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- From: bws20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Brian W Simmons)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
- Subject: Re: dog myths (was Tea-totalling dog!)
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:07:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.204708.104178@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <22971@drutx.ATT.COM> <1992Dec28.001045.6997@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article: <1992Dec28.001045.6997@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Betsy Weatherhead says she thinks a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's.OM>
- (see appended stuff below). FWIW, I'll have to agree and add some more
- hearsay evidence. My wife took microbiology last semester and her profess
- or also maintained that human mouths were significantly less clean than
- dogs'. Anybody taking micro now, or have access to swabs and culturing
- materials? How about doing a test?
-
- bws
-
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- > It is a myth that dogs have less germs than humans. (I learned that while
- > working for a vet).
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- I'm not so sure this is a myth. The vet I worked for believed that dogs'
- mouths were fairly sanitary. It's true that their licking of problem spots
- can cause more harm than good, but generally not because of increased
- infection. My other personal experience on this subject comes from working
- in an (human) emergency room. A human bite was considered massively more
- dangerous than a dog bite. Procedures for cleaning, antibiotics, and
- follow-up care differed drastically. The emergency room was in a teaching
- hospital, where doctors came to do a residency in emergency care, so I'm
- only assuming that their decision to treat human bites from dog bites was
- well founded.
-
- --
- O betsy@rainbow.uchicago.edu
- _ __ \
- \ / \ -- > O E. C. Weatherhead
- \ __ / \ __ / / 5734 S. Ellis Chicago, 60637
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- bws20@amail.amdahl.com the human heart holds hidden treasures,
- brian wesley simmons in secret kept, in silence sealed
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