what dangers and risks for your ANIMAL are involved

This? There should be so much more on this

In some individuals (mostly female humans), contact with animal semen can even lead to an anaphylactic shock that needs professional treatment.

Whoa, I had no idea... Do you know if there's any way to test for a potential allergic reaction before full intercourse? Maybe a dab of semen on the skin? It would be incredibly embarrassing (or worse) to have to go to the emergency room because you're dying from a bad case of Spot's spunk spelunking.

Zoophilia and health

Sexual contact with animals is associated with several significant health risks. Areas of possible concern are infection, physical injury and allergic reaction.

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The article you were referred to is a bit alarmist. The main disease it focuses on -- brucellosis -- is almost unheard of in domestic animals.

STD is the abbreviation for "sexually transmittable disease" and is NOT only about human diseases, you wannabe expert. Every horse breeder knows about equine STDs, every dog breeder knows about canine STDs. Seems you´re not so fucking smart as you want us to believe. Oh, by the way, the plural of "zoonosis" is "zoonoses"...and no, this isn´t a new sex practice about sticking your nose into an animal´s orifice...For someone with a self proclaimed IQ of 135, you´re one hell of an uneducated dumbass. Especially entertaining is your obvious and blatantly exposed ignorance of the fact that you can give the animal some diseases too by sleeping with them. Quite anthropocentric, right? Especially for a self proclaimed "zoophile", isn´t it?

Can´t you just be dumb elsewhere?

Things which can have negative effects on your dog are:

• lack of body hygiene. Infections can occur when you don´t wash yourself properly, the penis´ smegma can cause infections (rare) or allergic reactions ranging from mild to severe. Also a part of this category is , for example, doing anal with your dog and then vaginal without cleaning your cock in between. Feces do not belong into a vagina.

• genuine allergic reactions. As you can be allergic to dog semen, so can a bitch to your semen. Although rare, it can occur. Also possible: "chemical" incompatibility. I´ve told you about my experience with a mare´s acidic urine and the cockpeeling I had to do afterwards. This is also possible vice versa.

• ruptures and injuries. Although a horse´s colon is less sensitive than a human´s , it´s not made of steel. Hard friction in any animal orifice can lead to injuries and infections following. Unintentionally injuring an animal´s colon has led to quite a lot of deaths due to infection of the fissure. Stuff like that goes unnoticed by the "zoophile" the first few days because you cannot see the injury, but can result in the animal´s death when undetected and untreated. Doesn´t matter what the gays say, but colons are NOT made for intercourse. Nature did NOT intend giving an option for "door number two".

• the issue of "overimprinting". Let´s say there´s a gay guy horny for stallion dick. He buys a horse and teaches this horse to fuck him. As with any male, once the horse gets "the idea" he can fuck anything two-legged that bends over, he won´t hesitate to "do his thing". With anyone coming near him. Once a "conditioned" stallion tries to perform his newly learned "trick" on an ignorant outsider, things get awkward. The outsider considers the stallion´s advances an attack and will inform the authorities. The end of the story? Three syringes full of an anaesthetic overdose for the horse.

• Interrupting a female´s heat cycle. Some animal females can experience negative effects from sleeping with them outside their "right time". Effects like developing a fake pregnancy are rare, but possible. You always have to take into consideration that you´re mingling around with a very complex hormonal system that is active in a female animal´s body. Hormonal imbalance in female animals can have different negative effects, ranging from mild behavioural changes to severe chronic complications and sicknesses of internal organs. As much as we zoos want to think of ourselves as absolutely compatible to our preferred species, in reality we´re not. We still are humans. Our semen is not compatible (thus no offspring is possible), our genitals only basically match theirs. "Our", human behaviour doesn´t match theirs. They have mating seasons, we don´t.

