@Twidrew
@Changeling17N
Leeches are still used on occasion as a treatment for certain things. Not nearly as much since the Four Humors Theory fell out in favor of Germ Theory, but still.

@Twidrew
Huh, I see.

@Changeling17N
In the past doctors used leeches

@Draco-knight-Blaze
I mean, maybe not life threatening but having a leech suck your blood is rather bad.

@Changeling17N
How is it dangerous?

Awww, so cute, but that’s rather dangerous offer

Sure

@Anoncrsh  
@Background Pony #0690  
You should feed the leech pone :P

@ACApenetrator50  
That is the safer option as far as infection goes. I approve!

How about some salt

@Badumsquish  
This takes me back to the times where I saw a leech right next to my foot.😱😱

@Damaged  
Agreed. I’d let her have a feed.  
Plus, as redweasel has already pointed out, she looks like she’s already pretty well-fed, so she probably wouldn’t take much anyway.
 
@SCH01  
Yeah, leeches (and a myriad of other parasites) aren’t pleasant to think about in depth.

@Background Pony #0365  
She seems fairly well-mannered. I’d let her use all her mouths, but would warn her there’s some funky stuff in there.

@Background Pony #0365  
Well this gives me nightmares

Leeches have three mouths, each with 100 teeth, and anaesthetic saliva, so while one of her mouths is asking you for your blood, the other two could just be taking it right there in front of you, and you could very well be none the wiser.

She’s so cute I I’m mit be slain

@Background Pony #536F  
Means she would be immune to malaria though

@Badumsquish
 
she’s probably just bummed that a leech can drink enough blood to sustain itself for years, and wants a little nibble here and there for affection.

@redweasel  
She’s definitely chonky :D
 
@ÜberReaktor  
@ObliviaTheChangeling  
They can even be bred to be completely sterile. They even still use them today for bloodletting and such because it’s painless, effective, and won’t infect the patient :D

@redweasel  
Well, then. She can go right ahead.

@redweasel  
In that case, hook me up

nice try, faker! that’s a fat leech full of blood, if I ever saw one!
 
fatty fat fat!
 
@ObliviaTheChangeling  
@ÜberReaktor
 
interestingly, leeches do not transmit any blood-borne diseases… provided they don’t get squeezed. it’s only literal backwash that can infect people with contaminated blood.

‘Ok. But no infecting me, please.’

Don’t know if you want my blood is sickle cell trait blood ok

@ObliviaTheChangeling  
@ACApenetrator50  
Like I said in my first comment (under the spoiler), leech saliva is an anaesthetic, so them feeding on you doesn’t hurt, and oftentimes, people don’t even notice a leech feeding on them if they don’t see it.I  
Which is a thing, ‘cause, as I also said in the first comment (again, under the spoiler), leech have three mouths with a hundred teeth in each, and frankly, I wouldn’t want to feel that.