Pet bowls in dishwasher

[eco1636]

do you put cat food/water bowls in the d/w?

We have a sensor cycle, which is most economic, also a hygiene cycle, which is super hot - think practically boiling. Loathe to use that one all the time. What do you do?

@Whatsthisbear

Is your dishwasher faulty, dear? Does it not wash at a high heat properly?

Mine are washed by hand in the utility room sink, never the kitchen one, and they absolutely do not go in the dishwasher. It wouldn't enter my head to do so.

Ours do. And I use the same forks as we do to serve their food.

We're still alive.

Ours do. Go on the same, normal wash as the baby's weaning spoons and bowls.

We are all still alive.

Do you put the chopping board that you chopped your raw chicken on in? If so then YABU

Google toxoplasma

No, I wash them by hand and generally they go straight back down again. We don’t always fill up the dishwasher every day and our cats aren’t patient enough to wait!

Er, yeah I put everything in there. Chopping boards, cat bowls, plates.

Yep. Cat bowls fit nicely between the rows of plates. :)

I would, bottom shelf and hot cycle. To be honest I have put (dettoled out) pottys and bin lids in the dishwasher so cat bowls would be nothing in this house.

Eh? I don’t have a dishwasher and wash the dog bowls last with the same sponge, dry them with the same towel and we seem ok. Don’t dishwashers practically sterilize?

Yes, if the dishwasher can be trusted to clean the germs left behind when we cut up raw chicken, then it seems good enough to clean the icky dog germs.

Honestly, I figure if we're going to get germs from our dogs, it's more likely to happen in some other way than because a dog's dish rubbed shoulders with a plate or cutting board.

I've washed our cat dishes in the dishwasher for years... why would it be any worse than a chopping board that's had raw meat on it?
For that matter I have also bunged them in the washing up bowl with dishes too and I'm still here...

Japonicaisstillahorsygirl its from infected cat faeces. You're more likely to pick it up cleaning the litter tray IF your cat is infected. If you have cats you're also very likely to be immune.

I rinse under the tap then into the dishwasher. There are far more manky things I come into contact with than a pet food bowl!

No way . Need to be washed separately .

But why??? @Pringlemunchers

Toxoplasmosis isn't dangerous unless you're pregnant.

Have you felt the slimey bowl when wet .

@Japonicaisstillahorsygirl Toxoplasmosis is easily killed by heat, never mind hot water and detergent. Calm the fuck down.

But then it gets washed by the dishwasher!!

Surely washing them in the dishwasher is more hygienic than the sink anyway.

The dishwasher gets things clean. They all get washed together, and when they come out they are all clean together. It's not like the dishwasher gets all the human plates clean, but then somehow smears invisible cat lick all over them . Even if tiny particles of cat food somehow got onto the plates while they were being washed, they would end up being washed off anyway by the end of the cycle.

Honestly, I think you are all blinkered the way dishwashers work.

how weird I am a complete a slattern yet the thought turns my stomach
just wash them in the outside tap.

I'm not overly mad on hygiene but home d/washers are not some magical germ killing device ( check your temps and Google it !).

My cat bowls go in the normal dishwasher cycle but after being rinsed so there is no trace off yuk yuk stinky food in them.