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Is Kissing Your Pet Okay or Risky?
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| 1/12/14
| Dr. Marty Becker
Posted on 01/12/2014 7:12:00 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
There's a controversy in veterinary medicine that divides the profession, and it's over something that many pet owners never give a second thought: kissing your pets. As you might imagine, I have some thoughts on this topic. Because, yes, I kiss my pets, and yes, I know I probably shouldn't.
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But back to the risks. Shortly after the study about the transfer of oral bacteria from pets to people came out, I talked with Dr. Richard E. Besser, a pediatrician and the former acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the current ABC News chief health and medical editor.
"What do you think about this, Dr. Becker?" he asked me, to which I replied, "When's the last time you ever heard or read of a veterinarian dying of a zoonotic disease or having no teeth from dental disease?"
"Exactly," replied Dr. Besser. "I'm still kissing my dogs!"
And so am I.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; kittyping; petkisses; petkissing
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Pucker up, buttercup.
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01/12/2014 7:13:09 PM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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01/12/2014 7:14:05 PM PST
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dfwgator
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WOOOF!
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:14:07 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:14:09 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
"Exactly," replied Dr. Besser. "I'm still kissing my dogs!" as long as my dogs are still able to lick their own butts, they'll have to settle for the pat on the head.
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:16:40 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Slings and Arrows
I saw Obama kiss his pet Wookie!
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:16:49 PM PST
by
JaguarXKE
(1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
To: Slings and Arrows
Of course I kiss my pups. They sleep with me too! So what do you think about that! :)snort))))))
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:16:53 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Slings and Arrows
Thats is the most amazing bit of “footage” of cats I have ever seen.
Thank you/
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01/12/2014 7:16:59 PM PST
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MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey; Gefn
Gefn found it; I just stole it.
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:19:05 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:19:25 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Slings and Arrows
I have never understood why dogs gravitate toward their owner’s mouth. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Maybe to a dog the mouth is the window to what you ate last.
To: JaguarXKE
To: Slings and Arrows
“I have slept with cats against my cheeks since I was born and I don’t intend to stop now.”—Churchill, Hemingway, RoosterRedux, etc.
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:21:46 PM PST
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RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: Slings and Arrows
George Washington took a fox hound that he had bred with him to the Revolutionary War. The dog’s name was ‘Sweet Lips’. He must have kissed the hound, or he wouldn’t have known!
To: Slings and Arrows
I would imagine the pet is more at risk than the human in the possible transfer of bacteria.
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:28:46 PM PST
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wetgundog
(" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
To: Slings and Arrows
If your pet is a grizzly bear or a wolverine, I’d say risky.
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posted on
01/12/2014 7:29:43 PM PST
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Husker24
To: Slings and Arrows
Yes, but no petting!
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01/12/2014 7:30:53 PM PST
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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