The story of a certain roof-top dog's bowel movements has gained some traction on my side of the pond lately. Which led me to wondering what risks would be presented to children by being kept for hours in a confined space with a hound suffering from diarrhoea? Is there any risk of infection, or psychological disturbsnce? Or would it amount to nothing more than acute discomfort for the kids, soon forgotten after a good scrubbing? For the record, when asked in a totally apolitical and hypothetical manner my wife and kids all voted to leave the dog outside.
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Busy System Admin: I suggest this may not be the ideal kind of question to ask in this section of the site...
Charles Mark: Noted BSA, with some disappointment (not pique). I confess to posing the question with a certain amount of tongue in cheek and with a particular event in mind but I do genuinely wonder at the practicalities of carring an afflicted dog in a car with children, thereby running the risk that the children would be infected with some unpleasant disease, or traumatised. The answers I hoped to receive might have been used in any further discussion of the topic outside Ricochet, but I guess members have voted with their fingers.Next time!
Rob Long: Well, to be serious -- and to try to respond to the topic with the dispassionate tone we're going for here on the intel tab -- I'd say this: the actual risk of disease from this kind of thing is not trivial -- both from a canine and from a person. A "good scrubbing" is the least of the precautions.
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