This is a good reason not to let your dog jump on people

[IGBT]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dog...r-suffering-multiorgan-failure-214454177.html

mod edit: the above link talks about a disease dogs and cats can carry that can be fatal to humans. it also has auto play videos.

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[MrNoodly]

It's good to know that Capnocytophaga canimorsus is the reason all dog and cat owners are dead. Oh, we aren't? How could that be?

"...keep in mind that the odds of infection are very low."

But it looks like the odds of panic are higher.

 

[ByeBye]

Fear mongering is what media news outlets do best, reason I stopped paying any attention to them.

 

[B and C]

^^^ Amen! I stopped watching/listening to new a long time ago. Always put their slant on it and most times is not even close to actual events.

 

[WanderingRose]

Sounds like the incidence of infection is extremely low, but I think it is good for we dog lovers to be aware of.

My dog always wants to lick any small wound that I have.

This is a good reminder to quickly intervene if she tries.

 

[bullfrog]

One reason I like living in a national park is all dogs must be kept on a leash less than 6' long. We have had almost as many dogs in our jail as people because people fail to train and control their dogs! I am amused by the fact that in many states you can defend yourself if you feel threatened and legally shoot a person with the consent of the public but we can have dogs scare little kids so badly they hurt themselves running away and it is the parents fault for not controlling their kids as far as the public is concerned! A well cared for, trained and behaved canine is a pleasure to be around, but owners of untrained badly behaving dogs that don't control them are considered by law enforcement officers a threat and treated as such yet the public gets outraged. Dog owners need to keep their dogs out of other people's space unless given permission. Dogs can and should be trained to do this. Until they are, an owner should use a short leash around other people in order to keep them out of the other person's space and control their dog. Pet ownership is a huge responsibility especially around other people. Please remember this for your pet's sake.

 

[maki2]

Might as well have a little fun with this one. You could kill yourself by licking your own wound, so quite worrying so much about the dogs and quit using your spit to clean the face of your kids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_licking

 

[WanderingRose]

I will add to the above that people should ask permission from the dog owner before trying to interact with the dog.

I saw a woman squat in front of a good size dog and stick her face in his space (who's a good boy?) and come very close to getting a bite. The owner was horrified and jerked the dog back and the woman squatted into it's space again!!! Some people just don't get it.

Guy

My dog once snapped at a man who had known her for two seconds, after he leaned into my van and into her face.

It scared him, and it scared me. I now tell people that she doesn't like strangers in her face.

On another note, my dog was attacked by a pit bull a few months ago, a dog that did not have control of itself nor did the owner have control of the dog.

One of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and if the owner hadn’t been present I believe the pit would have killed my dog.

Dog and owner behavior could be its own thread.

 

[maki2]

.... So is it now a thread about pets and their behavior or misbehavior and lack of training? Or is it a thread about hygiene regarding not allowing dogs to cleanse your wounds?

 

[Ticklebellly]

My partner recently spent two full weeks in ICU after contracting blood poisoning as a response to an infection that started with a scratch on the leg from a dog. I don't know the name of the specific bacteria she contracted. The lesson we all learned from my partner's experience is that septic shock/ blood poisoning symptoms are easy to miss until too late. My partner went to bed complaining of Flu symptoms. When I checked on her at midnight, she very reluctantly drank just a little water despite my insistence and my concern about dehydration. At 05:00 next morning, she was confused and dehydrated and I called of an Ambulance. Ambos squeezed 3 litres of fluid into her before transport. They stopped en route to attach pads for the Defib. BP was 60/ 40 at admission. ICU asked me of instructions should she code. She is still recovering four months post hospital. I suggest it is worth while to think about the message in the initial post before the rest of the thread goes off into discussion of dog behaviour.

 

[crofter]

I died from that (capnocytophaga canimorsus) after surviving having cat bites sewn up, and then survived a series of rabies shots due to dog saliva in wounds from dog bites. Those were two mean animals. 

But it was the nice doggy that slobbered on me an did me in. Now I exist in another dimension. 

This one is 5 percent more common than the dog licking disease. -crofter

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mos...-in-humans-detected-in-florida-230118395.html

 

[crofter]

And then there are these, almost always fatal.   -crofter

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wha...d-how-can-you-protect-yourself-151553072.html

 

[Doubleone]

Kind of interesting in the 'how many ways to die' sorta way.  But dog spit doesn't rate very high on my worry list... and besides, puppy kisses are the best!  And the article plainly said the victim had a compromised immune system, so he was probably already on an egg timer for any minor pathogen to just happen along and take him.  Good thing it wasn't some yeast from a beer that got him, because I'd be a goner, for sure.