Extremely trivial AIBU

[Tabby1963]

Ok, so whenever I feed the cats (95% of the time) I rinse cat spoon under the tap straight after. When DH feeds the cats he leaves the dirty spoon in empty can all day and would use this spoon again for the next meal.

This morning he feeds cats and sure enough I've just got back home and the dirty spoon is in can, by now all dried on and caked with cat food.

So I have put spoon in water in washing up bowl to soak (no other utensils in bowl) and DH has gone potty because I am using a bowl for 'humans use items' for a cat spoon. I've tried to explain that if the spoon is rinsed straight after using it would not be an issue. I personally don't see the problem here .

However, I am prepared to accept that I am being unreasonable to soak a cat spoon caked in cat food using a washing up bowl for humans use if the majority of MNers agree with DH .

As you can see it is an extremely trivial AIBU (probably the most trivial of this year, if not decade).

Sorry, not getting the problem at all.

Cats lick their arses then lick you. They tread in their own shit in a vain attempt to bury it and then come in the house and sit on your furniture and your lap. They cough up grass on the carpet, they sometimes scoot their wormy bums across the floor.

What is the problem with putting cat crockery in a dishwasher next to human crockery and then washing it at high temperature?

Ps i live cats

Love, even

Yanbu, but I admit to feeling icky when I see dp/mil using the tea towel to dry the dogs bowls. No logical reason, just e wwwww

Tabby do you have 4 cats, each with it's own spoon?

I use my bare hands to put the food in the bowl. No forking required.

(Dry cat food).

Pouches, they're the future

Although....if I find one more infuriatingly empty pouch box sitting there looking all full and whatnot because someone has put the empty pouches back in the ruddy box instead of in the bin, I will chop DP up and fill up said empty pouches with his remains.

It would annoy me if someone left the spoon to get all crusty, it's just laziness.

As far as separating cat and human stuff goes, I rather gave up on being too fussy after I caught one of my cats drinking out of my glass of water on my bedside table. Eventually found out that they both did it and had probably been doing it for years.

I'm still alive.

We only just got a cat spoon (free with cat food!) and had been using human cutlery previously. If the cat's bowl is dirty, my DP puts his food on a human side plate as they cat apparently doesn't like eating from a dirty bowl. He never thinks to actually wash the bowl?!
What you did is fine, the cat doesn't actually use the spoon! And your DP should just rinse the spoon :)

No separate spoon s here. No separate washing. Whole lot goes in the dishwasher.(i. Even put bin lids in with human stuff - it gets heated and cleaned fgs)

Ours is dog not cat.

I have had to tell ds about leaving tins out with cutlery in as it has ended up fly blown. YANBU.

Mutton, I have 2 cats but bought a pack of four coloured spoons for catfood (plus four coloured plates but down to one now because foxes pinched the others from the garden over the years).

I can see that this thread has been cathartic for some MNers ; that's it, get it all out, confess all .

Bob, yes I sometimes use pouches and yes, they are easy and non-messy but more expensive per 100g than a tin. Also I have noticed that some pouches that seem better value are only 185g each rather than 100g! That is short changing my boys and sharp practice.

The cats don't eat off the spoon, do they?

Anyway, I wash dog bowls in the dishwasher with human bowls, and none of us are dead yet.

once put the poop scoop for the cat litter tray in the dishwasher and was chided for that

Chided?!?

I'm not exactly known for my high standards of cleanliness (read:lazy mare) but even I would hit the roof and then probably vomit over my shoes if dh put something covered in cat poo in the dishwasher! That's rank!

It wasn't covered in cat poo. And see my post above

i won't do it again. Promise

Everybody knows that cat food is human grade, right? And that a cat lick won't kill you unless you've already got a very dicey immune system? Most pet owners had toxoplasmosis like decades ago with no ill effects?

We never ever (I mean never ever) washed the cats bowls when I was growing up. Hot climate & we didn't even put water out for them (okay, that was ridiculous, no wonder they mostly died of kidney failure at 12-13).

So dirty spoon left for the day wouldn't phase me unless there are lots of flies about. Washed by hand or in the d-washer when convenient to me.

pmsl @ NewtRipley. Just repeat this mantra "It's good for my immune system, It's good for my immune system...."

When I was growing, we put human after-dinner plates on the floor for dogs to lick clean, before washing them.

"growing" = "growing up"

What exactly do the non dish washing cat spoon people think might happen? Cat food isn't poison of anything! Just a bit of meat you wouldn't normally eat (but might in a low quality burger... )

If he has a problem, give him the spoon to clean and let him figure out how to get dry caked mush off it.

My mum has inadvertently eaten cat food before, and she's still here.

In fact, I've just remembered a school talent show from when I was at school (almost 30 years ago) where one chap came on to eat a tin of cat food............

Just what harm will washing a spoon in the dishwasher do? I do agree it's quicker and easier to rinse and put away than leave it to cake up and dry. Leaving it in the bowl to soak will not cause any harm at all.

Oh dear... I think I might win (lose?) here.

We share spoons with the cats. We also share plates. We wash everything together.

In my defence I do rinse the cat things really well (and immediately!) before washing so that there aren't bits of catfood sluicing around the wineglasses or anything. That is my sole concession to cat/human dinnerware boundaries though. Oh and I don't let them use the GOOD china.

Your cats drink out of wine glasses?

Shaska, your cats are being treated like royalty using wineglasses lol looks at own wineglasses speculatively

YANBU. There's no cat saliva on there, only cat food (which is just food). I don't see the issue. And I'm completely with you on how frustrating it is when OH's don't rinse and leave the stuff to get dry and caked on (my bug bear is the masher!).

My mum has inadvertently eaten cat food before, and she's still here.

My younger bro apparently used to always try and eat the cat food when visiting my mum's friend, these days he's quite fit and healthy.

DD has a thing for the dog food...