I have friends who believe that dog saliva is very healthy and helps your immune system, and they encourage dogs to lick their faces. Given what I''ve seen my dog eating and licking I do my very best to avoid her spittle.
FriendS? As in, multiple? I mean we all know one or two crazy people, but if people in your social circles believing that dog saliva is healthy is a common thing, or even the norm, I'm wondering what the cultural context around those circles are. I haven't like, properly studied it, but I'm quite confident stating that the overwhelming social norm in at least Western cultures is that letting a dog lick your face is very unsanitary and that there is quite a large amount of social stigma attached to it (this is my stunted attempt at saying, in an as non-judgmental way as possible, that it's a very low social status thing to do, to let a dog do that, let alone encourage it).
