MYVAPOR | Do you vape around your pets? How careful are you with e-liquid and nicotine?

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I was looking into this recently after wondering how much attention most of us actually pay to vaping around cats and dogs.

Most discussions seem to focus on vapor in the air, but I found myself more concerned about the obvious stuff: e-liquid spills, nicotine bottles, used pods, leaking devices, and where everything gets stored.

I ended up reading through quite a bit of information and put together what I found here:

For those of you with cats or dogs, what precautions do you normally take?

Do you keep your mixing supplies/liquids completely out of reach, or have your pets ever shown any interest in your vape gear?

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Well, I like research as much as you appear to, but I hate typing:)

I never even gave a thought to my pets. Never crossed my mind.

I guess my pets got lucky. The wife won’t let me vape in the house or her car. (I don’t drive)

I was unable to switch nicotine from cigars, to vape because my lungs were so trashed that I lost a couple lungs from coughing fits. I bought a couple bags of sugar free suckers and used those for the hand and mouth disease, and used the patch to get off the nic for a few weeks.

Smoking WAS done with the animals around, so I’m sure they’ve been exposed to plenty of nic. I smoked Swisher sweets, which google claims 1 cigar is worth 10 cigarettes. 10 cigars a day.

Again, I think they got lucky. All my vaping and mixing is done in the garage as was my smoking. I live in central California. We have 2 seasons. Brown and browner. Okay, we get spring and fall, but they don’t last long. Winter is cold. To me. 50 degrees is freezing to us.

It’s not like L.A. where the weathers pretty nice, this area is a desert. LONG summers of triple digit heat. But it’s a dry heat. Kinda like a Bon fire is.

So, I have a heat pump heating and cooling system that runs 8 months out of a year, and a ceiling fan on high year around. The rest of the time, windows and doors are open so the air is moved well and sucked out of the garage. However, the garage is very well insulated. Even the garage door has that pink foamular.

Long story short, I WAS abusing them, but I don’t think it was as bad as second hand smoke in a car or the house.

My mixing equipment is out of reach as are vaping equipment and the dogs have never shown any interest in either.

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Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad your pets seem to have gotten lucky.

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I didn’t get so lucky as the dogs. I should have named them “pun.” That way I could call them a “bad pun”!

I got luckier than the dogs. The woman I’m married to said I do!

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I’m pretty careful about this, especially with e-liquid and refill bottles. I never leave bottles, pods, or devices somewhere my pets can reach them, and I try to vape outside rather than around them.

I think the storage side is easy to overlook because a bottle sitting on a desk doesn’t seem particularly interesting, but curious pets can get into things surprisingly quickly. Keeping everything in a secure place and cleaning up any spills straight away seems like a simple precaution.

I’ve also found that it’s worth being mindful of where used pods and empty bottles go. I wouldn’t want a pet finding one in the bin or on the floor. From what I’ve read, accidental ingestion of nicotine-containing liquid can be dangerous for pets, so I’d rather be overly cautious than take the chance.

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Totally agree! It’s easy to overlook things like where bottles or used pods are left, but pets can be curious about anything. Better to be extra careful, especially when nicotine is involved.

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