I thought it was a dog's ass that was so clean...

Tatterdemalian: Gyrfalcon: coco ebert: Who the f*ck thinks a dog's mouth is clean?

I guess subby does. The rest of us know that dogs eat shiat.

In the ancient time before the internets, this was a common piece of conventional wisdom. Dear Abby (the newspaper equivalent of a weblog) went around constantly telling people that dog mouths were cleaner then human mouths, and some people took this advice the wrong way. I remember at least one comic strip (The Phantom?) having a line about dogs' mouths being antiseptic, with a subplot about wolf saliva being needed to cure a rare jungle infection or something.

/which goes to show you how stupid people could be before the internet

I suppose dogs' mouths are cleaner than HUMANS' mouths, which is kind of like saying smallpox would be a better disease to have than Ebola. That doesn't mean they are clean in the sterile sense. Also, people in ancient times would note that dogs licked their own wounds and they would heal quickly and assume that meant dog saliva had some kind of healing power, rather than realizing it was just that keeping a wound cleaner than the dirt was better overall.

And of course, dog bites are less likely to get infected than cat bites. Everyone I know who's been bitten by a cat has a) blown it off as being something minor, and b) been in the ER twelve hours later getting scolded by the doctor while receiving massive doses of antibiotics for sepsis. Although in one case it was an overnight stay while they checked for gangrene. Never mess around with a cat bite.

Dogs have to use their mouths for hands. How clean would your hands be if you couldn't wash them?

Dinjiin: kmaywfec: Human bites are nasty too.

Don't even think about biting my sister.

She bites back...