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help with overly affectionate dog, please

moose-huntmoose-hunt
in May 2011 Moms
My dog loves baby Elly a little too much.  Whenever penny gets around Elly she slobers all over face, legs and arms which is disgusting.   Penny even does sneak attacks on Elly's face when I'm not looking.  Does anyone have ideas on how to keep penny from licking Elly? (that doesn't involve a baby gate or crating)
Mrs. Hunt Eliana Grace born 5/24/11
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Re: help with overly affectionate dog, please

  • MeredithEleseMeredithElese member
    Correct and discipline her for it if you don't want her to do it. We are actually letting ours lick LO quite a bit. No licking in the mouth, but other than that they are doing it because they've claimed her as "their" baby. Sometimes they lick her for affection and sometimes they lick her to clean her where she spit up. Either way, their mouths are cleaner than ours so I'm not really worried about germs and I want to encourage their ownership of her. I can see how a really slobbery dog would get kind of gross, but you just have to set your boundaries for her and stick to them.


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  • Jram85Jram85

    imageMeredithElese:
    Correct and discipline her for it if you don't want her to do it. We are actually letting ours lick LO quite a bit. No licking in the mouth, but other than that they are doing it because they've claimed her as "their" baby. Sometimes they lick her for affection and sometimes they lick her to clean her where she spit up. Either way, their mouths are cleaner than ours so I'm not really worried about germs and I want to encourage their ownership of her. I can see how a really slobbery dog would get kind of gross, but you just have to set your boundaries for her and stick to them.

    I'd be careful with this, because an elderly friend of the family recently got a really bad infection from letting her dog lick her on the face.   

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  • calm_angel_2003calm_angel_2003 member

    levi my dog loves  to give dj kisses i let him give him 2 or 3 then i make him stop but levis not one of the really slobbery dogs. i used to have to discipline him but now all i have to do isay his name and he stops. goodluck

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  • LHC2011LHC2011 member
    We are trying to break our dog of the kiss-attacks too.  We used a squirt bottle with water when training her to not jump so we are using it again now.  I'm ok with a kiss here and there but not when she goes crazy.
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  • theaustins05theaustins05

    imageMeredithElese:
    Correct and discipline her for it if you don't want her to do it. We are actually letting ours lick LO quite a bit. No licking in the mouth, but other than that they are doing it because they've claimed her as "their" baby. Sometimes they lick her for affection and sometimes they lick her to clean her where she spit up. Either way, their mouths are cleaner than ours so I'm not really worried about germs and I want to encourage their ownership of her. I can see how a really slobbery dog would get kind of gross, but you just have to set your boundaries for her and stick to them.
    This is not true and it is a commonly accepted missunderstanding. People think that because dogs lick their wounds and it "heals better" their saliva has healing properties. Not true, it just keeps the wound clean so and it's less likely to become infected. Also, illnesses and bacteria that affect dogs are rarely the same illnesses and bacteria that affect humans. Ipso facto columbo oreo, we don't usually get sick from things that make our dogs sick. Their mouths are still gross. They lick their butts, so they have fecal matter in their mouth. They drink out of the toilet (more fecal matter). They play outside in the dirt and bugs and then clean themselves with their tongues...then lick your baby with their tongues. I'm not saying I don't let my dog kiss me, but they won't be kissing baby.

    Here's an article about it

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    imagetheaustins05:

    imageMeredithElese:
    Correct and discipline her for it if you don't want her to do it. We are actually letting ours lick LO quite a bit. No licking in the mouth, but other than that they are doing it because they've claimed her as "their" baby. Sometimes they lick her for affection and sometimes they lick her to clean her where she spit up. Either way, their mouths are cleaner than ours so I'm not really worried about germs and I want to encourage their ownership of her. I can see how a really slobbery dog would get kind of gross, but you just have to set your boundaries for her and stick to them.
    This is not true and it is a commonly accepted missunderstanding. People think that because dogs lick their wounds and it "heals better" their saliva has healing properties. Not true, it just keeps the wound clean so and it's less likely to become infected. Also, illnesses and bacteria that affect dogs are rarely the same illnesses and bacteria that affect humans. Ipso facto columbo oreo, we don't usually get sick from things that make our dogs sick. Their mouths are still gross. They lick their butts, so they have fecal matter in their mouth. They drink out of the toilet (more fecal matter). They play outside in the dirt and bugs and then clean themselves with their tongues...then lick your baby with their tongues. I'm not saying I don't let my dog kiss me, but they won't be kissing baby.

    Here's an article about it

    Agreed. I spoke to a microbiology professor about this recently. She explained that dogs simply have different natural flora and fauna in and on their bodies than we do.  They have evolved to have certain natural protections against these, like enzymes in their saliva etc, but the bacteria that they carry can still be harmful to humans.   

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