Seems like sometimes we're concerned about the wrong thing. Do you think all the food delivered on your seemingly clean plate is clean? Has anything ever been added to you drink? Ever found a hair in you drink, food, silverware? Has every employee at every eating establishment always been in a good mood and never added something to see if it's noticeable?

If you think food service is perfect, you probably trust your automotive service work to anyone with a wrench.

This is just one example:

Study: Doctors Don't Wash Hands Enough
By Rogger Miller | Published 06/10/2007
Upwards of one-half of doctors don't wash their hands between visits with hospital patients, a new study shows. It's a big infection control concern in hospitals because dirty hands transmit germs to other patients.

Why don't doctors wash their hands -- a seemingly simple procedure? Hospitals routinely promote good hygiene to doctors and other health-care workers, alerting them of the risks of dirty hands after examining different patients or after examining various infected and uninfected sites on a single patient. Yet doctors are frequently observed breaking the rules.

In this study, researchers sought to better understand doctors' attitudes. They secretly tracked 163 doctors to monitor their hand washing during the day. Each doctor also completed a survey about their attitudes on hand hygiene.

They observed just 57% of doctors washing their hands between patients, writes lead researcher Didier Pittet, MD, MS, an infection control expert with the University of Geneva Hospitals. Pittet's report appears in the latest Annals of Internal Medicine.

Internists and medical students were the most diligent about washing their hands, Pittet reports. Surgeons and anesthesiologists washed their hands least often.

On days when doctors had a busy workload, they were less likely to wash, the report shows. If they thought they were being watched, they were more likely to wash.

 

Aww come on Senior .... you know some of the best places to eat in P.I. were the ones that looked like that !! You never worried if the dogs were LICKING the plates ...they were probably being served ON the plates !!

Cheers,
PISTOL

 

I let mine after I'm done sometimes, once a month no big deal. They mind good, house broken, great watchdogs, viscious if I let them be.

 

Around my house we wash our plates with soap and water before we eat off them so i really don't care what was on them prior to that.

People get way too upight and think it's necesary to live in some soret of hygenic bubble and the world is covered in germs that are out to get them.


Odd, I've lived and woked in the dirt all my life frming and has not bothered me a bit.

How do you suppose the human race survived for thousands of generations prior to soap even?

 

That little cattle dog in my avatar eats dry kibble, once a day, period.
Never has she had any people food, as mentioned earlier, it's not good for them, generally too high in fat.
She's a lean, trained, working dog.
She wouldn't dare look at me or anyone else while they were eating.
I'm not worried about germs, I'm just not into fat, spoiled, dogs.

 

I live on a farm and my farm dogs eat things that would make a billy goat puke ! Dead deer, groundhogs, Snakes,even horse crap ! I don't think a table scrap would hurt them. Although I don't ever give them ANY pork products.

 

I agree we are to up
tight.

But in the days before Soap and hot water a lot more people died from germs and bugs and the life span was way shorter..

 

My Heelers and I sure are though!!!!

 

My dog lived till she was 15 years old. She ate better then most people ever will. She had to wait untill we were done our meal then she would get the scraps and once in a while her own Prime Rib or T-Bone steak. People thought we were crazy to feed her like that then let her lick the paltes clean.

The way I see it my hands and mouth are dirtier then her mouth and paws so as long as the dishes were washed properly afterwards no harm done.
Plus I think most of us are jeleous that a Dog can lick it's own behind and we can't.

 

I think the reason we're seeing so many kids that develop allergies to virtually anything you can imagine is because they are not being exposed to the stuff they will encounter in everyday life. As suggested above, we're trying to keep them in a bubble.

Just to stay on topic I'll give everyone fair warning; if you can't stand the thought of a dog licking the same plate you're eating off of, don't come to my house!

chaikwa.

 

ha ha...there is a place right out side the gate in Puerto Rico, and he told us it was "something you don't need to worry about...cooked long time, very good..."

one the guys spoke spanish, he said it was dog.
he had the raw meat in a tub, and it did not look like anything I seen growing up, and i ran the sausage grinder, so you know what i saw


i think we need to start a thread on Dog Food, and name it:
"the Great DTR Fight thread: what to feed your dog"


no comment, i been retired about 5 years now...

i agree. we have one kid who has that little germ hand rinse on her key chain,
she keeps a gallon refill at the house, and has to refill her key chain bottle every few days.

back on topic, per chaikwa's assertion:
laying in bed last night, after reading the latest comments.
we had company over, and she has a toddler.
i hear our Akita walking all over the house, pacing
i guess the company had shut the lid to the "magic well" in the guest bathroom.

so i hear the Akita come slinking in our bedroom, and into our bathroom.
then i hear the sound of happy slurping.

she don't drink water out of her bowl, she really likes the cool fresh water from the magic well.

of course, she licked my hand real good this morning when i fed her.

a good dog is really enjoyable.

 

I agree that a lot of people are too germaphobic. My main thing is the dog eats after me. Not at the same time. I just don't want them begging at the table. And I'd put my Heeler up against most when it comes to being lean & tough.

 

I guess I am one of "those" people....My dogs eat dog food too....and whatever I cook for dinner. The will eat anything I give them....Including veggies and pasta! My big golden lives for Chicken n Dumplings...

 

when you makin up the next batch? i might, uh, bring my dog by, yeah, that's it!!

dog food thread

 

Couldn't have said it better myself.