Catfood forks in the dishwasher

[DancingDolly]

Aibu in thinking it's wrong? Dp chucks them in and it makes me recoil a bit to see them sitting there with little bits of catfood on next to the other cutlery.

If I'm right, how should they be washed? How do you wash your petfood implements?

Thankyou InNeedOfBrandy!
70isa, see that is the sort of thing I mean. Medical things can go one way, so why not the other?
And they would probably not be ever attributed to the cat in any way.

Salmotrutta, can you guarantee the "high quality meat" bit??

I used to live near the place where a very popular supermarket packaged 90% of its meat. I personally knew several people who worked there, as the supermarket used some locals.
The stories we heard from there would make your hair curl.
Actually there was a tv documentary eventually done about it. The place has now shut.
And that is the food that is quite probably in your fridge right now, ready for your consumption.

Need to put a proviso with that.
Maybe said major supermarket has now totally cleaned up its act?

Perspective needed here.

Quite apart from the fact that dog/cat food is made to human food standards, the dog licking bowl thing is only disgusting if you actually believe that everyone washes their hands after using the toilet.

It doesn't matter if you do; what matters is if they don't, think light switch/door handle.

The food in the dishcloth IS gross, I agree, which is why I replace dishcloth, scrubby thing and tea towel daily. More often if a big cook up is on. None of this has anything to do with dogs/cats but with food shite caught up in cloths/ scrubbers. Bleurgh.

I put my horses bits into my dishwasher and sometimes my stirrups too!

EMS - sometimes my DH does that when he thinks I don't notice I always do

I put something in for googling, but posted it by mistake.

"StinkyminkymooSun 06-Jan-13 07:35:28

I put my horses bits into my dishwasher"

Poor horse :(

Haven't read all of this but I have a cat food fork and spoon. An old Winnie the Pooh set . I mainly use them for scraping the left over bits out of the bowls, so they do touch the bits that the cats have licked. Have three cats. All bowls and cat prep is done in the utility room, away from the kitchen where human washing up, prep takes place. Am with the OP on this.

SPB

Ok, I admit spero, my OP was not very clear. The tone with regards recoiling etc was supposed to be fairly light hearted, in my defence I am long term lurker, first time poster!

To clarify, dp also puts the cats bowls and dishes in the dishwasher. He also has a habit of chucking these items in the washing up bowl in the sink, alongside the cereal bowls etc. I know now rationally that if they're all going to go in the dishwasher, and it doesn't matter, and some people have bigger concerns i.e. no dishwasher and/or zombie invasions.

yabu

Re bridles in the dishwasher. There was an episode of Kim & Aggie how Clean is your house, and the woman got a telling off for putting stirrups and other horse tack in the dishwasher. Just thought I'd let you know it.

Brain parts of animals can survive temperatures of up to 600% celcius.
I think they are called prions?

We need gambas to start a new thread. I have lots of questions.

I really have seen it all now. What do you imagine is in catfood?!

Exactly Emma.
What is in it?

Me too OhYouBadBadKitten.
Your questions would be interesting.

Somewhat perplexed about MNs interest in emergency planning.

My main job is not emergency planning but I would have a role in certain national emergencies. I would be a small cog in a very large wheel, but have a general awareness of what goes on. I would be part of sampling teams providing information about releases of hazardous materials.

However, what I do is very specialist and there are literally only a few hundred people in the entire UK that do what I do so forgive me if I don't go into specifics as I don't want to out myself.

In high profile national emergencies (eg. terrorism, Buncefield fire) everthing is controlled by the Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBR) and the Agency I work for provides information that helps direct strategy. Many other Agencies etc are involved.

I have already said that there is no Zombie Plan. I would expect that it would be treated like a very extreme riot and the army and police would be involved.

Local councils still do have emergency planning departments and would deal with looking after any evacuated people in sports centres etc.

Companies that run sites where an accident may cause an off site hazard are required to do what they can to prevent such emergencies, but also have plans in place to deal with them, that must be rehearsed. There is a lot of work that goes into preventing emergencies and also a programme of rehearsing possible accidents (chemical or nuclear release) that involve the companies themselves, along with the emergency services, public health, regulators etc.

HTH

It's not been in the cat! Don't worry op. Whack it in dishwasher. We had designated dog spoon for about a week. It's gone missing.... So now we use any spoon. Gross isn't it?

ooh, thankyou for coming back.

What is a Buncefield fire?
How many can the emergency mortuary cater for?
Are their lots of them?
How often do you have to rehearse?
When there was that Japenese nuclear incident, and nuclear fallout started reaching America, what did you, or others like you have to do?

Dont want you to out yourself or bombard you with questions.
Thank you.

Dunno what the problem is, it's just meat. Personally I don't eat animal products, but I don't find cat food any more gross than any other sort of meat. I admit that when OH lived with his last lot of roommates I wasn't delighted that meat and non-meat things went in the dishwasher together, but then I figured that the more disgusting I found something the better it was that the relevant dishes got pressure-washed and rinsed at a high temperature.

For the person who was wondering why some people rinse stuff first - in my case it's because the washer only goes on every two or sometimes three days, so if plates weren't rinsed the stuff would get dried on. I do however keep some standing water in the sink for this purpose, so it's not as much of an environmental nightmare as it could be...

amillionyears:

Buncefield

Not sure about the mortuaries, I think there are lots around the country, for when existing services cannot cope, perhaps hundreds of people being killed in a small area.

Several rehearsals take place each year, for different hazards. I have an involvement every 2/3 years. But it is a smaller part of my job. We have a whole emergency response dept, who are solely occupied with preparing for emergencies.

Chemical and radiological releases are monitored via CHEMNET and RIMNET.

link

RIMNET picked up a small amount of contamination from Fukushima, but not enough to worry about. We didn't do much for that incident as it didn't reallly effect the UK, but we did have to 'standby'. If something like that happened closer to home it would be a very big deal.

Thanks for those answers.
Will go and read the links.

Nice to know these preparations are in place.

Am wondering what the emergency response dept does when there is no current emergency?
Are you involved in any sort of war preparations, attacks, or civil unrest?
And what sort of biological things do you prepare for?

I think that ends my personal list of questions.

But do you have the password for the underground bunker and can you get us on the list gambas ?

Is it possible that the zombie plan is v v high level?

Why do people use forks to get cat/dogfood out of tins/pouches anyway?

Use a knife instead and then you can simply scrape all the excess on the side of the cats/dogs' bowls. Can't understand why lumps of petfood should be left on culterly.

I don't have any special knives for doing this with as it goes and I just wash them up along with all the other cutlery, either by hand or stick them in the diswasher if I'm putting it on.

Been doing this all of my life (more years than I care to mention) and haven't grown two heads, lost the power of speech or mutated into a zombie yet.

I really can't help thinking that some people don't have much of note to worry about.