You can sleep with your pet dog, share food with it, and let it lick your face and you won’t spread germs as much as when you don’t wash your hands after petting your dog.

Research showed that bonding behaviors like those stated above had no association to an increase in shared E. coli. However, the research did show an association between antibiotic-resistant E. coli and owners who didn’t wash their hands after petting their dogs or before cooking meals.
This makes us think that dogs are not likely to spread multiple drug-resistant E. coli to their owners, but perhaps owners may spread them to their dogs, Stenske says in a statement.

We should use common sense and practice good general hygiene.

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