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Is it really good to let a dog lick your wounds?

Is a dogs mouth as clean as they say? Can their licking a wound heal it up faster?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Dog's have normal oral flora (bacteria), including Pasteurella that you do not want in your wounds as it can cause infection. Clean it with alcohol and use an antibiotic ointment, not your dog's tongue.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    that is organic for a canines or any animal to favor to lick an section it really is injured. the only way you'll end your canines from licking the ointment off is to reapply it and then positioned some gauze over the ointment and wrap his leg up a strategies like a sock, and then positioned some first help tape around the gauze to carry it in position. do exactly not get it too tight or your canines would have it bumped off very rapidly! some days of remedy might want to sparkling the sores up. you need to only favor to the contact the vet day after today and examine in case you probably did the perfect element. That shouldn't value a element to be threat-free! sturdy good fortune such as your canines!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A dog's mouth may be cleaner than a human's mouth, but that doesn't mean they don't harbor bacteria.

    The best thing to do is to flush the wound with alcohol or peroxide.

    Neosporin is a god like substance -- Use it loyally.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your talking about an animal that uses it's tongue for toilet paper, not to mention spending how many hours of the day licking it's balls, not to mention running around your yard looking for rotten nasty dead things to eat. Now I ask you, why in the hell do you want this animal licking your wounds?

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  • 7 years ago

    there is no way its really good

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