
Originally Posted by
Ikusagami
I simply meant that dogs, overall, aren't as clean, as they lack cleaning agents in their tongues that they use on themselves obsessively AT ALL FUCKING TIMES. (seriously, wake up with a cat licking itself while staring at you. . . CREEEEPY!
But many diseases are spread more by fleas than the hosts themselves, who serve as carriers, whether infected or not.
--fun fact on that topic: commonly accepted (if unprovable) theory is that the Bubonic plague was able to spread in large part because of the overabundance of disease carrying (flea infested) rats. . . which had a direct causal relation to the Catholic church trying to purge the world of cats.