You can make $1,000 an hour smelling dog breath

Would you smell stinky dog ​​breath for $1,000 an hour? Of course you would and you can.

A New York City-based dog food subscription company called Spot & Tango is hiring contractors for two very specific, very unconventional roles — a dog breath sniffer and a dog kisser — both paying up to $1,000 an hour. Yes, you read that right.

The Breath Sniffer gig involves scouting NYC dog parks, performing breath tests on willing pups, and developing what the list calls a “funk-o-meter evaluation metric.” Candidates are expected to keep detailed scent notes – think “hint of tuna, eau de garbage, lovely neutral” – and run real-time competitive analysis. A sharp nose is non-negotiable. “If you are a sommelier, chocolatier, barista or perfumer, you are perfect,” the overview says.

Experience in veterinary technology or pet wellness is a bonus but not a requirement. However, unlimited dog hugs are guaranteed.

This dog food company pays $1,000 an hour for a dog kisser and breather (seriously)

However, the Kisser role is essentially quality control. Successful candidates will accept kisses from a rotating list of city dogs, document and rate each interaction, scout potential canine ambassadors in the five boroughs and report the results back to the team. The ideal hire is obsessed with dogs and, according to the ad, possesses “thick skin, a soft heart and a face that dogs instinctively want to lick.” Both positions come with what the company describes as “killer merch.”

Worth noting – this isn’t Spot & Tango’s first rodeo. The company posted a similar respiratory role last year, except it paid significantly less, at $25 an hour. Apparently the budget has grown. The work supports the brand’s PupGum dental chew, designed to tackle bad breath and reduce bacteria associated with periodontal disease in dogs.

Before you update your CV, however, there is something you should probably know. The long held belief that a dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s is medically completely false. “Dogs spend half their lives with their noses in bad corners or hovering over dog droppings, so their mouths are full of bacteria, viruses and germs of all kinds,” said John Oxford, professor of virology and bacteriology at Queen Mary University of London. New York Post. A bacteria found in dog saliva, Capnocytophaga Canimorsus, can cause fatal infections, including sepsis and organ failure.

Comments online were predictably divided. One person said they would happily do it for that price. Another pointed out that plenty of pet owners let their dogs lick their faces for free every single day.

Hard to argue with any of them. The application is open.