My step son's mother has a little girl that gets what certainly looks like
cold sores. She is in the first or second grade I guess. Well, her mom said
she gets "sores" around her mouth because she lets her puppy lick her face
and mouth. That in itself is pretty bad having dog germs all over your face,
but I have never seen anyone get sores from a dog lick. I'm thinking maybe
the friction could cause them, or is there something you can get from dogs
that will do that? My step son said "oh, a dog's mouth is the cleanest there
is! They don't have really much germs!" I said to him that anything I have
ever seen eating cat poop is not clean in my book! And then dogs have that
habit of licking themselves too. He looked a little greenish after thinking
about it.
Anyway, I mentioned that cold sores were herpes and she went real still, so
I thought , uhoh she really didn't know that. So I explained how you get
them, possibly very innocently, not just sexually. And we talked a little
about it. I know I was uninformed, but I never thought the dog did it. Lol!
Wanda