Smoking pets!

[Jenny]

We discuss how bad second hand smoke is for humans, but we don't talk about how bad it is for our pets.  Here's a list of the most common diseases found in pets who passive smoke.

 

• Breathing problems in dogs and asthmatic-like symptoms in cats
• Salivation
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Cardiac abnormalities
• Respiratory difficulties and respiratory paralysis
• Feline lymphoma in cats
• Lung cancer in dogs
• Nasal cancer in dogs
• Death: from 1-5 cigarettes and from 1/3-1 cigar can be fatal if ingested.

[Colleen]

This is sad, like children they have no choice but to breathe it in  :(

[Leanna]

Those poor babies. :(

 

I never even thought about this when I was a smoker. Ugh.

[JackiMac]

OMG how awful never even gave my wee cats a thoughts when I was smoking  :(

[BonnieJ]

I'm pretty sure I gave the best cat in the world cancer. I had to put him down at 13 years old because an oral cancer was eating away at his face. I have read 2nd hand smoke can cause this cancer. I will never forgive myself there will never be another cat like him. We smoked indoors for the first 5 years of his life and I am sure that 5 years was enough :(

 

We have lived in our house for almost 15 years  now and have never smoked inside so I will never have to feel this guilt for another animal. 

[Jenny]

I'm pretty sure I gave the best cat in the world cancer. I had to put him down at 13 years old because an oral cancer was eating away at his face. I have read 2nd hand smoke can cause this cancer. I will never forgive myself there will never be another cat like him. We smoked indoors for the first 5 years of his life and I am sure that 5 years was enough :(

 

We have lived in our house for almost 15 years  now and have never smoked inside so I will never have to feel this guilt for another animal. 

I'm so sorry ((((Bonnie)))))))   :(  My cat had to be put to sleep a year or so ago.  He had cancer and I am ashamed to admit, he wheezed quite a lot too.  It never even occurred to me and most of us I am sure that we were putting our pets at risk.  It's another good reason to keep our quits that's for sure.