Cup rolled onto dog poo

[Eastie77]

I have a new reusable coffee cup. Yesterday while we were in the park I put it down on the grass. DS knocked it over on his scooter and sent it hurtling towards some dog poo. I'm pretty sure the cup rolled over the poo. I have sterilised it but can't bring myself to place it anywhere near my lips. I'm going to throw it away.

DP thinks I'm being ridiculous. I think there is a risk the poo could have transmitted bacteria that could cause serious illness. Or am I being silly?

I caught my Ex scraping dog shit out of the sole of his boots, with our potato peeler. He was going to wash it, and put it back in the cutlery drawer. ER NO. In the bin it went.

You say you are going to bin it so nothing lost Would soak it in bleach and cold water overnight .Then boil it in a pan for 10 minutes if you have a pressure cooker you can put it in that 10 minute in pressure cooker will kill anything.

@Eastie77 god no! 😂😂😂 I'm with you, fully appreciate it's been sterilised etc but every time I went to take a sip I'd know it was tainted 😬🙈

This is exactly why the planet is fucked. You need to address your health anxiety. There is nothing wrong with the cup now it's been washed. FFS.

It must be incredibly restricting never being able to eat in anyone else’s hous, or in cafes and restaurants. Or do you all bring your own plates?

Wait til you hear what farmers put on their veg crops before you eat them

MN - the only place where a normal aversion to something gross must be diagnosed as some kind of anxiety.

Olivia - I use reusable cups all the time and the one I no longer want is going to be re-used by someone else. Happy days all round.

Bertrand - I already said I go to restaurants all the time. Has anyone on the thread mentioned they don't ever eat out?

Mumsnet- the only place where is it considered perfectly ordinary to be worried about bacteria that might cause serious illness remaining on a cup that might have touched dog poo but which has been washed and sterilized....

MN - the only place where a normal aversion to something gross must be diagnosed as some kind of anxiety

Refusing to clean and reuse something and getting rid of it because it might have touched something gross is not a normal aversion.

Refusing to clean and reuse something and getting rid of it because it might have touched something gross is not a normal aversion

Wow then there's a lot of us here with an abnormal aversion!

An aversion to shit is quite understandable and healthy. The revulsion is a protective mechanism. Faeces carries and spreads disease.

I deal with shit daily, picking up after my dog and too often sluicing the shit she likes to roll in off her (fox, cat, cow, horse...) I also trim the hair around her arsehole, wipe her bottom when she’s got runny shit on her hair and have, more than once, had to ease stuff out of her that’s gotten stuck on the way out. I’d still throw away anything that was meant to touch food or drink if it got shit on it.

I can understand not wanting to use it now, even though I would personally have sterilised it and carried on using it. Why don’t you just buy a new lid for it though? They sell the cups and lids separately so you could just buy a new lid rather than paying to replace the whole cup. Neither your mouth nor the drink would touch the outside of the cup part.

The stuff my dog rolls in and/or eats in increasing order of stench and vileness

Rabbit droppings
Sheep droppings
Horse apples
Cow pat (dry)
Cow pat (wet)
Cat shit
Dog shit
Human shit

I didn't realise until now that Frank Green sold lids separately. Good to know if this happens again!

Oh well Barbara, I guess I'm just abnormal then

I should add I have no aversion to the poo either of my DC produce. Does that disqualify me from the health anxiety diagnosis?

Family - totally understand the irony in throwing away a reusable cup. I will drop it off at Oxfam this morning.

And will you tell them it’s been dropped in dog shit? Or is your thinking that it’s not good enough for you, but fine for someone else?

Well I'm confused Family. If you think the cup is fine and not a risk to anyone why would I need to tell the charity shop? Anyway, I already mentioned that I would!

I think it will be perfectly safe to use once it’s been sterilised.

But you said you don’t think it’s safe to use, so it would be dishonest of you not to tell the charity shop about your reservations when you drop it off.

It will be fine to use... however it will always be the poo cup

Unethical option: since you've only just bought it, if you still have it, maybe try and get a refund and buy it again somewhere else

Tell them it didn't keep the drink as warm as you'd hoped or something. It isn't something I'd do personally but then again, I'd have probably convinced myself that no poo touched anywhere that my mouth would.

I'd replace it too.
I like to enjoy my tea, not remember when the cup rolled in dog poo.

Presumably you don’t actually think the cup could cause illness or you wouldn’t be giving it to Oxfam for an unknowing person to drink out of? So yes, the whole thing seems a bit silly and dramatic. But given that it will be absolutely fine now it’s been washed and sterilised far better to give it to Oxfam than throw it away.

They’re gorgeous cups though, you’ve got good taste!