I gave a recipe for WWI chlorine gas that will sanitize anything of this planet, but Chrome thought better of it.
Did anyone else read the title, and picture a pet putting a tree limb into a cup?
Actually, I thought of a cat bringing a “present” and dropping into your cup. Mouse limb, insect part. I’m definitely not drinking that.
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.
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”.
Ah, Tibby, I’ve missed you.
However, this was the correct answer. 
It’s every fucking thread, isn’t it?
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?
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.
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.
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.
Foot, hell yah because I know where it’s been; it usually upsets the cup anyway. I’ve never had a tail dunk.
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!”
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]
that explains the user name…
↑↑↑ This. 
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.
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)
Dude…wait, what?
I can change the rims on my car. What’s so unusual about that?
:smack: