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Health Risks of Dog Feces Exposure: What You Need to Know


Question
This is going to be a weird problem but I am a little concern about the effects it will have on me.  I am house sitting for a friend.  She has 13 dogs in her house, she allows them to defecate every where.  She doesn't have an outdoor space that they can go right now.  I didn't know it was as bad until I went into the house that night.  She wants me to stay with them but I don't like the smell of the house and they want to climb all over me.  They walk in everything then they are on the couch and the bed.  I have been there for not more then a couple hours through out the day but I slept there one night.  Now I have a sore throat, sneezing and coughing.  I was not sick before I went out there.  Should I be concerned about bacteria from the fecal matter, I have to clean it up everyone night?  I don't know whether its a cold or from being with them.  I know I am not allergic because I have a dog of my own that goes outside, never in the house.  Could you help me?

Answer
that is pretty revolting.... I would refuse to stay in a house where dogs s*&#t all over the floor.  The sneezing and coughing is probably just a cold or allergies to something (dogs) but it is not unreasonable to refuse to house sit/stay over there with that level of nastiness.

People can be allergic to some dogs but not others.