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Hi all. Would smoking in the same room as ur leo affect its respiratory system in any way???

Hello,

The answer to your questing YES anything that breaths smoking is bad for dont take this offensivly if you do smoke but I find us humans to be quite weird in the fact that we would do something to harm ourselves all living things struggle to survive eccept humans who put them selves in to high risk factors. As with any animals after a long period of time smoking will kill them. We had a latey come in the pet shop I worked at said her parkeet died 2 days after she bought it and the only reason she could think of was smoking.

Hope that helps
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-Aaron-
1.2 rainwater albinos
0.1 hypo tang
2.4 hi yellow
1.3 tremper albinos
0.1 blizzard
0.1 leusistic
2 eggs cookin
soon to be owner of
2 of mooses kids
1 tangerine revese stripe
2 patternless het for albinos

Since second hand smoke can kill humans, Im assuming it can kill little geckos, makes sense. Definately not a good idea to smoke around a gecko or any animal really. Later
Mac

peon!
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Danielle
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1.0 green water dragon, 0.4 leos, 1.0 adopted Iguana, 0.1 beardie,
2.0 green anoles, 1.0 blue anole, 1.0 Rosy Boa & 2.2 bettas ~My Pets~

When i went to pick up my group of geckos from the breeder she showed me a rescued gecko that had been owned by a smoker. She said it took many many sheddings for the leo to get the yellow colour of the smoke and the smell out of its skin.

Now i'm a smoker, although i'm trying to stop and i do smoke in the house. I do make every effort to reduce any smoke near the geckos though. They are all kept downstairs and the smoking is done upstairs.

Red
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)

NP Thx for ur replies Gilbery007