Should I keep my (wife\'s) dog away from my new baby?
 

My wife and I have a 3-month-old son who is starting to turn over, play on the floor, etc. He will soon be crawling and teething (which means he will try to put everything he touches into this mouth).

We have a 6-year-old little dog who weighs about 10 pounds and is an inside dog for the most part. The dog sleeps in our bed and pretty much goes wherever she wants. This was my wife's dog originally and she is very fond of it... I think the dog is fine but I'm not terribly attached to her.

The dog, like all dogs, is pretty filthy in my estimation. If left alone in the apartment, she will pee or crap on the floor. She throws up on the carpet from time to time. After being walked, she likes to come back inside and either lick her butthole for a while or drag her ass along the carpet.

I am not real excited about this squirrel dog licking my son's face, spreading her fecal matter all over our floors, etc. My wife doesn't seem to think it's much of a problem and "has read" that being around the dog will actually help my son "build up a resistance" to germs.

I don't know if I should just let this go and not worry about it, throw a huge fit and demand the dog be quarantined away from him, or somewhere in the middle.
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. My kids are growing up around two huge dogs, and we had zero problems.

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Let him interact with the dog in small doses when he gets older, keep the dog out of his room and off his play mat (you have one of those for the floor right?) and he's good. Odds are he's been exposed to the filth just from breathing, and your dog being an inside dog is not nearly as filthy as you think. I'd worry more about the dog biting him than anything else.

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Let the kid play with the dog if it is mild mannered. It is better for the kids to be around dirt and filth for their immune systems in the long run.

There was actually a study a while back that said it was good for kids to be around the extra germs from pets when they are younger. Don't sterilize their environment - this is where you get kids allergic to everything.

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I woudln't worry about the dog getting your kid sick, I'd worry about the dog harming him. My best friend's baby sister got bit by their family dog. It was a very nice dog, but would get very aggressive when he had food.
This is rare, and shouldn't be a problem, but still- if I had a baby I would be careful with him being around my two labs- who are very well behaved and not aggressive.

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It's all good. I think there are actually some studies that say that kids who are around animals as infants have fewer allergies. But, there are probably some studies where the opposite is true, so I dunno. Anyway, my personal theory is that being super anal about stuff like this does more harm than a dirty dog can. One man's opinion.

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Me too. Infants and toddlers obv have no clue how to interact with animals. My littlest (almost 3) loves to try and ride my dalmation. Luckily he has a great temperment and puts up with the kid without more than an occasional growl.

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Good to hear all this.

BTW there's no real chance of the dog biting him, she never bites and her teeth are TINY (probably less than a 1/4 inch long) and most of them have fallen out anyway.

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I missed the part saying the dog was 10 pounds. If it were any older you might have to worry abut the dog getting old and snappy towards a toddler who might grab/pull/poke/push the dog. Sounds like the dog wouldn't be likely to do any permanant damage, but it would still be unfortunate.

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My littlest (almost 3) loves to try and ride my dalmation

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This sounds adorable.

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How about training the dog? There's no reason it needs to do any of that behavior you described. That's ridiculous.

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Every time a dog bites a kid moronic owners say things like "It's so out of character" , "He's NEVER done that before" - well of course he hasn't , if he had some parent would have wrung your dogs neck.

Don't trust dogs around kids.

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Please don't play with fire Devil, I've been enjoying your posts lately. My thoughts would be to keep them apart for a while, occasionally mixing them. The hygiene of your dog worries me a little as it does you. Is there a chance the dog could go if the hygiene could become a problem?


PS - i've always wondered, is your wife your avatar?

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How about training the dog? There's no reason it needs to do any of that behavior you described. That's ridiculous.

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Eh, my wife does not/will not exert very much discipline over the dog and had her for 5 years before we met. To train the dog I'd have to take off a week from work AND get full support from my wife, which ain't gonna happen.

We're moving into a house soon and the dog will have a yard, which should help with some of the indoor peeing and crapping.

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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i think your statement is inaccurate

also don't circumvent the profanity filter

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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Please don't play with fire Devil, I've been enjoying your posts lately. My thoughts would be to keep them apart for a while, occasionally mixing them. The hygiene of your dog worries me a little as it does you. Is there a chance the dog could go if the hygiene could become a problem?


PS - i've always wondered, is your wife your avatar?

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My avatar is that ex-Louisville cheerleader who had some super-naughty pics posted on the internets. I think most of them have been removed but happy googling!

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Well then do you really have the option of keeping it away from your kid?

To answer your original question, I would not feel comfortable having my kid crawl around the floor where my dog pisses/sh*ts/pukes/drags ass.

(I have a dog and a kid.)

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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Please don't play with fire Devil, I've been enjoying your posts lately. My thoughts would be to keep them apart for a while, occasionally mixing them. The hygiene of your dog worries me a little as it does you. Is there a chance the dog could go if the hygiene could become a problem?


PS - i've always wondered, is your wife your avatar?

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My avatar is that ex-Louisville cheerleader who had some super-naughty pics posted on the internets. I think most of them have been removed but happy googling!

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Those pictures were great. I know a place I might be able to get them, if so I'll post the link.

EDIT: FOUND, PM FOR LINK!

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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i think your statement is inaccurate

also don't circumvent the profanity filter

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...or you'll flex your big giant e-penis and ban me?

