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Dogs? Public spaces? Water fountains and such? Horrific! I will never ever use a public water dispenser ever again after seeing that woman let their dog drink

Dogs? Public spaces? Water fountains and such? Horrific! I will never ever use a public water dispenser ever again after seeing that woman let their dog drink from one. He basically licked the whole thing from left to right. Public anything is basically burnt for me (not just by that incident) because you never know what pigs were there before you.

guythedudebro 5y ago
You sound like the type of person that should stay inside regardless
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  What I was referring to is this type, which is all over NA: https://guernseypress.com/resizer/wqzY3eM03C94C0m8mSZP_zKpXIs=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-guernseypress-mna.s3.amazonaws.com/public/U3NTYOAXVRCDZJFXDT4JSEP2LI.jpg https://guernseypress.com/resizer/wqzY3eM03C94C0m8mSZP_zKpXI... Now imagine that the dog literally licked the part that the water comes out of all over. I'm totally fine with dogs. I'm totally fine with dogs licking their owners and anyone that wants them to. Heck I have nothing against dogs licking my hands. But I absolutely cannot understand how I am downvoted for an unsanitary practice that nobody has a chance to do anything against. The next poor guy going to the fountain 30 seconds later will have no idea. Would you find it OK if I went and spit on the nozzle before you went? That's the equivalent.
  - guythedudebro 5y ago
    Yeah, that's a dick move from the dog owner for sure. But, it's both not out of the realm of something you should probably expect from public features and also probably not harmful enough to swear off of them.
goatse-4-u 5y ago
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ben_w 5y ago
You’d hate Switzerland. Public fountains everywhere, their supply fresh from all the surrounding mountains, multiply redundant, many of which are clearly intended to be dog friendly. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drinking_fountains_in_Switzerland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drinking_fountai...
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  I love what I see there! And like you said, dog friendly is awesome. What is not awesome is when dog owners assume that everyone is fine with the same things that they're fine with from _their_ dog. Now for one thing that I love here for example is how dog owners clean up after their dogs. That is exemplary. There's a law here that requires dog owners to clean up after their pet and take the poop with them/to the next trash can. Compare that to Germany, where there's dog poop all over the place. Not many people clean up after their dogs there (haven't been in a while, so maybe it's changed and Switzerland might be different - my great aunt always carried a bag and a shovel even 35+ years back but she's the only one I've ever seen do this and we had lots of dogs around)
  - ben_w 5y ago
    I’ve not noticed much dog mess here in Berlin, though it is non-zero. Zürich area (not sure about the rest of the country) has free dog poo bag dispensers every few hundred meters.

guythedudebro 5y ago

You sound like the type of person that should stay inside regardless

tharkun__ 5y ago
What I was referring to is this type, which is all over NA: https://guernseypress.com/resizer/wqzY3eM03C94C0m8mSZP_zKpXIs=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-guernseypress-mna.s3.amazonaws.com/public/U3NTYOAXVRCDZJFXDT4JSEP2LI.jpg https://guernseypress.com/resizer/wqzY3eM03C94C0m8mSZP_zKpXI... Now imagine that the dog literally licked the part that the water comes out of all over. I'm totally fine with dogs. I'm totally fine with dogs licking their owners and anyone that wants them to. Heck I have nothing against dogs licking my hands. But I absolutely cannot understand how I am downvoted for an unsanitary practice that nobody has a chance to do anything against. The next poor guy going to the fountain 30 seconds later will have no idea. Would you find it OK if I went and spit on the nozzle before you went? That's the equivalent.
- guythedudebro 5y ago
  Yeah, that's a dick move from the dog owner for sure. But, it's both not out of the realm of something you should probably expect from public features and also probably not harmful enough to swear off of them.

goatse-4-u 5y ago

ben_w 5y ago

You’d hate Switzerland. Public fountains everywhere, their supply fresh from all the surrounding mountains, multiply redundant, many of which are clearly intended to be dog friendly. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drinking_fountains_in_Switzerland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drinking_fountai...

tharkun__ 5y ago
I love what I see there! And like you said, dog friendly is awesome. What is not awesome is when dog owners assume that everyone is fine with the same things that they're fine with from _their_ dog. Now for one thing that I love here for example is how dog owners clean up after their dogs. That is exemplary. There's a law here that requires dog owners to clean up after their pet and take the poop with them/to the next trash can. Compare that to Germany, where there's dog poop all over the place. Not many people clean up after their dogs there (haven't been in a while, so maybe it's changed and Switzerland might be different - my great aunt always carried a bag and a shovel even 35+ years back but she's the only one I've ever seen do this and we had lots of dogs around)
- ben_w 5y ago
  I’ve not noticed much dog mess here in Berlin, though it is non-zero. Zürich area (not sure about the rest of the country) has free dog poo bag dispensers every few hundred meters.