# Do you throw out your cup of tea if your pet puts a limb inside? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909 "2017-06-14T00:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/21 "2017-06-14T03:56:41Z")
I gave a recipe for WWI chlorine gas that will sanitize anything of this planet, but Chrome thought better of it. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/22 "2017-06-14T03:58:41Z")
Did anyone else read the title, and picture a pet putting a tree limb into a cup? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/23 "2017-06-14T04:18:06Z")
Actually, I thought of a cat bringing a “present” and dropping into your cup. Mouse limb, insect part. I’m definitely not drinking that. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/24 "2017-06-14T04:27:12Z")
No. No animals ever get on the table – I have larger dogs and no cats, but I have very very little ick about any animals. If something falls into my tea mostly I just fish it out. I draw the line at flies. And cigarette ash. Luckily none of my dogs are smokers. I don’t like anybody licking me except my husband though. My dogs know this. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/25 "2017-06-14T12:08:34Z")
As my free-lance part-time hooker-friend told me, when we shared a straw in a 72-ouncer from McDonalds “Ive had worse things than that in my mouth”. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/26 "2017-06-14T13:42:04Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > \ > > I can give myself a rimjob and often drink out of my cat’s bowl. He doesn’t seem to mind. Ah, **Tibby** , I’ve missed you. > [@Penfeather](#): > > Why would I throw out a perfectly good dog? However, _this_ was the correct answer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/27 "2017-06-14T13:44:43Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#): > > So, when you have your dogs on your desktop/kitchen table … > [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, back up: When you have your dogs on the table? It’s every fucking thread, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/28 "2017-06-14T14:51:52Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#): > > So, when you have your dogs on your desktop/kitchen table and are reading a newspaper while drinking some liquid and your dog or pet dunks a tail inside, do you throw it out? What about if he puts a paw or leg inside, or puts his entire snout into it and drinks some? I am asking because I saw something similar on here before. Suppose you crawled around on all fours for a few hours, palms/fingers flat on the ground. In the bathroom, outdoors in the dirt, poking your fingers around in the cat’s litterbox, all of that. Take a dump, maybe get some shit on your fingers, but just wipe them off, don’t wash. Would you stir your drink with your unwashed finger, and then drink that drink? Would you make/eat a sandwich without washing your hands? Would you accept food and drink prepared by someone else who had done this? Why would you ingest food or drink that had been touched by _any_ animal, human or otherwise, who had done this? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/29 "2017-06-14T15:14:58Z")
Rocco, our African Grey, regularly samples anything I’m drinking. I do not let him have coffee or alcohol, but he _loves_ orange juice, cranberry juice, apple juice, and water. Because he only drinks a thimbleful, I finish the mug. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/30 "2017-06-14T15:16:28Z")
It’s probably not all that risky, in the grand scheme of things. More risky than shaking hands with your dog then putting your finger in your mouth, because more bacteria will be transferred from paw to wet drink than from paw to dry skin. Probably a little less risky that that awful kissing (with tongues) thing people do with their dogs, because the dog’s tongue goes everywhere. But regardless risk, it’s not that hard to make another cup of tea, so that’s what I would do. Well, if I lived on a planet where it was normal to let dogs walk on the kitchen table. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/31 "2017-06-14T15:24:57Z")
Tail or paw? Yeah, probably. My dog’s feet are filthy. And she likes to lay in a dirt hole in the yard under the porch, so her tail is usually pretty nasty too. But stick her tongue in my beer? Meh, alcohol kills germs, I’ll just share. I kiss her right on her nose. Sometimes she french kisses me back. I’ll feed her a bite of my dinner straight off my fork and then dig that fork right back into my food. Dog spit has magical healing powers. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/32 "2017-06-14T15:35:36Z")
Foot, hell yah because I _know_ where it’s been; it usually upsets the cup anyway. I’ve never had a tail dunk. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/33 "2017-06-14T16:01:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Ulfreida** : > > I draw the line at flies. An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scot are all at the pub drinking, when simultaneously, three flies come along and land in their drinks. The Englishman gets a disgusted look on his face, and sets his mug aside. The Scot fishes the fly out, shrugs his shoulders, and keeps drinking. The Irishman grabs the fly, holds it upside down over the drink, and shouts “Spit it out, yeh bastard!” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/34 "2017-06-14T18:29:11Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > …because the dog’s tongue goes everywhere. Not true, there are 3 places on me where a dog’s tongue has never been! [sub]OK, 2. But I don’t want to talk about it.[/sub] > [@Dogzilla](#): > > I’ll feed her a bite of my dinner straight off my fork and then dig that fork right back into my food. Dog spit has magical healing powers. that explains the user name… ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/35 "2017-06-14T18:38:50Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Tail or paw? Yeah, probably. My dog’s feet are filthy. And she likes to lay in a dirt hole in the yard under the porch, so her tail is usually pretty nasty too. > > But stick her tongue in my beer? Meh, alcohol kills germs, I’ll just share. I kiss her right on her nose. Sometimes she french kisses me back. I’ll feed her a bite of my dinner straight off my fork and then dig that fork right back into my food. Dog spit has magical healing powers. ↑↑↑ This. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/36 "2017-06-14T18:44:59Z")
I don’t freak out if a cat drinks from my water glass. I kiss them on their faces and noses and don’t see much difference there. Paws, though, I’m not a fan if those go in my drink and I’ll let them have their way with it and then wash the glass and replace the drink. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/37 "2017-06-14T19:18:12Z")
Depends on which one… If it was my daughter’s cat, no, probably not. If it was one of my dogs, well - I wouldn’t _need_ to toss it out; they’d displace the entire contents of the cup without any effort on my part. If they didn’t just smash the cup outright. 😛 (Yes, my dogs are HUGE) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/38 "2017-06-14T19:44:19Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > I can give myself a rimjob… Dude…wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/39 "2017-06-14T22:19:26Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Dude…wait, what? I can change the rims on my car. What’s so unusual about that? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-out-your-cup-of-tea-if-your-pet-puts-a-limb-inside/788909/40 "2017-06-14T22:27:07Z")
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