What a [censored]. Your posts are never anything but worthless, unfunny insults.

How the hell did you become mod? I swear, every time I see one of your posts, I think "Wow, another stupid joke that's not funny and is designed to make someone feel bad."

Go read some of By-tor's posts and learn how to be funny, witty or clever. Right now you're just an assh0le with a black label.

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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i think your statement is inaccurate

also don't circumvent the profanity filter

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...or you'll flex your big giant e-penis and ban me?

What a [censored]. Your posts are never anything but worthless, unfunny insults.

How the hell did you become mod? I swear, every time I see one of your posts, I think "Wow, another stupid joke that's not funny and is designed to make someone feel bad."

Go read some of By-tor's posts and learn how to be funny, witty or clever. Right now you're just an assh0le with a black label.

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huh? i think you're overreacting on this one. i just called you a polltard. pretty standard actually. it's not designed to be funny i just wanted to alert you to the fact that your poll blows. no thanks necessary.

i will now ban you for circumventing the profanity filter. i'm doing it because it makes me feel like a big man, not because you broke a rule that the reds specifically want enforced, even after being given a warning. trust me, it's because i want to be a big man on the internet.

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i'm doing it because it makes me feel like a big man, not because you broke a rule that the reds specifically want enforced, even after being given a warning.

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I must have missed the warning?

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On average, a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's, especially a human kid's mouth. I would be more worried about the kid's hygiene negatively impacting the dog, if anything.

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F*ck off c*cksucker, nobody likes you.

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i think your statement is inaccurate

also don't circumvent the profanity filter

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...or you'll flex your big giant e-penis and ban me?

What a [censored]. Your posts are never anything but worthless, unfunny insults.

How the hell did you become mod? I swear, every time I see one of your posts, I think "Wow, another stupid joke that's not funny and is designed to make someone feel bad."

Go read some of By-tor's posts and learn how to be funny, witty or clever. Right now you're just an assh0le with a black label.

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huh? i think you're overreacting on this one. i just called you a polltard. pretty standard actually. it's not designed to be funny i just wanted to alert you to the fact that your poll blows. no thanks necessary.

i will now ban you for circumventing the profanity filter. i'm doing it because it makes me feel like a big man, not because you broke a rule that the reds specifically want enforced, even after being given a warning. trust me, it's because i want to be a big man on the internet.

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Jesus, OOT is really going to crap.

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Jesus, OOT is really going to crap.

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Quick, let's hide in ATF.

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10 pounds? that's not a dog, it's a rat.

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that's not a rat, it's a mod .

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The dog is fine, worry about the dingo.

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i'm doing it because it makes me feel like a big man, not because you broke a rule that the reds specifically want enforced, even after being given a warning.

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I must have missed the warning?

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i thought i responded pretty civilly when i said:

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i dunno how i could end up on the wrong side of this one

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daryn,

No, I was confused because I didn't see him circumvent it a second time.

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We have a 6-year-old little dog who weighs about 10 pounds and is an inside dog for the most part.

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That's not even a [censored] dog! Are you sure it's not a cat?

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i dunno how i could end up on the wrong side of this one

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Daryn,

I'm sorry, but I think that this is a bit lame. Drew is a good poster. I really think that there's no need for this. I thought the rules were there to weed out the idiots, not to cut out the good posters. To the bad posters that seems unfair, and that's the point, it is because they were put in place to specifically get rid of the bad posters.

Now we're just laying them across the board?

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On average, a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's, especially a human kid's mouth.

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This sounds like it can't possibly be true.

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Yeah, it's a common urban legend. It's definitely incorrect.

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Yeah, it's a common urban legend. It's definitely incorrect.

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I can't say for certain on a kid's mouth, but I've seen it at least one experiment on it and the dog's mouth was significantly cleaner than the humans

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Yeah, it's a common urban legend. It's definitely incorrect.

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I can't say for certain on a kid's mouth, but I've seen it at least one experiment on it and the dog's mouth was significantly cleaner than the humans

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Definitely not urban legend - have seen similar experiments. Human mouth produced much more nastiness in a petri dish than a swab from a canine.

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I am sure you have already taken dog to vet and explained situation ....
Up to date on all shots, wormed (especially with dragging ass), etc.

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Every time a dog bites a kid moronic owners say things like "It's so out of character" , "He's NEVER done that before" - well of course he hasn't , if he had some parent would have wrung your dogs neck.

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when I was a kid we had a dog and it went nuts and started attacking me like every day. It hadn't been like that before.

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The dog, like all dogs, is pretty filthy in my estimation. If left alone in the apartment, she will pee or crap on the floor. She throws up on the carpet from time to time. After being walked, she likes to come back inside and either lick her butthole for a while or drag her ass along the carpet.

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Two things: Train your dog not to crap and pee in the house. It's simple and something that should have been done for all of your benefit ages ago. Obviously there are going to be some accidents, but these can be minimized. Also: Don't let you dog have free reign of the house when no one is home.

Second, take your dog to the vet to have its anal glands squeezed. That's usually the reason for butt dragging. If you don't want to pay for the squeeze, learn to do it yourself. If your dog's anal sacs AREN'T full, there is some other reason for the butt dragging and hopefully you can identify it.