Living in a house with a smoker puts dogs, cats, and especially birds at greater risk of many health problems. Dogs exposed to secondhand smoke have more eye infections, allergies, and respiratory issues, including lung cancer.
However, secondhand smoke is not just dangerous for people...it is also dangerous for pets. Living in a house with a smoker puts dogs, cats, and especially birds at greater risk of many health problems. Dogs exposed to secondhand smoke have more eye infections, allergies, and respiratory issues, including lung cancer.
Your pets can be affected by wildfire smoke. If you feel the effects of smoke, they probably do, too! Smoke can irritate your pet's eyes and respiratory tract. Animals with heart or lung disease and older pets are especially at risk from smoke and should be closely watched during all periods of poor air quality.
The danger extends to an increased risk of lung cancer, stroke, and heart disease. "Living in a house with a smoker puts dogs, cats, and especially birds at greater risk of many health problems." However, secondhand smoke is not just dangerous for people ... it is also dangerous for pets.
If you're smoking a lot of weed in a non-ventilated room, your pet will likely not get high. However, that doesn't mean exposure to a lot of weed smoke is healthy for cats. Pets have sensitive respiratory tracts and smoke can cause irritation, leading to breathing issues such as asthma.
How do cats and dogs become intoxicated? Cats and dogs can become intoxicated by cannabis in various ways, by inhaling second-hand smoke, eating edibles (baked goods, candies, chocolate bars, and chips containing cannabis), or ingesting cannabis directly (in any form).
THC can be passed to infants and children through secondhand smoke, and people exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke can experience psychoactive effects, such as feeling high.
Yes. Just like humans, dogs can get high. This may be from secondhand marijuana smoke as well as ingesting marijuana or THC products. Marijuana will affect dogs in different ways than it does humans.