Is a dogs mouth sterill?

I don’t think I’d put my hands in a dog’s mouth before I performed surgery. Magnus; what exactly do you mean by “sterile”?

It’s cleaner than a human’s mouth I’ve heard. Not neccesarily sterile.

not sterile, but not terrible.

No.

Not unless he has lived his life inside a gnotobiotic “bubble” and is completely bacteria free (while there are research mice and rats that live like this, it would be exorbitantly expensive to maintain a research colony of even a small breed of dog).

Link to another thread:
Dog’s Mouth

Another Link:
Bacteria in Dog Saliva

My dog licks his weiner for 20 hours out of the day, there is no way that thing is clean. Maybe they don’t carry germs like the common cold or the flu but that doesn’t make it clean. I mean, he is a weiner licking machine.

Almost nothing outside of a lab is sterile. Especially a dog’s mouth.

No

No, a dog’s mouth isn’t sterile. However, at least some of the bacteria in the canine system won’t infect humans so in that sense and from a human perspective a dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s. Every germ in a human mouth can infect another human, so if you have to be bitten, be bitten by another species, especially one with a different typical body temperature.

For example, very few reptile bacteria infect people (except for Salmonella) so a nonvenomous snake bite is preferable to a dog bite and much cleaner than a human bite.

No.
The only tests I’ve seen proved that a dog has less bacteria in it’s mouth than a human, but since that test didn’t identify which bacteria are present, it’s hard to know which is safer.

@jessturtle23— thanks for sharing.