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A dogs mouth is cleaner?


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If you're talking about total amount of bacteria in a dog's mouth versus a human's mouth, than I'd say neither is cleaner.

But I'd rather be bitten by a dog than a human. A lot of the stuff dogs carry around isn't zoonotic bacteria, so it's pretty harmless to us. It can only effect other dogs or other animals. If you're bitten by a person, you are susceptible to whatever they happen to be carrying.

My guess is that is where this myth came about. People noticed that if you got bitten by a person, the bite was much more likely to become infected then if a dog bit you. So they assumed that dogs had cleaner mouths.

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