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?

I never give this sort of thing a moment’s thought either.

No just no!
Ils did this. I stopped eating there after that. They don't have a dishwasher. So hand wash only.

Our dog eats off plates and then they go in the dishwasher , he also sleeps on the beds and sofas and nobody has died of anything yet .

Standards for hygiene: If I haven't died it's ok🤣🤣 my word

People are mad. We've got not washing with soap, changing beds bi-annually, dogs licking plates and faces, getting out of bed and putting shoes on inside,

No.

Presumably because you know they’d not want to accept anything to eat/drink if they saw it so on some level you are aware how disgusting it is.

Omg pp not letting guests know your dog licks your plates... just no, that's such a violation. That's not ok

Yes.
As do our best friends (a doctor and nurse couple). No qualms at all.
Every time I've ever made jam the recipe has said run the jars through a hot dishwasher cycle to sterilise.
I assume our plates are similarly sterilised by our hot dishwasher cycle.

My post from the beginning of the thread. I saw the future.

MN at its usual I see.

Don't shower/change bedding/change pyjamas twice a day, you are disgusting and unhygienic.

Let a slobbering mutt eat and drink off your plates as a pre wash, totally normal, no one died yet!

That is disgusting

Yes very normal dog owner practice, I have no issue with it, there's not gonna be any saliva left after a two hour dishwasher clean!

Our family dog always did this. We def would not rinse the plates either.
it was a family joke that you could never reall tell just looking inside the dishwasher if plates were dirty or clean. As they were either clean or recently licked

(the dishwasher always went on though)
if the dishwasher goes on at a high heat I cannot see an issue with this.

That’s different as a handwash will never be as hot.

But a lot of washing up liquid is anti-bac. I do not have a dishwasher (I am the dishwasher lol), but I use anti-bac liquid.

@XenoBitch
fair point, but personally I trust heat over anti-bac

No it's absolutely disgusting. Those that do are probably the same people that call them furbabies and let them sleep in their bed.

Ha, guilty as charged. It does not hurt anyone though.

I call my cat my furbaby and let him sleep in my bed but he's not allowed to lick plates, mostly because we don't let him have human food and partly because he licks his own bum.

We do, but only because we have the dishwasher. Before we had that they weren't allowed

Ugh. Gross.

Agree with others regarding hygiene standards of pet owners. Those who let their cats walk all over the kitchen worktops or have their litter tray in the house. Just gross, gross, gross.

Same here

We had a dog when I was a child who ate it’s own poo. I think it was that that confirmed I was never going to be a dog owner.
The thought of her licking any plates. 🤢

That pic has made my day. What a cutie!

Because you give all your guests a heads up that you let your dogs do that to the plates they're about to eat off of do you?

Oh my word, what a sweetheart.

What a sweetie!