Does dogs saliva contained germs?
My husband insists that dog saliva has some substance in it that kills germs so their mouths and tongues are always clean. I think this is baloney, and I don’t want the dog licking my face after he has just used his tongue for personal hygiene. Can you please tell us who is right? This reminds me of a pretty good joke, but like most pretty good jokes it is fairly tasteless so we won’t be going into that today. Anyway, this business about the cleanliness of a dog’s mouth is sort of baloney, but not full-blown baloney. It is semi-baloney. A lot of people believe a dog’s saliva has antiseptic qualities to it. After all, the Bible tells us the dogs came and licked Lazarus’ sores as he was begging at the rich man’s gate. Not that it helped much, because Lazarus ended up dying anyway, although I don’t think it was the sores that killed him. I don’t remember. Anyway, it is true that dog saliva can kill germs. Big deal. So can yours. Human saliva contains lysozyme, an enzyme that kills certain
