# Gross or not - Dog drinking from regular fountain at park

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071 "2010-07-18T00:43:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071/61 "2010-07-19T23:23:09Z")

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I’m in the group that thinks that if this is a problem for you, you probably shouldn’t be drinking from a public fountain. All kinds of things happen to public fountains.

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**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071/62 "2010-07-20T13:18:25Z")

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My kids were in our pool yesterday and they were letting our 12 week old chocolate lab pup drink water out of their mouth. They would get a mouthful of water and go to the side of the pool, open their mouths and Jessie would drink it… I thought it was hilarious and the kids are still alive today, so is the dog.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071/63 "2010-07-20T13:26:11Z")

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I think it’s gross, but then I hate when dogs lick me, too, and never, ever let a dog lick me on my face.

But it’s not like that would stop me from drinking from the fountain. I’d probably just make a face and then carry on.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071/64 "2010-07-20T13:34:36Z")

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It’s interesting that some folks are bothered by the frequency with which dogs lick their own asses, while others don’t seem to mind if a dog’s tongue goes straight from its own ass to their mouths. Different strokes, I guess. The problem with dog feces (at least to my way of thinking) is that it often contains parasites’ eggs. (Roundworm and hookworm, specifically.) Hence I won’t be kissing any dogs.

(Yeah, I suppose you could argue by the same token that we don’t know how many _humans’_ tongues have gone from someone’s ass to the water fountain.)

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**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-or-not-dog-drinking-from-regular-fountain-at-park/547071/65 "2010-07-20T21:10:29Z")

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Again. If \*\*you \*\*aren’t licking the spigot, why does it even matter if a dog drank out of it? It’s an irrational phobia.

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