passive pet smokers

[Ms.Hijinx]

why don't the pets of smokers die of lung cancer caused by it?We are both mammals, we both breathe air but my vet says she has never come across it!!

[leaf]

Could it be that smoke rises and generally animals are on the floor. This being out of the smoke? My husband remembers when he was a child, he had a grandad who smoked, having to crawl under the smog of his pipe smoke!!!

[jiggy-gb]

Avian vets will tell you that birds can get lung cancer from owners smoking. They have very complex respiratory systems, 2 sets of lungs i think, which is why they can fly and squawk at the same time!
A friends budgie went through withdrawal symptoms with her when she gave up smoking, he was sooooo grumpy!

[mycats]

My friends have stopped smoking in their house because all the smoke made there chinchilla ill, they felt really guilty, they just hadnt realised. It's ok now though

[KZAB]

Some vets will tell you that it is definitely a problem. A friend's dog got lung cancer and the vet said it could be from passive smoking

[WendyS]

I'm convinced that animals really do suffer from passive smoking. My mother-in-law was an 80 a day smoker., even though her husband didn't smoke. Their cat was a highly strung spiteful little creature and so neurotic as to be unapproachable by anybody. Within six months of my mother's in law's death, she had become a completely different animal - gentle, and friendly to the extent that she would even let herself be stroked and cuddled.. We're convinced she was suffering from the second hand effects of niccotine and that once the effects of passive smoking had disappeared from her body, she had undergone a thorough detox.

[SteveD]

Pets are affected according to this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2165722.stm