Do you let your dog lick the dishes?

[NinjaSnail]

Lunch at a friend's house last week. Chatting happily. Took plate over to the sink, rinsed it, put it in the dishwasher. Turned around to see her standing behind me holding plate out for dog to lick before adding to the dishwasher.

I love dogs but I have to admit my stomach did turn a little on seeing this. Is this standard for dog owners? I grew up with dogs and we never did this, but I'm wondering if we were in the minority?

Big fat nope from me. That’s all levels of unhygienic and I don’t give a flying fart how hot and efficient the dishwasher is. Just nasty.

I am sure lots of dog owners will be along to say they’ve always done it and nobody died yet. But it would be a huge eww from me.

Absolutely not 🤮

Christ that is disgusting. Pet owners have no hygiene standards.

I love my dogs but no way would I let them lick plates 🤢 between this and the posters who put loo brushes and litter tray scoopers in the dishwasher, I'm never gonna eat at anyone's house again.

Our dog often has a nosey at the dishwasher but gets told off for it. I know lots of people who do it though. Agree I am not a fan, unless you run your dishwasher at 80degrees you won't kill all the bacteria found in a dog's mouth. But I probably do equally unsanitary things with my dog without thinking. They are filthy beasts.

Oi! I’m a pet owner and have very high standards, not dogs though. 😄

No! Who does that?

I let my dog do the prewash on my plates. They get cleaned afterwards.

Yep my dog does the pre wash before the dishwasher goes on 😳

He also cleans my toddlers high chair (obviously I disinfect it afterwards). I am clearly a heathen.

No!

I don’t mind as long as they wash up afterwards.

Disgusting. As bad as people who kiss their dogs on the mouth.

Yuck at calling it a pre-wash. They’re dirtier than just when they had just had food on. 😬 Pre-dirty more like.

Same here!! They get sharp shrift and the children also get the same if they leave the dishwasher open!!

No ,it's disgusting.
I have a friend who does this.

Ewww. I'm sure the "nobody gets ill from it" is the usual justification, but it's still gross, consequences or not.

I let mine. They eat what I've left and lick the plates - then I put them in the dishwasher

Don’t come around here for dinner. The dog is in charge of the pre wash and does a bloody good job.

Of course!! Saves gravy and grease going down the pipes. I call it a public service 🤣🤣

Every unhygienic practice on MN is ok because nobody died or got ill. Yet.

No but the cat has the cereal bowl before it goes in the dishwasher. Which washes at 60c. Germs don’t survive that temperature!

And this is why I don't like eating at others houses; unless they're really close friends.

I like dogs, but that is utterly vile.

No, I haven't and wouldn't - bit grim isn't it, and I wouldn't allow my dog to have 'human' food that wasn't suitable for him either. I'm not saying I've never saved him a little bit of something dog suitable from my plate or slipped him the odd bit of carrot or chicken when I'm prepping food whilst cooking but I can't see why there would ever be a need to let him lick my plate. If I did I'm not sure I'd do it in front of company certainly, seems a bold choice.

From a 'hygiene' perspective, if she's dishwashing the plates on a high temp I can't see that that overly matters as it will be clean afterwards but in general no. Pets in general aren't that hygienic and neither are people so I'm not overly precious at home, I like to cuddle ours and he likes to rub himself on everything in sight so I'm under no illusion that our house is actually clean even if it looks it.

Ok that's quite cute, I have to admit.