Are dogs mouths REALLY cleaner?!?

A dogs saliva and mouth has less bacteria than ours does. That is where this saying started. However the bacterias in each are differant so really you can't compare them. check out this site they have some research on it. http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080422-llm-do...

This misconception regarding the cleanliness of dog's mouths probably originated from the thought that most diseases are species specific. This means that most communicable canine diseases, with the exception of rabies, do not generally affect humans. While it is true that dog bites are less likely to transmit a communicable disease

to a human, they are still quite capable of causing an infection.

Dog's mouths are filled with all kinds of bacteria, depending of course upon what the dog had in its mouth recently. When you consider that dogs use their mouths much like people use their hands, the bacteria counts in their mouths can be quite high. Suppose your dog has been eating fecal material, taste testing a dead animal, licking your shoe, or simply chewing on a stick that has been decomposing on the ground-your dog could have a nice selection of harmful bacteria cultivating within the mouth.

Not sure if it's true, but I've heard that human bites are more likely to get infected than dog bites.

I'm not sure if its true or not. It's kind of hard to believe because they pick up everything on the ground and they lick human hands which are filthy! But i'm really not sure about this one.

In a fashion confident, and in a fashion, no. people have micro organism on their tongue continually for some reason (I forgot), and this is in great quantities. in case you stick out your tongue and look at it, you notice those circles all on it? this is micro organism! canines, on the different hand, have not got the micro organism. So confident, it rather is purifier than ours because of the fact there tongue is roofed by using a layer of micro organism like ours is. yet, our micro organism isn't volatile micro organism (needless to say) and canines consume gross issues. canines consume trash, consume their poop, %. up nasty issues off the line, etc. while they do this, because of the fact they have not got micro organism on their tongue to interrupt it down, it keeps to be there for awhile, making their mouth particularly grimy! So in a fashion it rather is purifier, yet with what they get themselves into, it maximum incredibly isn't!

Yes it was proven on the television show Mythbusters.

i kiss my dogs on the mouth, and i know where its been. i dont care.

i kissed my ex on the mouth, and i shoulda asked where it had been.

no.. just a different balance of bacteria and enzymes in their mouths.

Dogs can still get staph infections.

thats what ive heard too so maybe.