Pets and Vaping

[Lowstorm]

So, this may seem like a relatively strange question. But here goes!

I have sensitive animals in the house, which has kept me from smoking along with the kids indoors. Parrots and a saltwater reef tank.

Anyone else have the same, and do you hold yourself back around these types of pets, or not? Is the vapor harmful for them after it leaves your body?

 

[balbrt1]

I do not have a vet degree but worked in a vet clinic for quite some time. I have 3 dogs, 1 cat and 2 trop, fish tanks. 1 dog is a pug . these dogs can have breathing problems. I also have a shih tzu who is partlt blind and a Boston terrier. They all have smuched faces. I vape around them and none seem to have problems. I worked in a clinic with 5 vets and my boss was one of them. I asked him one day what he thought. He said in his opinion what I am vaping will not hurt any of my babies. That is the info I go with. Of course he may have told me that to make sure i stayed away from the analogs...LOL. I trusted him with all my fur babies' lives. Hope that makes you feel better...BTW I just retired from the clinic in Feb and they continue to be my vets....

 

[gpfwestie]

I have found Parrots and other pets are not interested in Vaping themselves Nor are they concerned about you smoking 40 Cigs a day, or Vaping whatever.

I try to Vape in the same places I would smoke (away from the kids, backgarden etc) - not for health, or moral reasons - but because that replicates what I did when Smoking.

I feel the continuity will help me to associate vaping with smoking, and therefore reduce the chance of relapse (having a cigarette).

I don't think I'm answering your question here, sorry.

 

[Lowstorm]

Well, the thing with parrots is that they have an entirely different 'lung' structure in comparison to mammals. They have air sacs vs lungs-that's why I cannot cook with teflon pans (over heating the teflon at all releases vapors that can burst their sacs, causing them to internally bleed and die. NOT something I want to go through, I use cast iron) The fish tank I'm less worried about-I have high tech filtration systems on it that should beable to handle anything that accidentally happens.

 

[eagarcia123]

my dogs try to lick the vapor. seems like they like the smell of ectoplasma.

 

[hillsy]

Couldn't really say either, I was brought up with animals on a farm and know birds suffer from a few respitory problems. Might be (probably) wrong but I think birds take more air in than we do, deeper than we do, into hollow bones which makes them light enough to fly?
Wouldn't have thought dogs would have a problem, along with the farm dogs, terriers, we had a shih tzu (rescued). I think if they don't like it they're clever enough to go somewhere else.

 

[Lowstorm]

No, they don't breathe into the hollow bones, but their respiratory systems are a lot more efficient than ours. that's why I was curious if anyone had first-hand knowledge.

 

[gpfwestie]

Canary's were used in mines to detect CO, Methane and C02.

But at the point they carped it, was not far off a human lethal doses.

Way way more millions of parts per million than you could force into their lungs by giving them mouth to mouth after a vape (or in fact a normal cigarette).

 

[bruiser]

There was a poster on here who seemed to know quite a lot about parrots and other avians. He made some posts about birds and vaping. He was of the opinion it didn't hurt them. Think he even had a couple of parrots.

My cat watches the vapor, and sometimes swats at it. My dog pays no attention to it at all.

 

[Lowstorm]

Oh cool. Do you remember his name by any chance? lol. I'll do an in-depth search for it.

 

[Natalia]

No, they don't breathe into the hollow bones, but their respiratory systems are a lot more efficient than ours. that's why I was curious if anyone had first-hand knowledge.

If you don't get a response from another parrot owner, I would post in Ask The Veterans. I know we have some ECF veterans who are bird owners.

Best to you.

 

[Lowstorm]

Thanks! I think I've found a good thread already made. Shoulda just done a search first. Very informative, this site! And all this info at the fingertips, makes me go crazy

 

[Nancy Jarrell]

hi im new here and this is my first post. my son referred me and his dad and other of our family members here and gave us some of his extra ecigs to use and try them out. there is a guy on you tube called outlaw vapor who posts all kinds of videos about ecigs. most of his videos he has a parrot flying around the room and he swears it doesnt bother the bird. i cant say that is proof that it is safe around birds but its something to consider.

 

[Lowstorm]

Hey, I saw one of his vids today. Now I'll have to watch more. AND I finally found our pet owners forum here, so that'll be nice to browse too, although all the threads are old

 

[hillsy]

I'm confused..
Forum for new users, great, ie. people who don't really know a lot about vaping.
Asked a question which he obviously knows more about (birds, parrots and other avian stuff), than anyone else, why ask the question?

 

[Lowstorm]

I know a lot about bird physiology, but nothing about vaping. Therefore, its a newb question. (And reading a dozenish threads, even other parrot owners don't know. So seems its a great unknown)

 

[hillsy]

Fair enough, too- shay! (very much doubt that's how it's spelt). Don't really have much to do with the avian side of things, my sister sorts out the livestock, I do the horti/ agric stuff (latin plant names etc on request)...

 

[Lowstorm]

Heh, and I used to beable to give the latin names on mammals. former biology student. (I sorta failed out of my senior year, and decided to NOT go back, as there's no jobs. that was 10 years ago, and there's STILL no jobs)

 

[hillsy]

No same here, still no jobs for knowing anything that should be useful, I trained in engineering for our (only) big aerospace guys... Waste of time, I'm better off sticking with the family business, I do enjoy it more than I thought I would do though...

 

[Lowstorm]

heh. I wipe old people .... for a living, you've done better than me.