to hope I am not tarred as someone...

[Alchemist]

who laughs at animals in slight distress but DDog just licked my plate.

I had had a lovely meal of spaghetti, olive oil, spinach, basil and tomatoes, seasoned with a bit of salt, pepper and chilli flakes.

DDog is now rolling around the rug making WTF? noises and being very amusing to me.

AIBU to laugh? Also to be a slattern? bowl left on floor.

When I was 18 I was invited to my co-worker's house for dinner.
She served me 1/2 a Fray Bentos mince pie, mash and tinned tomatoes

When we had finished she scraped the remnants onto one plate and put it on the floor for her dog to finish off, and carried on gossiping.

I couldn't eat there again.

Because dogs lick their butts and other dogs butts.
Nobody licks my plate not even me! Wtf

*Ugly', have you ever owned a dog? They're not the most unhygienic animals in the world - mine certainly does not 'lick their butts and other dogs butts'. Toddlers are capable of worse than pets in terms of gross behaviour...

My dog licks our plates sometimes, after we're done eating. Then we wash them. The temperature in our dishwasher usually gets up to 170* F, so they're fairly sanitized after that.

Ha! Daft dog! Our 10m old staffy has a particular liking for fromage Frais and custard creams. She will hunt down follow anyone with a custard cream and sit there with her paw up until she gets a bit. My toddlers go to her when they have yogurt on their hands so she can lick it off.. they think it's hilarious.

Mine like to steal the lemons off the tree and eat them. Silly buggers still haven't realised it makes them look like they've, well, sucked on a lemon. Retrievers with pursed lips, looking at me like I've betrayed them. Stop stealing the bloody things you idiots.

My cat decided to help herself from a the remains of a bowl of prawn stir fry which was on the kitchen table waiting for its turn to be washed up. She did not expect to find a chilli prawn. I'd never seen the poor thing drink so much.

Retrievers with pursed lips, looking at me like I've betrayed them.

Reminds me of the time we had chilli burgers and they were VILE!
I left most of mine on the side in the hunt for something edible. Cat jumps up and thinks 'mmmm beef!' She ate it, did a funny head shake and spat it out. Mad cat kept trying to go back to it until I tipped it in the bin.
Dh, being something of a slattern, puts his plate on the floor and wanders off. He'd finished the burger, but his plate was covered in chili oil from it. Cat smells it, licks plate...
Cat did not like it. It was funny and tragic at the same time.
I gave the cat some milk.
I'm not feeling to hospitable to my cat today, she ate my sausage roll.

I'd laugh, too.

As an animal crazy vegetarian... I would have laughed, sounds really cute. One of my (six) cats will try any food, he jumped onto the kitchen side and ate some very spicy pasta I had left - because it was too spicy. As I walked into the kitchen we made eye ccontact, he glared at me, sneezed about ten times and leapt into the sink! Still eats whatever he can get though. No way would I throw away a dish an animal had licked, I have to eat from other people's dishes that have had meat on them, but hopefully most people wash dishes properly