(07-28-2012, 03:11 AM)laurasav Wrote: Funny! I'm a big germ freak but there are some unsanitary practices that I still have, like sharing food with my pets! I have gotten better at NOT doing it as my germ-freak phobia has grown worse though! When I was a kid, my dog could lick/eat just about anything of mine, including ice cream. My Bengal cat likes to nibble food from my plate when I eat on the couch. I used to let her do it, but now I find it too gross and I just hurry to give her bits of food before she takes them. The Tonkinese is more polite. He'll just sit patiently eyeing what he wants until I pinch off a piece and give it to him. I do share bananas with my Quaker. I'll hold him and we each take turns eating bites of banana. I don't know what kind of germs a bird's mouth might have?
As for sharing food with people (Thor, you crack me up!), I don't mind sharing with the hubby. He and I share spit in other ways anyway!
If family and friends are NOT sick, I'll share a bite of food with them too. I guess for being a germ freak (I drive people NUTS!), I am pretty careless in some ways with germs, aren't I?!
Majority if not all viruses and diseases have a dormant period after entering a host. Just because someone looks healthy, it doesn't mean he or she is not a host of some possibly very nasty viruses or germs. Sometimes these hosts are immune to it, while you are not. They can be truly in perfect health while passing the virus to you.
I know some times people especially family members can get offended by I want them to get another clean spoon and refuse to let them touch my food with what they have already used, but this is all just for being safer. I don't care about how people feel about it, I just want to face reality of the nasty world full of viruses and germs lol. There is totally no point to have entire family catch the same virus at the same time if I can avoid it.
The animals are not even as clean as humans. They don't wash their hands, or claws for that matter. They don't brush their teeth or clean their mouth. They don't take shower twice a day like me. Even when they are isolated from outside world with no chance of catching nasty viruses, they can still carry a lot of germs due to hygiene problems.
Even when they are isolated from outside world with no chance of catching nasty viruses, they can still carry a lot of germs due to hygiene problems.
