Animal Welfare Professionals

We're looking to remove the question about smoking in an applicant's home from our adoption application.  However, we'd still like to make sure adopters are aware of the dangers of airborne irritants by adding a handout on the topic to our adoption packet.  Do any of you have handouts that you'd be willing to share on the dangers of any or all of the following: second-hand smoke, lightweight litter, aerosols, essential oil diffusers, etc?   

I don't have a handout, but I think that is a great idea to have one to go to adopters.  There's been alot of information being posted out there recently regarding air freshener sprays.  So if anyone does have a handout to share, that would be great!

Sheila

BDRA Adoption Coordinator

Quick search of internet I found good article by University of Rochester Medical Center titled :Indoor Air can cause health problems" 

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&;ContentID=2163

Perhaps this (or something similar) could be downloaded and printed, and included with adoption information with note that this applies to pets too.

Also searched airborne irritants and pets.   found a couple of articles from Journal of Veterinary Medicine, posted by NCBI. NIH.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29681128

 A but technical but may offer infor for cover letter.

If you do further searched, avoid posts promoting products or their own services.  Good luck

We have this blurb we include on smoking: 

"There actually have been several studies that show that secondhand smoke does affect our pets; since cats groom so much, licking up whatever gets on them, they have a much higher chance of developing mouth or lymph node cancers when regularly exposed to secondhand smoke. Here's a great article on pets and smoke, if you're interested: https://www.petfinder.com/blog/2011/02/pets_and_secondhand_smoke_are/ "