toxic_badgers t1_j1owxs8 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 5:07 AM

Reply to comment by PremierLovaLova in TIL Why Dog Paws Smell Like Fritos. Even the cleanest, healthiest pooch has trillions of bacteria and fungi living on their skin. That yeasty, corn chip smell is actually a normal byproduct of harmless bacteria, usually Proteus or Pseudomonas, both of which are naturally present in our environment. by Rossknight65

> Pseudomonas isn’t harmless for humans.

there are hundreds if not thousands of pseudomonas species out there... some of which live inside your gut as resident bacteria. Some of them create antibiotics.

Psuedomonas aeruginosa? sure bad... but not all species are P. aeruginosa.