To eat food my dog has got her teeth into

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I dropped a packet of sauce/paste on the floor. It’s a thick plastic packet.

My dog picked it up and ran off with it. By the time I chased her down and wrangled the packet out of her mouth, her teeth had made a small piercing in the packet (one or two piercings, but very tiny as she’s got very small teeth).

AIBU to use the sauce inside, or would you bin it and consider it too safe/unhygienic?

It's fine

It's really not

Well the science would emphatically disagree:

healthyhorns.utexas.edu/HT/HT_bites.html#:~:text=Human%20bites%20are%20often%20more,treated%20by%20your%20healthcare%20provider.

www.bite-pro.com/blog/post/human-bites-are-more-dangerous-dog-bites

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/treatment-for-human-bites

I wouldn't eat a sauce packet that a human had bit through either though

This - I was told by a vet that a human's mouth has much, much more bacteria than a dog's.

Yep this is my experience too.
Ice shared Lollipops with my dogs as a child (they lick, i lick, they lick,…)
My kids have done the same many times. My son just recently dug a Minipic out of our dogs mouth because he dropped it and the dog quickly stole it. It was half chewed up and DS ate it before i even realised what happened.
You will most likely be fine!

This. I was always told this by medical professionals whenever I was on the receiving end of a human bite.

Ddog stole a whole new packet of butter last week. With her pointy bloody snout she nudged the lid backwards off my house shaped butter dish and took it off to her place of choosing. Butter dish was in one piece.. I sliced round all sides with teeth marks on and salvaged the rest!

I’d eat it no problem. As long as your dog has clean teeth and ok breath. Dh kisses our dog on the mouth. Has done for years. Seems ok! My dog is not a mega bum licker and does not get grim stuff from outside (like dead animals).

So on the basis that I've used my teeth to get into sauce packets before, I'd probably use it.

FFS of course you can eat something that's already been in your mouth.

That's not even a close analogy.

What it's more like is being in McDonald's and asking some worm ridden stranger who's never brushed his teeth and who licks his own arsehole to open your ketchup sachet with those teeth, then putting it on your fries and tucking in.

I wouldn’t have been letting the dog in the kitchen in the first place 🤢

We have a stair gate at the kitchen door

Everyday I'm reminded why I do not eat at other people's houses. It really is the same type of people who do this who also claim showering is optional. The weird thing is how much pride people take in being filthy. Always the same type.

I'd eat it.

Struggle harder

I would never feed this to strangers. I also wouldnt feed it to strangers if my child had it in their mouth.. Or me! But honestly, my dogs mouth grosses me out way less than a strangers mouth 🤷🏻‍♀️😃

Agree. Grim!

Same here. I grew up with dogs in the house and have had a dog or two of my own for more than half my life. Two of those dogs would slurp tea or coffee out of my mug if they got even a quarter of a chance.

I've only ever had 2 stomach upsets in all my 67 years (campylobacter contracted from having a meal in a pub with a filthy kitchen, and noro the following year) and attribute my cast-iron guts to resistance acquired from sharing stuff with dogs.

YANBU to eat it yourself, you obviously don't think it's disgusting otherwise you wouldn't be asking. YABU to give it to anyone else to eat though! Personally I think it's absolutely gross and wouldn't do it.

Hmmmm, pointy snout, thieving tendencies - lurcher, by any chance?

So where does your dog eat - where is their water bowl ?

🤮🤣

Struggling to decide if this is sarcasm.

It's no different to letting the dog lick you.

In another room, well away from where we eat.

Doggy bowl slobber all over the kitchen floor and dogs licking all the crumbs and any splashed fat off the floor, plus dog hair in the kitchen - no thanks 🤮

My dog eats shit so I defo be passing on that sauce thanks very much