:yeahthat: I think it's important to keep your dog healthy, make sure they are wormed for parasites & treated for fleas & ticks & washed regularly, but beyond that I don't think germ-paranoia is useful.

We discourage face licking and encourage handwashing before handling food/eating but that's kinda it.

Skybie - just watch the leaf eating - its cute until they suck on a poisonous one (my 4 yo dd did that one time) OMG scariest phone call to the poisons info centre ever - glass of milk fixed it luckily, she never tried it again LOL.