Animals licking you...
I don't like cats licking my skin but I don't mind if they like my hair a little bit. When I first got my dog I thought I would not like it, but I do. I don't like it though when he accidently licks my tongue ( So! Gross!! !) I really like it when he licks my feet. He does it because he really likes me. Sometimes he does get to be too much and I make him stop.
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I don't mind animals licking me but I don't like it on my face. I don't like how it feels on my face. I loved when my cats would lick my hands. I like rough feeling. Cows have rough tongues too and I don't mind when the calves lick my hands. I let the horses lick my hands too. Unlike cows, their tongues are smooth. I always wash my hands thoroughly afterwards though. I don't usually wash them immediately afterwards especially if I am grooming the horses since my hands will get dirty again anyway. I do wash my hands very thoroughly before I leave the barn though.
There are zoonotic diseases (those which can cross species lines), but they are of far less concern than anything a regular ole human animal can give someone.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
I don't mind animals licking me but I don't like it on my face. I don't like how it feels on my face. I loved when my cats would lick my hands. I like rough feeling. Cows have rough tongues too and I don't mind when the calves lick my hands. I let the horses lick my hands too. Unlike cows, their tongues are smooth. I always wash my hands thoroughly afterwards though. I don't usually wash them immediately afterwards especially if I am grooming the horses since my hands will get dirty again anyway. I do wash my hands very thoroughly before I leave the barn though.
There are zoonotic diseases (those which can cross species lines), but they are of far less concern than anything a regular ole human animal can give someone.
Speaking of zoonotic diseases, I need to get a Tetanus shot today. It's been nine years since my last one. I don't wait until the tenth year is over. I like to over lap it.
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Wreck It Ralph
I don't mind animals licking me but I don't like it on my face. I don't like how it feels on my face. I loved when my cats would lick my hands. I like rough feeling. Cows have rough tongues too and I don't mind when the calves lick my hands. I let the horses lick my hands too. Unlike cows, their tongues are smooth. I always wash my hands thoroughly afterwards though. I don't usually wash them immediately afterwards especially if I am grooming the horses since my hands will get dirty again anyway. I do wash my hands very thoroughly before I leave the barn though.
There are zoonotic diseases (those which can cross species lines), but they are of far less concern than anything a regular ole human animal can give someone.
Speaking of zoonotic diseases, I need to get a Tetanus shot today. It's been nine years since my last one. I don't wait until the tenth year is over. I like to over lap it.
Skibum, you're lucky that you can get so close to the ten year window for the tetanus shot. If you were as prone to hurt yourself as I am, then there'd be ample opportunities to get one before that time.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
They of course are completely onto the situation and use licking to get me to give them attention. As in 'Pet me or I will lick you.' They also know and use the worst possible places to lick, like in the ear, in the eye, or worst of all, up the nose.
You know I believe that too, but I don't find a lot of support for that view in reading about pets or in conversations with more experienced animal handlers. Its more like I get that look like I am reading too much into the animals reactions and giving them more human traits (that they don't have). Often I hear the statement something like "Look, its a dog" or "Its a frog" and in the sense that they don't have sophisticated feelings (if at all). And professionals too in studies, etc, usually try to find more basic biological reasons to explain behaviors, and in a sense explain away the emotional element.
But I think, I really do, that they are missing something. Just because an animal cannot communicate its feelings does not mean they don't have them. Think for a comparative example of a non-verbal person. You do have some amount of things you can observe and watch to see how things make them react. For example you can tell from body language and barking, when a dog is happy, sad, relaxed, nervous, etc. I can't believe that happiness in a dog is only a set of muscular actions, or even just a vague sense of well being. There is more to it. I know it.
I love getting on the floor and having my daughter's dog lay next to me...but I don't like it when she licks me - mainly b/c she likes to lick me on my face.
Ever since I was a boy, I always wanted a dog that would sleep at the foot of my bed - but my wife doesn't like having the dog in the house (we live in the deep south, where most people keep their pets outdoors - and if they live outside 99% of the year, they tend to smell like outside pets for that 1% of the year when they do come inside for cold snaps).
I would love to have a Great Dane...and have it live inside. I think it would be awesome to have it sit next to me on the couch while I watch TV.
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I love animals, but I hate them licking me. It just feels too weird in a sensory-related way, and I hate germs. I have to wash whatever part of my body has come in contact with another object or living being.
Some dog licks I can tolerate, but most I cannot, as they tend to slobber and are disgusting, and I have to wash off afterward.
I know just what you mean.
My best friend who was my cat (she died almost 3 years ago) would carefully lick all my head to wash my hair in the morning (after she awoke from sleeping on the pillow next to me). I liked the feel of it, and it made me me feel loved. Her tongue was rough, but it was nice as we bonded. I guess what she was doing was washing me like I was a kitten.
She was my best friend before I learnt to make friends with other humans.
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We, the people on the Autistic Spectrum have a choice.
We can either try to "fit in" with the rest of society, or we can be so egocentric that we can't be bothered.
I choose the actor. I observe NT's. I listen to their socializing. I practice it, so in social situations I can just emulate/mimic what is expected.
It isn't natural for me, but it enables me to "fit in".
It is VERY tiring and draining, but at least we can appear like them even though it is an act. Like being on the stage.
They can't see it is emulation, and so we are accepted.
Thanks for all the replies ladies and gents! I'm surprised at the mixture, more seem to not mind than it bothers. But everyone's different of course. It's just a massive sensory thing for me from any animal, but I would still take my cat licking me over a dog. Still... I have a hard time but I love animals!
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Speaking of zoonotic diseases, I need to get a Tetanus shot today. It's been nine years since my last one. I don't wait until the tenth year is over. I like to over lap it.
Skibum, you're lucky that you can get so close to the ten year window for the tetanus shot. If you were as prone to hurt yourself as I am, then there'd be ample opportunities to get one before that time.
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"I'm bad and that's good. I'll never be good and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."
Wreck It Ralph
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