Warning! Don't kiss your dog

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A man's legs and hands were amputated and more than a month later, he's still hospitalized awaiting more surgeries.

The cause of all of this: Bacteria from dog saliva that caused a rare blood infection, doctors told them.

Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a bacterial pathogen found in healthy dogs and cats. There are more than 700 different types of bacteria in a dog's mouth. While rare, people have contracted this bacteria, usually through dog bites, and died.

Licking can also prompt infection.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/

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@Linkat,

Need it be said, "Ain't that a bitch"?!

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@Ragman,

Well, I’ll be dog gone.

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@Linkat,

Time for mouth washes for dogs.

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@seac,

I thought that's what toilet bowls were for.

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@Linkat,

I wonder whatever became of the dog... Also, can't they get some sort of nasty diseases from all that licking those humans do to them?

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@najmelliw,

Just for clarity, I have never licked a dog. Ever!

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Just for clarity, I have never licked a dog. Ever!

Ok, so we have established you have never, ever licked your dog just for clarity. Sound reasoning, I suppose. I don't think I would ever be able to gain clarity from licking a dog.

So,what do you lick dogs for then, roger? :-P

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@najmelliw,

You're Dutch and have a sense of humor? Well, fan me with a blowtorch.

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@najmelliw,

He did say he was keeping the dog and he loves the dog.

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@Linkat,

One thing he won't be doing is petting it.

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@roger,

A shocker, isn't it? It's completely wasted on me too. Funny people can make a nice career out of it, but since Dutch people are quite humorless, they wouldn't be able to recognize a joke if it bit them in the ass(dog pun intended).

Sigh.

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@Linkat,

This is another ridiculous overreaction. From what I see, 56 humans in the US have been diagnosed with this disease over a period of 32 years. I think you are more likely to get a deadly disease from kissing humans.

I think it is funny that people who drive an automobile every day freak out over some exotic disease they read about on the internet.

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Don't let germ-freaks ruin some of the best parts of life.

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@Linkat,

This is goofy . . . I don't even know what your dog looks like. I would certainly never kiss your dog.

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@maxdancona,

George Carlin wrote:

The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections – salmonella, e-coli, hanta virus, bird flu – and Americans, they panic easily so now everybody’s running around, scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs.

It’s ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths. In prisons, before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol! It’s true! Yeah! Well, they don’t want you to get an infection!

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You know how many people die in this country from food poisoning every year? 9000... that’s all; it’s a minor risk! Take a ******* chance... bunch of goddamn pussies! Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It’s for killing germs! But it needs practice...

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A while ago, I was leaving a public restroom after using the urinal. A random guy stopped me and said "excuse me sir... where I am from we always wash our hands after using the bathroom".

I replied... "where I am from we don't pee on our hands".

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alternate title for this thread...

Don't smooch your pooch

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Funny. Neither Set nor I like dogs to lick/kiss us, but we happily share cutlery with Bella. We had a small ice cream last night while we were out for a walk. I knew the plan so had plastic spoons in my back pocket. We were both doing spoon for me/spoon for Bella. Her spoon got about as much ice cream as fits on my baby fingernail but, still, full sharesies.

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