Now that I smoke substantially less my big burly cumbersome tough guy 16 lb cat (aptly named Barney before I got him because not only was he born in one but he turned out to be as big as one) has decided we have a magical invisible umbilical cord between us and he must now live on my lap. That’d work a bit better if A: Barney weren’t quite so huge B: Barney knew how to sit still Even when he’s (sorta) behaving I have to work around his massive frame (he’s ‘big boned’ plus fat), having and swimming in cat up to my armpits as I reach over to the desk and there is nothing quite like having a cat decide to nudge your sniff right off your hand just as you bring it to nose or having him bump your spooning hand from below it or spin himself around just in time to artfully dip the end of his tail in your tin just like a master painter going for the can with a brush (requring only the full 2 seconds you had it open for him to do it). Then there’s the whole thing where he just has to reach up with that fat paw and try to investigate and start biffing … oh Mighty Snuff Hunter Somebody looking on would probably have quite a chuckle to see this (and I think its funny too, even the way he exasperates me a bit with this or I wouldn’t be writing about it) eventually if I really want to get a sniff in peace I end up shoving him off me (he quickly puts my legs to sleep anyway) until he makes one off those ‘pisssed off meows’ and leaps back on me, and its rinse and repeat we (cat and I) used to have similar experiences when I was trying to use e-cigarettes (trying to fill cartridges and change out parts and maintaining the things)… It was then (after quitting smoking in here a while) that I discovered my cat really is a rather bright white and not a slightly dingy yellowed off color (for years and all the time before my cat had been colored a bit by my smoking, and I never even knew it until he wasn’t – I stiil feel bad about that) anyway, I just wondered if anybody else has any pet/snuff experiences, etc.
yes dogs and cats always think when I pull snuff from my pocket that it must be a treat. Then they look confused when I let them smell it.
I don’t know if that would work with Barney… he’s an alright cat, but he’s not the sharpest crayon in the box… really not sure he’d get close enough to get a sniff (those shiny 10g tins I think look like Cat Hockey pucks ripe for his goalie efforts)… if he did get in close enough to smell it I think it’d al most be certain to be followed by his sneeze, which would send even more snuff everywhere… and then we’d probably have to do it all over again in 15 minutes (due to his aforementioned crayola status) on an -cig forum there was a talk about the dangers of e-liquid for pets but if I recall I think that was mainly about vaporized PG (the very fluid that carries the nicotine etc) being specifically dangerous to cats and dogs… I suppose letting our pets actually get a wiff has some related menace of some sort for them too (most everything does. Did you know that chocolate can kill a dog and vitamin C/oranges can kill a cat?) Anyway, I don’t want to have to fight my potentially nicotine-addicted cat (once I got him started for letting him sniff) for my snuff (we already fight over my glasses, the tv remote, ear-clearing rubber droppers and plenty of other things that most normal cats would not be able to biff away to CatNeverNeverLand like this cat can)
My dog will come lay by me on the couch while I snuff in the evenings. He likes to sniff near my open tins, but has never tried to take a snuff. He also likes to lick the snuff residue off of my finger after pinching. I only let him do this very rarely, but when I do he gets super excited and runs around the room for a bit rubbing his nose into the carpet. Then he comes back and asks for more snuff.
My fish don’t like it. I think the LD50 for nicotine is about 1mg/kg. Be careful with your pets please as their physiology might not even be able to take that much. I think it’s been used to kill horses and cows too.
My first cat ate some redman chew once. I don’t know how he survived that seriously it would have hurt me terribly to eat the small amount he ate. Crazy cat that he was.
I’ve a cat that has decided that I belong to him. Normal for a cat. George will sit between me and the monitor, occasionally helping with keyboard duties. When the snuff comes out he is very polite. Waits until after I’ve had my bit and then proceeds to assess what it is that just went up my nose. Seems to be a very discriminating cat, my George. And very similar preferences to my own. He shows his appreciation of the varied snuffs with approval being repeated lingering smelling of my nose. Disapproval generally involves a close up view for me of his butt! Could be a new rating system? Mediocre snuff would be, say, worthy of 3 cat sniffs. Good one 5 sniffs. Not worth having, horrid, would earn a rating Cat Butt Snuff.
maybe he wants you to smell his butt. Which actualy may show displeaure or maybe he just wants to say I feel the same way about you mister my nose smells like roses.
And here I thought my cat loved me )-{ No, the Cat Butt is his reaction to less than acceptable snuff, must be, George is me buddy lol (-;
My dogs like to smell the containers but when I open them they turn away, my Vizsla starts sneezing like crazy. My Dogo Hektor seems to appreciate the scents more than Gunnar the Vizsla, he has been known to try and grab a tin here and there, I have to keep it put up so he cannot reach them.
I would add that you guys have not experienced issues with snuffing while having animals in your lap until you have tried to take a bit off the back of your hand while a 100lb Dogo Argentino tries to sit in your lap.
My black and tan coon hound hates my snuff tins, but her nose is very sensitive
@snuff_noob, my redtick coonhound hates open tins. She will try to knock them out of my hand, but really acts like she wants them when they are closed. Of course she’s a bit nutters anyway. She got one good sniff of some Tom Buck once! and sneezed for a few minutes, it was kind of sad and funny at the same time. My cats ignore snuff, except when they can steal a smashbox and play with it.
yeah an open tin around a hound dog is asking for it to be knocked around lol.
I’ve got three cats plus a couple of visitors who regard my house (and lap) as their own. Never had a problem - maybe English cats are more aware of snuff.
well it finally happened. I didn’t see it but ‘circumstantial evidence’ certainly suggests that my b ig lumbersome cat just took a toot of sniff. I was sitting here with a sort of a large cookie tin with various snuff tins (all closed) inside of it on the floor beside me when I heard a cat sneeze. I looked down to find barney standing at my feet and over the bigger cookie tin, not sniffing but just standing over it making a bunch more sneezes, more or less un-phased it was rapid-fie sneeze, look up at me, sneeze, look up at me again, sneeze again, look up at me. He just stood there nonplussed by his big row of kitty sneezes, I picked up the tin/tray, put it on a chair a bit more out of his reach, and he just lumbered off.
Hah! I’m glad my dogs aren’t the only ones who like to smell my snuff! They always seem more excited when I have my tins out. My Australian Shepard tries to lick my nose after I have a pinch.