Is dj ridiculously squeamish or AIBU?

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We broke the cat's bowl recently so DCat has been eating out of one of ds' melamine bowls. Today I bought a new cat bowl so I rinsed ds' bowl and was going to put it in the dishwasher and run the hottest cycle.

DH has had a squeamish meltdown and thinks we should just throw it away. He can't see how it won't still have "cat germs". I even offered to sterilise it in the old steriliser we haven't yet put away [slacker emoticon].

Dh insists I get mn advice. He is convinced you will all agree with him. I, of course, think you are all more rational

So, who IBU?

I can understand why it feels a bit ick to him. I'd disinfect it, then wash it in really hot water, then wash it again, then carry on using it.

60oC in the dishwasher, job done.

How did humans survive this long through natural history if such squeamishness was rational??? Surely such squeamishness is a modern phenonemen since hot running water came into houses.

Would be fine with me, DCat's bowls get put through the dishwasher every night with our stuff.

There is no way on god's green earth the cat has more/worse germs than my kids.

I'd barely have a scrap of china left if I chucked away everything my dog or cats have eaten off or drunk from.

Actually, I think I'd have to throw my house away too if I was that bothered by animal germs

Dishwasher will be fine. All our cat bowls go in with our stuff, if we run out I use a general bowl then just wash it.

It's just cat food which is edible for humans anyway, and cat saliva which is all over them!

I'm on your side op

I doubt we have any dishes that the cat or the dogs have never eaten from

and we haven't got a dishwasher

I'm with you OP. If washing doesn't remove germs, dirt and detritus, then we should be throwing away everything after first use, surely?

If your DH feels your cat is really that diseased and germ-ridden, perhaps you ought to rethink letting it into your home to sit on your furniture, and shed its oft-licked fur all over your furnishings. Likewise, if the food you're feeding it is really that grim, consider feeding it something else!

I know it's irrational but I get upset when DH uses human cutlery to serve the cat food. We have two designated cat food implements and yet he always just takes the nearest spoon/fork out of the drawer

Like some others have already said, I'd have no crockery left if I threw it away everytime my cats used it.

I see this as a bit like sharing toothbrushes with DH. Toothbrush sharing is considered disgusting by many but how is it worse than sharing body fluids in other ways?

Obviously I wouldn't wish to share a toothbrush with my cats but then I have no plans to snog my cats either. But perfectly happy to share clean dishes between humans and pets.

But I am a compost heap so my standards are probably fairly low.

I'd probably throw it but I wouldn't have used it anyway, I have used an old icecream container or something equally binable.

Mind you, I don't have a cat or dog and am quite squeamish about them and their germs!

I wouldn't mind eating out of something the guinea pigs had used!