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100% agree!
I don't know how people let their dogs lick their faces or any other body part for that matter. Chickens might eat moldy food or intestines, but at least they don't eat the feces of other animals (or their own...I've seen that happen too). I knew a lady that used to let her dog eat off her fork, and then she would continue eating using the same fork. It is no wonder that she's single.![]()
I have 16 sled dogs. Yup yup,... I never let them "kiss me" . I've witnessed for years what they ingest and where they lick themselves. Luckily for them they have a germ killing enzyme in their saliva that allows them to eat a whole host of things that would most likely sicken a human. Sometimes fatally.
I can't remember the exact name of it but if my memory serves me correctly it's called lycozine or lykozone or lyconine or lyzine.. ?????????
As a matter of fact I heard an old man say,"If you have an infected wound let one of your dogs lick it. There's something in his mouth that'll help it heal you."
I've let them do that to my hand a cpl times as an experiment then graduated to a nasty cut from a rusty nail. Worked better than polysporin, bacitrin and alcohol wipes and all that rot. But I still don't let them kiss me.
Chickens now,.... Chickens do ingest chicken dung. The wee babies need to ingest it to introduce gut flora to their own systems because they aren't born with it. Like a moose licking her babies mouth area to introduce the enzymes necessary to digest the foods it eats. Same as a horse, a cow, a dog, a sheep.
I still don't let my dogs kiss me. Or my horses. Or my geese. Or my chickens. Or a moose....
And if any of them eat off my plate it's after I've finished with it, AND I don't eat off of it till Iv'e washed it with hot water and soap.
I don't intend to insult, hurt or anger anyone. I just wish to share what little I know in hopes it will help.
HAGD. it's a beaut.