

[Coelli]

I kinda feel like if anyone's going to be able to tell there's something bad in it, it's a dog!

 

[jensy]

My three dogs don't mind a bit and they are all very healthy. If I am vaping something sweet like cinnamon buns my one dog comes and assumes the beg position right in front of me expecting to get a piece.