Vaping around animals?

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Kent C

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Maybe a bit over the top. But I am worried now, I try to restrict my cats to a separate room when I smoke. I've been vaping around them, and while I'm sure my secondhand vapor isn't very toxic, I'm concerned about the long term. Also, who hasn't had the occasional leak? My juice list reads like a kids shopping cart...

Just keep your juice secure and out of their way. If you're cat is like mine, they like some sinks - don't use that sink for cleaning your stuff. clean up all spills immediately, don't put an ecig out where if it would leak, they could get at the puddle.

That said, animals in general are pretty smart about what they eat touch etc. but they do groom and lick if they get into something. Onions and acetominophin have similar reactions in cats as PG btw. Cat food with antioxidants help combat effects of PG, but ask the vet or read up on it online.

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oh my god! that's insane! good thing i put my bottles in a safe place. i shouldn't worry about vaping in the same room or around my animals, should i?


I am disabled and live on my couch. I have 2 cats and 2 dogs and I vape with them in my lap all the time and there have been no negative side effects. I am careful to put everything up when I go to sleep or leave the house though because if they do ingest it they will die. Just use your head and keep stuff put up just like you would if you have children and things will be fine.
 

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I am disabled and live on my couch. I have 2 cats and 2 dogs and I vape with them in my lap all the time and there have been no negative side effects. I am careful to put everything up when I go to sleep or leave the house though because if they do ingest it they will die. Just use your head and keep stuff put up just like you would if you have children and things will be fine.

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Well everyone is careful with your juice but how many of you actually go wash your hands after a leak? or do you just rub it on a paper towel or rub your fingers together. I have been very careful with this from day one I know nicotine is poison and I also read the post by the guy whose dog got into the juice delivery.

I have a very small dog he weighs almost 3 pounds I am quite sure it would not take much to poison him maybe just what occurs from a leak who knows anyone? I am quite sure the same would be true for a small child or any non smoker what does not affect us as ex smokers can make a non smoker very sick.
 

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A quick Google search of "vegetable glycerin cat food" answered my question. It is an ingredient in cat food and treats. Since the only batch of juice I have is all 5ml bottles after this I'll just have to switch.

Are you vapeing 0 nic juice? If not you still have the nicotine which can harm the animal.

I'm not suggesting anyone freak out hear, just take care. Household cleaning products could harm our animals, so I'm just saying use the same care you use with them around your animals.
 

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This is a very good and interesting topic to have.

I used to smoke (analogs) inside and my massive bold 16 lb cat Barney ("born in a barn and as big as one too") hated it, stayed away from me when I smoked and since vaping I have definitely noticed a change in our relationship -- he's much more stuck to me, much more interactive, tries to jump on me a bunch more, etc., and I can pick up a PV and vape on it and he does not lunge off my lap etc but stays there. I haven't really ever blown a vape exhale on him (the way I vape and the PVs I have don't let out really big clouds anyway), but I will make it a double point to be sure never to do that to him.

Barney's a bit too fat to get himself up where my E-liquid sometimes sits (I sometimes have one bottle sitting on my computer desk where after the monitor there also really isn't enough room for him to even stand his puffy fluffy fat body even if he were to get up here).

Onions and acetominophin have similar reactions in cats as PG
I also didn't know this. I had heard that chocolate can kill dogs and I think I'd heard that an orange can kill a cat (cats don't know what to do with vitamin C I guess is why), but that said there is news. Not a lot of onions happen to be in here and its generally pretty tidy in here out of necessity (because I am also multiply disabled, including visually and physically) but I will watch anew if I get out any Tylenol etc too.

Barney is the resident floor patrol, anything that lands there is entirely subject to his inspecting/bapping (for a middle aged cat he's absolutely never given up his playfulness or his curiousity).
 
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I am sorry to hear someones dog died that is such a shame.

When I first started with the 901 my dog took great intrest in it , he would come up and literally sit on my knee peering at it as I sucked.
38kg GSD so I got squished in the process.

I figured out it was not the LED or the vapour but the weird gurgeling sucking sound I was making :rolleyes: once I mastered vaping he lost intrest .

He did steal a bottle of liquid and got the top off it.
He spat it out lept back looked at it as if it bit him :shock: and then turned to me with a confused what you eating that for you are nuts look.
He has never gone near it again.

It was only a small plastic bottle about 5ml 14mg strength and most of it was still there.

I quickly grabbed him and washed his mouth out so luckily no harm done.

If by any chance your animal does swallow a bottle of it, try make them sick asap - milk I read also apparenty helps neutralises it in the stomach and go directly to the vets dont wait for symptoms to show up it will be too late.
 

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Are you vapeing 0 nic juice? If not you still have the nicotine which can harm the animal.

I'm not suggesting anyone freak out hear, just take care. Household cleaning products could harm our animals, so I'm just saying use the same care you use with them around your animals.


I'll still be putting them in another room while I vape for the time being, and switching to a vg juice. I'm not a vet, and slept through all my biology classes, but it sounds like the PG may have long term effects from HzB. If ten years from now it turns out that PG vapor is such a low concentration (and I suspect it may be) that the damage is negligible, then I won't have lost any sleep for 3,650 nights. The girlfriend wants to switch to VG anyways. Also, I was discussing this with my girlfriend, but it didn't make it to my original post. One of my cats is glued to my lap most nights, and I have dripped with her sitting in my lap. So, my first thought was "Good thing I didn't spill any."
 

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Well everyone is careful with your juice but how many of you actually go wash your hands after a leak? or do you just rub it on a paper towel or rub your fingers together. I have been very careful with this from day one I know nicotine is poison and I also read the post by the guy whose dog got into the juice delivery.

I have a very small dog he weighs almost 3 pounds I am quite sure it would not take much to poison him maybe just what occurs from a leak who knows anyone? I am quite sure the same would be true for a small child or any non smoker what does not affect us as ex smokers can make a non smoker very sick.

Actually, I keep a box of baby wipes beside the couch and use them any time i get juice on my hands. It wouldn't do me much good to get juice on my hands, get up, put my hands on my crutches and walk to the kitchen to wash my hands, then put my clean hands right back on the dirty handles and then pet my animals with juice still on my hands after all that trouble.
 

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My cat absolutely loves it when he thinks I'm firing up the PV. Yesterday I was practicing blowing vapor rings and had a really good one that sort of floated around for quite a while. My cat followed it and did the same twitchy move cats do when they see a bird in a tree. Now he comes running when he sees me pick up the PV and he sits there all attentive when I try to make rings (I'm not very good at it). He doesn't try to catch them. He just seems to like to watch them. If I thought he was going to somehow inhale any of it I wouldn't do it.

In all other respects he's a normal cat. By that I mean: I can use any tone of voice from begging to authoritative and if I say, "Come here," he decides it's a good time to either groom himself or leave the room. Anything but listen to me, in other words.
 

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This clinches it then, I am taking my pet monkeys vaporizer away from him. I got him one since he was so fascinated with mine, and I felt guilty since I was the one who taught him to smoke in the first place. He has been using it for a couple of weeks now and I might have a problem getting it back from him. I don't want to let Mr. Chuckles get hurt because of me, I would feel terrible.

Oh come on folks you didn't really think I would give a monkey a vaporizer did you? It was a joke, folks. I never thought of giving him my vaporizer, he would break it.
 
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