• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I love dogs. I had one as a teen and never had one since. I called him Coffee because it was an easy unusual name that was unique. Not many people drank coffee in our family back then.

    But I never in my life could ever understand people who ‘kissed’ their pet. I have a friend with a tiny dog and she loves picking it up, kissing it and letting the dog lick her lips.

    I always just keep imagining that this is the same pet that licks its butt and the butts of other dogs when they get together, or doesn’t mind digging into the garbage, licking rotting food or taste testing random feces it found.

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        8 months ago

        We do the same as well … but that’s the only taint I would go near … I don’t like the idea of getting involved with any other human or any other species or any combination or quantity in between.

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          8 months ago

          Well they also shit and don’t wipe and that’s never given a second thought. It’s mostly clean after sure but let’s not kid ourselves, they’re getting shit particles on stuff. If you let your dog on any furniture, which like cmon why wouldn’t you, then that’s another contradiction. They are definitely getting nasty things on them and you end up laying on the couch one night without a thought, again.

          You also have mites that live in your eyelashes. The world is a pretty gross place and being grossed out by some dog saliva, when they just wanna love you, is a weird double standard that I’d have to reconcile if I agreed.