My dog doesn't smoke!!

[Tink]

During our morning walk a woman stopped and asked to pet Luke. I said sure and put him in a sit. She reached down to pet his chest, (under his chin). Naturally his head down followed to sniff her hand. She started asking me questions, I looked up to her face and Luke jumped back! I looked at him and he went right back to a sit, and the woman tried to pet him again... when I noticed a cigarette in her hand. The one she was trying to pet him with!
Luke is allergic to smoke. He jumped back as she reached out the second time. I told her that my dog doesn't smoke, and please do not put the cigarette in his face. She huffed at me and made a comment and walked away. I checked him out and sure enough, there's a small burn under his chin. Obviously he hit the lit tip when he tried to sniff her hand.
I feel soooo bad! I didn't notice the cigarette until he jumped. I'll watch much more closely now when people want to be "friendly". I hope he doesn't develope a fear now, he's been going thru the fear imprint period as it is.

 

[boxer-newbie]

I smoke but I don't do it when cassius is near me, same with my parents. It's bad enough that I do it, so I can imagine what it would do to a pup.

 

[ssleighter]

What kind of idiot reaches out to pet a dog or puppy (or anything for that matter) with a lit cigarette in her hand?? I smoke too, but I would never get a lit cigarette near my babies! How awful that Luke got burned!! Give Luke some extra hugs and slobbers from Ginger and Hammer!

Sharon :D

 

[pearl]

Bella doesn`t allow smoking in her house, she barks like mad at anyone whom tries.
Luckily none of us smokes. :eek:

 

[Laurie_Duke]

My Dukie can't stand it either, we do not smoke in the house...and he likes it that way...

Oh I hope that Luke is OK...he will probally hate the smoke even more now....




Laurie

 

[Rowdy's Dad]

Rowdy huffed and backed away from a smoker once. He gives the "evil eye" to almost all smokers. I think he would growl at a ciggarette put in his face by a stranger.

 

[alygator]

Awe that is sad. I smoke too and Kiki hates it. For the most part we only smoke outside or in the bedroom and that is usually after the fubabies are sleeping. Kiki barks at it too.

Kiki sends slobbers!!

 

[MyGirlHeidi]

My husband smokes and Heidi can't stand it!! She will stand and bark at him! I wish that was all it would take to get him to quitsmokicon

 

[day214]

Brutus cannot stand smoke. If someone comes into his house and takes out a cigarette he will start to "sneeze" and hack and he will crinkle up his nose at them. THIS IS EVEN BEFORE IT IS LIT!!!!

My dog was the best therapy to quit smoking. Before I quit, he would literally hit me if I was smoking. He would come up and sit down next to me on the couch and then haul back and smack me. Followed by his poor me act. The sneezing and choking sounds. Don't get me wrong, I realize it may have bothered him so I would go outside or put it out. I realized it was an act when he would do the same thing if I pretended to smoke using an unlit cigarette.

They are such hams!!

 

[Rowdy Boys]

Greg smokes and it doesn't seem to bother the boys - but, he smokes outside and it's never in their face.

But, they hate cigarettes in general - they will curl their lips and bark if you show them one. I think even unlit cigarettes stink so I'm sure they probably smell 10x worse to the boys.