No.
Here's a list of diseases you can get from animals. If you're a healthy adult who doesn't mind the possibility of missing a week of work so you can spend that time in the bathroom, you can go right ahead, but please don't tell your kids, pregnant women, people with organ transplants, or otherwise immunocompromised people that it's okay, like this guy.
And what's his (commonly used) justification? "When's the last time you ever heard or read of a veterinarian dying of a zoonotic disease?" and "While disease transmission does happen now and then, it's usually more of an annoyance (like ringworm) than a threat."
Huh. Tell that to these people.
Animals carry diseases. They shed the organisms in their stool. Then they lick themselves. It doesn't take a genius (although it may take more than a DVM) to figure out the risk involved.
People get sick all the time from kissing their pets. I'm sure some people have died from it.
But even if they didn't, it'd still be gross.
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