Had to cut my trip out short and come straight home after an incident in pets at home.
Some irresponsible dog owner has let their dog take a big, sloppy shite right in the middle of the floor and walked off and left it. Inevitably multiple people have walked through it, smearing it all across the floor in every direction for a good 3 metre square area. No signs, no staff attending to it or diverting people from walking there so presumably it hadn't been noticed yet.
It was right in front of all the small animal cages at the front of the shop, and the only reason i didn't walk right in to it first entering the shop is there was a big crowd there looking at the little pets so i went to see the reptiles first. Coming from the other side i just noticed in time right before i stood in one of the big smears trailed down the aisle.
I only saw it because force of i habit i look at the floor when i'm walking as i have severe OCD about germs (exclusively pee and crap germs) and have to make sure i don't stand in anything, but i usually only do this out doors.
Cue me almost having a massive panic attack while i frantically scour the floor of where i had walked to see if there were more smears, and examining the bottom of my shoes and the hem of my jeans that unfortunately go on the floor in these shoes, but are the only ones i can get on atm, trying to see if there's even the minutest bit got on me. Noticed whilst doing this just a few feet from the crap pile a dog (presumably same one, i hate to think there are two such shit owners been through there so close together) had pissed all up the corner of the shelves and was a puddle on the floor, which i had walked right past, so now panicking i've stood in pee as well and shite.
There's no way the owner of the offending dog didn't notice what it had done, and they've made no attempt to clean it up and just left it to be traipsed through, with a lot of kids in because it's a weekend. If they go out with their dog they should have clean up provisions, if they had ran out they were in a shop that sells poop bags and such, and if they had no money on them they could have asked staff for some paper towels or other cleaning supplies to clear up. At the very least, they could have played dumb it wasn't their dog and alerted a member of staff there was dog mess in the middle of the floor, not that some poor staff member should have to clean it up.
This has completely ruined my day, and my anxiety is now through the roof, with intrusive thoughts that will continue for god knows how long about if there was anything on my shoes/jeans that i didn't see, if i've walked that into the house, if its all over the car mat, etc, which will happen every time i go out as i have to stand on the mats again and can't bin them because it's a rental car. I've had to change the jeans i'd only had on 2 hours and spray disinfectant over all my carpets and floors where i've walked, and the car mat, but i still don't feel things are "clean" and feel i'm contaminating everything. Who knows how this will also affect all the other people who did stand in it, or those like me who can't be 100% certain they didn't.
AIBU to think people who don't clean up after their dogs are vile and irresponsible and not properly caring for it, and shouldn't be allowed to have them?