Has to be a heavy cup..I've tried a cup before but they always ended up flipping it. Maybe my problem is using plastic throwaway cups. I don't want to use good drinking cups for dirty birds.
The cups will wash just fine. My father was the same about letting a dog lick a plate. He absolutely did not want to eat off of the same plate that a dog had licked clean no matter how many times you washed the plate.I've tried a cup before but they always ended up flipping it. Maybe my problem is using plastic throwaway cups. I don't want to use good drinking cups for dirty birds.
It's been a busy past few days. Tried spending as much family time with my son as I could. He arrived in boot camp last night. Well, kinda. They have them staying at a hotel outside of the base for a 14 day quarantine. We are officially empty nesters and it hasn't even sunk in yet. The eggs that I had Daisy sitting on were duds. 
I gave her 3 eggs that I know for sure are fertilized so we have started over. 
Since I'm hatching so many, they kinda disappear into the rest of the flock after a while. The only chick I've helped that I can tell apart from the rest is Robinson. He'll probably end up being a main flock rooster if I don't use him for breeding (he'll get culled if he turns into a snot).
My pug just licked our dinner plates last night. I wash them and it’s just fine.
I used to put my plate on the floor for my beagle to "clean". After that I just used it again. Why waste money on hot water and soap when the plate was spotless?
Beagles clean plates quite good. Ours is like a vacuum. Gets every crumb off
As long as you don't name your dogs Soap and Water and substitute them for the real things.
And my cousin says the dog saliva makes the plate slimy, which is hard to get off.
