Vaping, and pet birds...

[BEEFENHAUZER]

Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but, here goes.

I currently have a pet conure, Kiwi, and i know that second hand smoke is extremly bad for birds as their lungs are overly sensitive to it. As a result i never smoked in the same room as Kiwi. I also know that there is no second hand smoke with the ecigs, but does anyone know if there is any thing in the vapor cloud you exhale that could be harmful to a bird? Kiwi is always on my shoulder and is always curious about it.

Any vapors that are also bird owners notice any issues?

 

[washvap]

Hope you get your answer from someone that owns a bird. I've vaped around all sorts of pets (all dogs and cats though) that my friends have and not one of them showed any signs of problems or even cared about the vapor in the air.

 

[erich]

Might be easier to find definitive answers about what's particularly bad for bird in cigarette smoke.

Exhaled vapor isn't smoke in the literal sense of the word. Smoke is very small particles of the burned material that is light enough to stay in air but is still technically a solid, which is why it tends to cling to your clothes and such. Vapor is evaporated liquid. It does contain nicotine, but little else. Worth looking in to whether nicotine is one of the things in cig smoke that's bad for them.

I'd also be interested to know if size matters in this case. If you administer some normal dose of a drug to a 150lb. human, the same dose of just about anything would probably kill an 8 oz. bird. e.g. 2 Advil tablets. However, airborne substances may even out in that regard since they breath vastly less air as well.

 

[Morgythekilla]

I have a cockateil, Bochelli. The vape doesn't seem to affect her. I wish my bird liked to chill on my shoulder

 

[sppowers]

I have a friend that vapes with her parrot all the time. I know not all birds are the same though, be carefull!

 

[BluSwatch]

My dog (a sheltie) runs from the room when I vape ..... think he can smell the nic? He should like the vanilla or caramel flavoring.

 

[intime]

My cat freaks just at seeing the vapor, she was a stray that adopted us & I think she reacts from something in her past tho.

 

[CUOFFRDGA]

The boy Min-Pin use to sneeze when we went out for a smoke, now he licks the air trying to taste what I'm Vaping.

 

[DaveP]

This thread talks about exhaled vapor analysis and what it contains. Something like 1% to 1.5% of exhaled vapor is nicotine.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...9160-analysis-electronic-cigarette-vapor.html

 

[Roach]

Birds are pretty sensitive. Don't use teflon pans. My budgie got a respiratory problem because teflon leaches chemicals into the air when cooking. I'd be a little careful about vaping around a bird.

 

[locke2121]

My english pointer sniffs my Minnesota Menthol vapor lol. I think she is reacting to the natural sugars in the VG!