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Richard1998 said:
I have a question, I am new to this and been in the back of my head for a few years now, but I am scared. How do you guys know if the female dogs don't have brucellosis canis, or any other transmissible desease
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Cause you care about her health, and if you suspect you check with your vet?

There are brucelosis tests available and are quite common if you have to breed her 🤷
 
Richard1998 said:
I have a question, I am new to this and been in the back of my head for a few years now, but I am scared. How do you guys know if the female dogs don't have brucellosis canis, or any other transmissible desease
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Goattobeloved said:
Cause you care about her health, and if you suspect you check with your vet?

There are brucelosis tests available and are quite common if you have to breed her 🤷
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I love that @Richard1998 is asking about such things as "brucellosis canis" as it shows a concern around health in general, and more specifically, the health of his dog and himself. (y)

@Goattobeloved 's response dovetails beautifully into this with sound advice of going to a good vet to get answers.

Now, I've said all this to say:
1st, you do NOT have to be having sex with you dog in order to contract this disease. While it is less common to be transmitted by non-sexual contact, it can happen, simply by saliva.

2nd, people like me who've been doing this for decades, simply don't find this as a problem... just as long as you take very good care of your dog's health as well as your own. Case in point: I have been sexually active for a little over 51 years with dogs, and have never had a single encounter with this disease. So, it is a fairly rare occurrence in dogs.

Hope this helps... 🐕
 
SaltyDog said:
I love that @Richard1998 is asking about such things as "brucellosis canis" as it shows a concern around health in general, and more specifically, the health of his dog and himself. (y)
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Must be something in the water, it is the second time I see someone worried about that specific (and rare) desease in a few days. 🤷

(btw: Sort of offtopic. Lets see if I get a mod to kove this to the appropiate health section)
 
Richard1998 said:
I have a question, I am new to this and been in the back of my head for a few years now, but I am scared. How do you guys know if the female dogs don't have brucellosis canis, or any other transmissible desease
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I can't speak for others, but for me I know because the parents were tested before the pairing and she hasn't been with another dog so there's not realy any way she cold have contracted it; here it is common practice to have a brucellosis test before mating. When it comes to other dogs, it's a matter of understanding how prevalent it is which will vary based on your location. Google "canine brucellosis [your area]" to start the task of figuring out the relatve risks. This is more a problem for fencehoppers who might be mating with strays or other random dogs; if it's a dog in your care, you can have them tested.
 
egoldstein said:
I can't speak for others, but for me I know because the parents were tested before the pairing and she hasn't been with another dog so there's not realy any way she cold have contracted it; here it is common practice to have a brucellosis test before mating. When it comes to other dogs, it's a matter of understanding how prevalent it is which will vary based on your location. Google "canine brucellosis [your area]" to start the task of figuring out the relatve risks. This is more a problem for fencehoppers who might be mating with strays or other random dogs; if it's a dog in your care, you can have them tested.
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Spot on! (y) 🐕
 
Black_Unicorn said:
It seems from this group of people with extremely close contact with animals the occurrence of zoonosis is extremely low.

Though one thing I did notice from kissing my dog was that the spot on flea treatment affected the taste of her kisses for 2 months. This told me it was too harsh on her body affecting her taste for food and permeating her body in ways it should not.

I don't think the pharmaceutical company did enough kiss testing on their trial dogs.
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There should be mandatory kiss testing prior to approval, I think very. 👍
 
hello! How's everybody? My question today is, how dangerous is it to have sex with a dog? If there is a risk of having an infection, it is latent. I understand that oral is very dangerous but I don't know about penetrating a dog's vagina, maybe I would like to know how informed they are, it would be super satisfying to have objective information on this! greetings!
 
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