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Dog germs may be good for you
U-T SanDiego.com ^ | March 17, 2015 | Bradley J. Fikes

Posted on 03/18/2015 10:16:28 PM PDT by Daffynition

When Fido drags his saliva-drenched tongue across your face, man's best friend may be doing you a microbial favor as well as showing affection.

People are being recruited for a study of whether living with a canine improves the human microbiome. The study is led by University of Arizona researchers along with other universities, including UC San Diego.

"We essentially want to find out, is a dog acting like yogurt in having a probiotic effect?" said Kim Kelly, one of the study leaders, in a press release. Kelly is also a principal research specialist at the University of Arizona in the Department of Psychiatry and program coordinator for the Human-Animal Interaction Research Initiative.

(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...


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To: piasa

hmm, don’t know. I have plants on the balcony, never saw them destroying it. I live in a city area. But we also get wild cockatoos; they are notorious for destroying (some) plants and wood.


41 posted on 03/19/2015 3:44:27 AM PDT by odds
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To: Daffynition

Some close friends have always had bullmastiffs. You haven’t seen drool.

Then there was the mastiff proper I met in the parking lot of our local burger joint. He knew he was about to get a soft serve ice cream. There was a river of drool at his feet!


42 posted on 03/19/2015 3:54:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: odds

A friend of mine showed me some photos one of his associates in Australia sent him...he had built a new deck on his house and it looked great. Then he sent a pictures of what it looked like during and after a flock of cockatoos had discovered it. Apparently they considered it to be bird candy. It looked like it had been hit by a bomb.


43 posted on 03/19/2015 3:58:40 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

“Apparently they considered it to be bird candy. It looked like it had been hit by a bomb.”

Yes, Cockatoos can be like that, especially when you get more than a few. Lots of them in the Blue Mountains, about 90 mins drive from Sydney.


44 posted on 03/19/2015 4:12:47 AM PDT by odds
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To: Daffynition

Luke 16:19 and following contains interesting thoughts on this subject!


45 posted on 03/19/2015 4:24:18 AM PDT by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Daffynition
Some people will do anything for a kiss...


46 posted on 03/19/2015 4:38:03 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Daffynition
My dogless 4 1/2 yr old son at his cousins house, meeting their new dog for the first time observed “He licks his hiney and THEN he licks MY HAND...?”
47 posted on 03/19/2015 4:38:18 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Daffynition

During the Crimean War in 1854 wounded British soldiers often allowed dogs to literally lick their wounds, as the licking actually cleansed and disinfected the wound sites.


48 posted on 03/19/2015 5:01:11 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Daffynition

If you have had your spleen removed, be very careful around dogs. They harbor an encapsulated bacteria for which you have no defense if you are spleenless.


49 posted on 03/19/2015 6:18:19 AM PDT by quietly desperate
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To: Daffynition

Dagny wakes me up every morning like that...and I do nothing to discourage it.


50 posted on 03/19/2015 7:16:45 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: FreedomPoster

*There was a river of drool at his feet!*

This is all *my* fault.....pooch always gets the *last* bite on my plate.....he *knows* it is coming.......drip. Drip. Drip. I admit....it’s my bad habit of allowing the treat.


51 posted on 03/19/2015 7:53:39 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: odds

I love birds and enjoy *birding* as a hobby.


52 posted on 03/19/2015 7:55:16 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: kanawa

Goodness!!!! LOL


53 posted on 03/19/2015 7:56:13 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: quietly desperate

I didn’t know that. Interesting.


54 posted on 03/19/2015 7:57:00 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Daffynition

More information from 2011.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201106/can-dogs-help-humans-heal


55 posted on 03/19/2015 9:41:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: gorush

56 posted on 03/19/2015 9:59:58 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: 21twelve
My dogs love to kiss. It's sweet, but I turn my head. :)


57 posted on 03/19/2015 10:10:24 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Thank you so much.

The AMA may not *like* this.

Obamacare won't stand for it.

I've been to the site of the *healing* temple of Asclepius in Pergemon; quite a beautiful place.

**Starting around 350 BC, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular. Pilgrims flocked to asclepieia to be healed. They slept overnight ("incubation") and reported their dreams to a priest the following day. He prescribed a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium. Since snakes were sacred to Asclepius, they were often used in healing rituals. Non-venomous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.

I remember the pillar of the caduceus there.

Asclepeia provided carefully controlled spaces conducive to healing and fulfilled several of the requirements of institutions created for healing.[3] In the Asclepieion of Epidaurus, three large marble boards dated to 350 BC preserve the names, case histories, complaints, and cures of about 70 patients who came to the temple with a problem and shed it there. Some of the surgical cures listed, such as the opening of an abdominal abscess or the removal of traumatic foreign material, are realistic enough to have taken place, but with the patient in a dream-like state of induced sleep known as "enkoimesis" (Greek: ἐγκοίμησις) not unlike anesthesia, induced with the help of soporific substances such as opium.**

58 posted on 03/19/2015 10:11:30 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Daffynition

I’m immune for life.

:)


59 posted on 03/19/2015 11:46:39 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: A Navy Vet; Slyfox

When was the last time you heard of a canine e coli outbreak?

I’m just sayin’...

;}


60 posted on 03/19/2015 11:48:53 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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