Dig licking plates before going into dishwasher - ick or not

The fact you even have to ask if this is ok would stop me eating anything in your house. What other grossly unhygienic habits do you have?

Wow this is disgusting! Who cares if it's washed in the dishwasher. Would you eat of a plate that someone shat on and then washed in the dishwasher? Well you probably would considering your dog eats shit, licks other dogs arses including its own, and is a dog! 🤮 I can't believe you're so oblivious you did this in front of guests 🤯 Ewwww!

Also, don’t pre rinse plates as modern dishwashers wrongly assumes load is “clean” and don’t wash as thoroughly. Grim for human plates. Worse for plates licked clean by a dog 🤢

Well according to logic here that’d be fine cos the dishwasher would clean it

This is completely disgusting. I can’t believe the amount of people that are ok with it. Dishwashers are not 100 percent. They are often stacked wrong and don’t cover all areas.

dogs spend their life sniffing and licking other animals arse holes. My dog eats cat shit when she finds it.

there is no way they should be licking human plates.

i honestly cannot believe I am readying this.

scrape it in the dogs bowl by all means. I would not have my kids eat off those plates either.

I mean - rationally - I'm sure it's fine, but the optics of the plates and cooking pans you've just eaten from being put down on the floor to be slurped all over by a dog is going to be pretty gross to a lot of (most?) people.

@Happyspendingthedayinthegarden

If they are being cleaned in the dishwasher I don’t see a problem at all- dishwashers sanitise the things that are put in there …

If we are having a nice meal and one of us leaves some on the plate we put it down for our dog at the end of the meal

They only live a short time and deserve some bloody plate licks every now and again it really isn’t hurting anyone in my opinion

OP, you’re going to get uptight, judgey fuckers on here, I wouldn’t have bothered posting. They’ve clearly forgot where their mouths have been over the years themselves … lol

that's disgusting.

I wouldn't let a dog lick plates & would be a bit wary eating at someones home if I knew they did. I understand they are going in the dishwasher after but it still just seems not great to me

I mean I don’t do it, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it either. Dishwashers are made to clean the dishes.

Do folk not understand "dishwasher" here? Our cats eat of our plates regularly (rarely our choice, the little shites are fast!), I'm sure dogs are just as sneaky. If soap and water can wash dog slobber off your hands, it definitely can off your plate.

Hmm. Dog lover here and whilst this wouldn’t bother me I can see how this would put people off.
We had a black lab when I was young who used to hang out near the dishwasher for prewash duties….so this post made me smile.

That’s disgusting 🤮

At risk of sounding like I'm taking this all too seriously too, there are very few zoonoses that humans can get from rabbits, and only a couple of those are via the faecal-oral route, so you’re probably all right 😂
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Do you eat frozen fruit and vegetables, @shuggles? Because some studies suggest that up to a quarter of frozen fruit and veg are contaminated with Listeria or E. coli. I would assume not because, as you say, why take the risk?

Infection from Capnocytophaga caninorsus in humans.is very rare, especially in immunocompetent individuals. The most common mode of transmission of is from bites, the second is from animal scratches. The likely mode of transmission in the cases you have linked to is via mucous membranes from licks to the face, not plates that have been through the dishwasher. Have a search on PubMed if you don’t believe me.

Stroking dogs or letting them lick you is much more “disgusting” (well, higher risk)…

Yeah, maybe it is sad to some but I just can’t. I’ll preface this with saying that I will admit, I do have “obsessively” high levels of hygiene standards but I would be more comfortable if a lot of people just had some, even basic, hygiene standards. But to name a few, I’ve witnessed on many occasions (IRL & online) that people are far too comfortable with using the loo and not washing their hands afterwards, seeing dirty fingernails, cats feeding bowls on the kitchen counters with the cats having free reign of the entire kitchen sides, - with those things in mind & the thought of them then dealing with & handling food, is just too much. I physically can’t do it.

We have a rescue greyhound who loves nothing more than to stick her snout in the dishwasher and prewash our pots. She could be in the deepest sleep ever upstairs and would still hear the dishwasher door go. We don’t allow our dogs to lick plates and cups off the floor but our grey will give things a good once over when in the dishwasher. If we have food going or the end of a brew we put in in their bowls which also go in the dishwasher on a high temp.

Euugghh…that’s revolting…. I wouldn’t want to eat there. 🤢

Well again, please inform any guests of your poor hygiene standards and give them the choice if they want to eat from plates that animals have licked.

Or, just train your pets? A clear 'sit' or 'wait' works well ime.

Well I said YANBU because I also do it but wouldn’t in someone else’s home. A non dog lover is never going to get it. Dogs need to be up to date with worming.

Sure I read somewhere a human bite is worse than a dog bite (bacteria)?

Wow I can’t believe how many think this is grim. They’re cleaned through a dishwasher so bacteria will be gone.
I don’t personally put plates down and would scrape into a bowl and wait until a little after dinner if they did have scraps (more not to encourage expecting it all the time - young dog so still learning manners) however it is near impossible to stop the dog licking the plates as they get loaded unless I was to put them outside every time I opened the dishwasher… and im not overly fussed if they do lick them - because the dishwasher cleans them. The dog is regularly wormed, flea treated and is vaccinated.
OP has nothing to feel awkward about

@KnickerFolder I am fairly sure the primary mode of transmission from dogs to humans is bites or contact of dog saliva with broken skin…

"Primary," meaning other modes of transmission are possible, and certainly there are a number of cases of transmission where no broken skin was involved.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/18/health/dog-saliva-infection-capnocytophaga/index.html

www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/german-man-dies-after-being-licked-his-dog-n1091676

There has never been a case of a human becoming infected after eating from a plate that has been washed after a dog licked it

Not that you know of. Why take the chance?

Even if it doesn't result in infection, it's still disgusting.

a second disgusting thing doesn't automatically stop the first thing from also being disgusting... 🙄

most people saying it was gross were commenting on the idea of any dog licking any dishes, not just OP's specific dog, her specific dishes and the potential germ-related hypocrisy of her specific dil

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/marina-fogle-dogs-microbiome-2vnszkclx

Article published 6 days ago

I thought this was awful until we got a dog. Now, he carries on licking plates after they're stacked in the dishwasher. I rationalise that a plate with blood from a joint of meat is also ick but that comes out of the dishwasher clean. You'll have to buy DIL a dog. Then she'll see sense.