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Is Kissing Your Pet Okay or Risky?
Vet Street via Yahoo! Shine ^ | 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.
1 posted on 01/12/2014 7:12:00 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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Bump


2 posted on 01/12/2014 7:12:52 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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3 posted on 01/12/2014 7:13:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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4 posted on 01/12/2014 7:14:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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WOOOF!

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5 posted on 01/12/2014 7:14:07 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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6 posted on 01/12/2014 7:14:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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"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.

7 posted on 01/12/2014 7:16:40 PM PST by digger48
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I saw Obama kiss his pet Wookie!


8 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)
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Of course I kiss my pups. They sleep with me too! So what do you think about that! :)snort))))))
9 posted on 01/12/2014 7:16:53 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Slings and Arrows

Thats is the most amazing bit of “footage” of cats I have ever seen.

Thank you/


10 posted on 01/12/2014 7:16:59 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Help fight The Neo Stalinists! Donate to your Free Republic)
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Gefn found it; I just stole it.


11 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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My old girl did that.


12 posted on 01/12/2014 7:19:16 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Slings and Arrows

I don’t have a choice...


13 posted on 01/12/2014 7:19:25 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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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.


14 posted on 01/12/2014 7:20:30 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: JaguarXKE

Ewwww!!


15 posted on 01/12/2014 7:21:17 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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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.


16 posted on 01/12/2014 7:21:46 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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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!


17 posted on 01/12/2014 7:24:04 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Slings and Arrows

I would imagine the pet is more at risk than the human in the possible transfer of bacteria.


18 posted on 01/12/2014 7:28:46 PM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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If your pet is a grizzly bear or a wolverine, I’d say risky.


19 posted on 01/12/2014 7:29:43 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Slings and Arrows
Yes, but no petting!


20 posted on 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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