I’m sure every time your pet catches you at the door when you arrive, he starts to move his tail restlessly, jumping on his paws and licking his hands, and you want to give him back that affection by caressing him and kissing him, but then a question crosses his mind: does kissing my dog hurt?
In this Article of Animal Expert we will unravel this question of whether it is good or bad to kiss your dog and explain why you should continue or stop doing so to see if this habit is harmful to your health or not.
- The way dogs should show us their love and affection is by licking their faces or hands.
- So that we can compare their caresses with our kisses or caresses.
- Dogs accompany us and evolve with us for centuries and centuries.
- Dogs are able to detect our moods and try to improve it with their demonstrations of affection.
- Support and understanding.
- Which are nothing less than licking with the tongue.
According to a study by anthropologist Kim Kelly of the University of Arizona, it has been scientifically proven that people living with dogs are happier than the rest of the population and that their emotional body language is a big part of it.
In addition to using their tongue to do well, dogs also ingest their herd leaders when they are offended or to be submissive (whether human companions or canines) or their puppies to clean and keep them warm.Dogs have thousands of nerve endings and chemical receptors on the tongue and snout, which makes them very sensitive to any external contact.
In addition to the thousands of nerve endings it contains, dogs’ mouths are also an excellent source of bacteria and microbes, so is it normal to kiss your dog or let it bite his mouth?The answer is no, as long as it is done, in moderation and care.
While it is true that our feline friends often smell and lick everything that is on the street or at home, and as a result, the microorganisms or bacteria they have can infect us when we kiss them and cause us an infection or disease.Recalling the issue that dog saliva is bad, the study mentioned above revealed that the microbes present in your stomach have a probiotic effect on our body, that is, thanks to the coevolution that has developed alongside us, the microorganisms that can penetrate our body improve our microbiota (set of microorganisms that normally live in our body) and promotes the growth of good bacteria , thus strengthening the defenses of our immune system.
Of course, it is not recommended to kiss them continuously and let the saliva of the dog contact us with continuous strokes of tongue, but now we know that if this happens, there is no problem and will even improve our microbial flora.We get more bacterial, viral and parasitarian diseases by not washing our hands more than by the fact that our dog ingests us showing us his affection.
But are all the microorganisms that dogs have in their mouths good?The truth is that not, and some of them can cause oral or parasititarian diseases, so it is advisable to take a number of measures as much as possible to continue enjoying the affection of your pet and avoid unnecessary risks:
So now you know that it’s not wrong to kiss your dog, that it doesn’t matter to let your dog ingest his mouth and that the saliva of dogs contains good and bad bacteria like ours and everyone’s.
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