6-week old puppy kills baby, page 9

Originally posted by EverythingYouDespise

Do your dogs brush their teeth after every meal? What about after every time they lick themselves or another dog's rump? When they chew on some garbage or drink out of the toilet? How about when they lick or munch on a rotting dead animal or (and I have seen this happen) their own vomit or excrement?

It's incredible the lengths people will go to in order to paint dogs as something more than lowly beasts.

As for your query about which horrible diseases were spread to us by animals, they include pretty much every one of them from tuberculosis right up to AIDS. Here's a semi-detailed article about the phenomenon: www.sdnhm.org...

In my opinion dogs are so much more than lowly beasts, as a matter of fact right now i can't think of one animal that i consider a "lowly beast". I guess i was blessed with a love for animals.

If you were to bitten by another human being, there's a very high chance that the bite will become infected, due to the high count of bacteria in a human mouth that is harmful to humans. However if you were to be bitten by a dog the chances of infection are minimal, because dog's mouths don't harbor bacteria that are dangerous to humans.

Actually i brush my dogs teeth for them, a lot of people do this for their dogs. My dogs don't eat garbage, i wouldn't allow my grandchildren to eat garbage so why would i allow my dogs to eat it. They aren't allowed to drink out of the toilet either, they have fresh water in a bowl at all times. They don't eat dead, rotting animals either.

It is not normal for dogs to eat their own excrement. When they do this it is an indication of a health problem, worms,etc. and is the owners responsibilty to take the dog to the vet so the problem can be fixed.

As far as eating their own vomit, that is a result of the weaning process. When it is time for puppies to be weaned they will jump up and lick at their mothers mouth after she eats, which in turns causes her to regurgitate her partially digested food, just like birds do, so that they can be weaned onto hard food. This behavior can be easily stopped, i have trained all my dogs that this is no longer food for them to eat, but rather something to be left alone.

I am not saying that these behaviors are not gross, just giving you the reasons behind them. By the way, it's just as gross to me to see a human mother chew up some food and take it out of her mouth and then feed it to her baby (which i have seen quite a few women do) to wean them.

First let me say that i don't believe that you completely comphrehended the article that you linked to. Ex. Malaria is spread by misquitoes, the black plague was spread by the fleas of rats, lyme disease is spread by ticks, these diseases are spread by insects, not by domesticated animals. Cats can have feline aids, but it can not be contracted by humans.

Your claim was that most epidemic diseases were spread to humans through domestic animals, and since we are talking about dogs here, i asked you to show some proof that would back up your claim regarding domesticated pets, dogs, cats,etc. Which you have not done, nor do i think you will be able to do.

If you have any further responses to me might i suggest that you do it through private messages, as we have already derailed this thread enough, and that was not my intention.

My apologies for going so far off topic.