Daughters and hygiene

I give the cat dishes a quick rinse under the tap then put them in the dishwasher with our plates. No problems so far!

loopyloo

Yes its strange. My DD is very strict about some things but then she will leave a towel on our bread board and also she doesn't differentiate between hand towels and tea towels.

Towel on the bread board? So what? Aren't towels for drying clean hands?
I don't use tea towels because everything is left to drain, and for towels I use face flannels which are chucked into the washer after a few uses to await the next load.

My cats dishes get rinsed and go in the dishwasher, we’ve not had any stomach upsets.

Ditto, Cossy; I do a citric acid rinse after the dog bedding and only put a coloured wash in - flatcoat retrievers leave tons of black hairon everything!

Avalon: again, ditto. With two retrievers, there is not a crumb left in their bowls, so a daily wash does not happen! No point!

25Avalon

My dog, a Labrador needless to say, licks her stainless steel bowl clean. It only needs a good rinse in the utility room sink. I wouldn’t put it in the dishwasher or the washing up bowl. Like my previous lab she has been taught not to take food without permission and won’t touch a human’s plate even if you put it on the floor in front of her.

I have to laugh at Avalon's labrador. We also have a well trained lab who eats only when given permission. However, a plate of food on the floor in front of her, turn your back and it would be gone and her looking up with an incredibly innocent expression.

DDs dog's plate, fork and water bowl are washed in the sink not bowl with plenty of Fairy, hot water and a separate wash up sponge. Air dried after or with kitchen paper.

DD and dog stay with us every so often and as I have a blood cancer I am especially careful.

Very unlike my daughter’s cocker spaniel Nanny27. He steals food all the time. Bit of a shock after our lab. Put your food on the side table and it’s gone before you realise. He jumps up the countertop to grab food. Nothing is safe. He has had his stomach pumped out for eating unsuitable things on several occasions. One Easter my Easter egg went missing. I found bits of the box behind the settee. He’d eaten a whole chocolate egg including its silver wrapping paper and the sweets inside. Off to the vets yet again.

So long as people keep their pets away from food prep I'm happy - I won't eat at a friend's house any more after seeing her cat sitting on the table where she was prepping the veg and giving the cat an occasional stroke

One of the reasons I won’t buy cakes etc from ‘bring & buy stalls’ or home made stuff in a community setting AmberGran it just puts me off as I don’t know the cleanliness and hygiene measures in the kitchens where such food was made.

Probably just me being fussy, but still 🤷‍♀️

V3ra

I use the sink in the utility room to wash our dog's bowls with washing up liquid, and kitchen roll to wash them and dry them.
I wouldn't use anything we use on our own food items 😕

I do exactly this.
But honestly, I don't think the OP is risking their health by washing the dishes in the washing up water after everything else is done - just don't do the same with the litter tray!

Can't see the problem at all. Some young people these days get carried away by anti-bacterial this and that but the truth is bacteria do us good by giving the immune system a workout. (Our vet says the same and does not use anti-bacterial soap after handling the dogs!) I'm a firm believer that if you share your living space with a pet you are going to get all its germs one way and another. As for the bottom-licking, my guess is the cat's saliva quickly puts paid to any harmful bacteria.

I wash my pets’ bowls after the human ones, same water, same bowl, same sink, same draining board. I do not think my cats and dogs are poisonous or covered with dangerous pathogens, I’m more concerned with the toxic chemicals all around us which are equally bad for our pets and for us.

Quick question asked in genuine curiosity, why do people wash the cat or dog's fork separately? Does it go in the animal's mouth?
(My lab is quite bright but had never mastered knife and fork)

Nanny27

Quick question asked in genuine curiosity, why do people wash the cat or dog's fork separately? Does it go in the animal's mouth?
(My lab is quite bright but had never mastered knife and fork)

Because it’s been used to serve dog did, presumably?
In times past, pet food was minging, eyeballs and arse holes, I think the phrase was. . I believe it’s “fit for human consumption” now. Yum!

Food, not did!

I don’t know what people’s standards of washing up must be like if a fork used to transfer food from tin to bowl remains contaminated after it’s been washed.

A dishwasher will pretty much sterilise it, and a thorough wash with hot water and soap will get it hygienically clean. Unless it is just waved about in lukewarm water, I really don’t see what there is to worry about.

Nanny27

Quick question asked in genuine curiosity, why do people wash the cat or dog's fork separately? Does it go in the animal's mouth?
(My lab is quite bright but had never mastered knife and fork)

Well in my case, our dog is raw fed, so we are extra careful about washing his bowls and any implements used to avoid any dangers of cross-contamination.

watermeadow

I wash my pets’ bowls after the human ones, same water, same bowl, same sink, same draining board. I do not think my cats and dogs are poisonous or covered with dangerous pathogens, I’m more concerned with the toxic chemicals all around us which are equally bad for our pets and for us.

Well said! I agree

We also raw feed all four of the doggies living here, bowls and utensils washed in very hot water. Often pooped into washing machine. But then again we are meat eaters and use raw meat ourselves (not eaten raw )

Cossy, I hope you're not 'pooping' in your washing machine!

Unfortunately I no longer have my beloved dog but I used to just run her dishes through the dishwasher on their own

Like many others on here I am feeling lucky that I have survived this long.
Hot water plus detergent and a good rinse solve most hygiene issues.

Granmarderby10

Like many others on here I am feeling lucky that I have survived this long.
Hot water plus detergent and a good rinse solve most hygiene issues.

Yes, and I think the temperature of the hot water makes a lot of difference----the hotter the better is a quick rule of thumb.