Pets and Passive Smoke

[Tha-Flash]

I just did a survey about this.

I'm wondering if passive smoke really does have any affect on animals like cats or dogs. I don't smoke but my mum and dad do, I hope it's nothing major to worry about.

[HWKE]

My wife has smoked for 42 years. I have a cat which is 17 and very healthy. I also had the cat's mother until two years ago when she died aged 19 and my dog died a year before aged 17, so it doesn't seem to have affected our animals adversely

[tikkit]

I was told by the vet quite recently that all animals can suffer from anything that human beings suffer from, so I suppose that , like us, there are those who are more likely to succumb to disease than others?

[wildwood]

There is no doubt that dogs can get ailments from passive smoking. Probably other pets too.

Just because a pet in a smoker's home lives a long time it doesn't mean they can't suffer from it. Our last cat died at the ripe old age of 23, both my partner and I smoked at the time. My mother lived till she was 84, dispite my Dad smoking for the whole 51 years they were together, and he lasted until 72 - we were just lucky.

Hope you can stay off the siggies yourself. I am not anti-smoking, but believe me.... it is hard to stop once you started.

[Tha-Flash]

Its just my mum and dad who smoke. Glad I never started. :)