• Various. I remember that my first mare and I used to catch a cold almost simultaneously. Don´t kno whether there was a direct link between our colds, but with the years, I learned to expect getting a cold within the next two or three days whenever my mare had snotty nostrils, the yucky, yellowish stuff, not the clear or opaque white stuff. I also remember having a sore eye, like, when you wake up and can´t open your eye because it is glued shut. I usually get this when I drive my car with an opened side window or when I excessively use my topless sports car for more than just a few kilometers. Well, with my first mare, I had the habit of kissing her onto one of her eyelids and then pressing my eye directly onto her closed one. She enjoyed that form of intimacy very much, but I swear that whenever I did this with the "sore eye" I described above, she also had mucus coming from her eye, the one I was pressing mine onto, exactly the next day. And more than two decades ago, when I hadn´t met my longtime partner yet, I had slept with a lovely cremello mare named Lea. She really was a very nice lady, had a gorgeous body (all white and pink, you know...;) ), but suffered from genitals warts. Our affair was shortlived and lasted only a few weeks before she got sold because she was too sensitive to be used as a training horse for the beginners. I still pity myself for not having had the money it took to buy her myself, but anyways...Soon after our affair ended, a wart on my praeputium (foreskin, I wasn´t circumcised then) developed. You have to know, when I was a teenager, I suffered from warts, I had quite a few of them and once I killed one, the next one started to grow. Then I had a motorcycle accident that almost made me lose my right forearm. I was hospitalised for more than a month and my body was literally flushed with antibiotics and in this process, all my warts had disappeared, I never again developed them for that moment. Although I was working, hard physical work that surely gave enough opportunities for warts to haunt me again, it just didn´t happen....until I had sex with Lea. What I´m trying to say is that this could also be possible the other way around and when you suffer from stuff like warts, there´s a possibility you can give them to your animal partner, too. The species barrier isn´t as impenetrable as society thinks...IMHO.

• What else? Well, although you wanted a focus on STDs´n stuff, there are more ways in which an animal can be negatively influenced by us "animal lovers". Sexual contact is the most imtimate form of contact , it has lots of effects on our quadruped partner, on its behaviour, its instincts and its reproductive cycle as well as on its body in general. Extreme practices, like "anal fisting" and other crap that´s exclusively human bullshit should be avoided. It´s not the animals that has to adapt, it´s our, it´s the true zoophile´s duty to NOT neglect the fact we´re NOT doing it with an individual of our own species. It´s always healthy to include your mind in your loving, it helps tremenduously to avoid stupid mistakes and bloopers that your animal partner has to pay for. Humans usually are dumb and self centered, with a narrow, human viewpoint excluding their quadruped partner´s needs . Oh, they will ALL insist on their advanced knowledge of their species´ sexual functions and "body language", but usually these blokes are outright fooling themselves to justify their beasty cravings. True zoophilia always turns the human into animal, not humanise the animal, if you knwo what I mean. If you really are so upset about diseases you or your animal can transmit , then viewing a list isn´t the end, but just the beginning. Do a little research on the difference and how bacteria and viruses reproduce, then draw your own conclusions once you see the biological logic behind.Don´t just read, understand.

But usually, STDs and other severe illnesses don´t play a big role in zoophilia; they seldom occur and I, into this entire online "zoo" community for more than two decades, cannot remember meeting one single person who contracted a zoonosis. I´ve heard about a few allergic reactions, mostly on the human side, but a few where the animal showed mild reactions when exposed to human body fluids such as semen and saliva. I remember kissing a mare´s labia (well, ermh, enthusiastically kissing her labia for a couple of minutes ;) ) and she had a slight reddening and also some small pimples the next day exactly where I kissed her the previous day.

Just keep your eyes open and watch your animal partner´s body closely, especially when you´re not familiar with your animal yet. But also don´t get sloppy even when you have been with this animal for decades. Keep your brain in an alert mode and don´t hesitate to consult a vet or a doctor whenever one of you two develops unusual signs. Always use all of your senses, you can easily spot some intra uterine infections in your animal by simply knowing how it smells, for example. Never become too sure, never consider yourself a Mr Knowitall. The linked wiki article is condensed theoretical knowledge spiced up by incompletely documented actual cases of which the most are focusing on non sexual transmission. Real studies on this specific topic don´t exist and it is safe to assume they won´t be conducted in the near future. So, your..our best bet is to use common sense. Are you into taking a dick that´s unwashed for a month now? Are you willing to have a hand shoved up your rectum without the nails clipped? And if you get "trained" for fucking every day, can´t you imagine how easily this can get out of hands/backfire in the most inappropriate situations? As a female, do you want your own poop in your "fun box", with all the bacteria in it? Do you want to have sex with a walking cornucopia of STDs contracted from fucking around relentlessly, two- and four legged? Well, "computer says no"...;)

Oh, never hesitate to consult a vet whenever you spot unusual stuff. Usually, the vets don´t have interspecies sexual contact on their radar and animals can get all kinda of stuff from various sources. Intra uterine infections , for example, can be caused by hormonal imbalances alone, so never be too afraid to consult the expert, it´s your animal that might suffer from your apathy and/or pantshitting.

Hope this made some sense...somehow...but ATM I´m sitting in my living room, awake...again, ´cause it´s unbearably moisty hot and I´hammered as hell from two bottles of "Doppelbock", a beer with 8,1% alcohol...and the obligatory couple of slim dutchies. I´m just about to get dressed to feed my ladies...I guess I will cancel the usual morning routine today and try to get some sleep instead...