To think this is a bit gross?

[SunnyGirl12]

Visited friend today, and had lunch. While there she fed her cats and I noticed their bowls were identical in pattern to the plates we had used, and after she loads our plates with their bowls in the dishwasher. When I exclaimed that it was gross to mix them she told me the cats used bowls from the family set and the whole lot got put together but it's ok because she uses a hot wash on the dishwasher. I am vegetarian, and while I know when I eat out the plate I use has had meat on it at some point no doubt, this has made me totally heave and I think cat food and a cat eating from the same crockery as everyone else is just gross! I assume not dangerous, but maybe?
Won't be going there for lunch again 🤢🤮

My dog has his own metal bowls and they go in the dishwasher with mine, they're too hot to touch immediately when they cycle has finished it's 2.5hr, 70 degrees wash cycle so I'm not concerned about it not being hygienic enough. I'm vegetarian too.

I'm more concerned about door handles as a PP mentioned, utterly grim.

The dishwasher practically boils the dishes - what are you worried about exactly?

Totally agree with this. Can’t see the problem frankly.

My cat has her own bowls. I love my cat but she licks her bum and eats bugs. Its a bit grim and rude to feed guests using plates etc that are used by the cat.

Well @crazyasafox I did my own three second google search...

www.google.com/search?q=washing%20cat%20dishes%20with%20human%20dishes

'To prevent any potential sickness spreading around your home, NSF recommends washing food and water bowls daily, either in a dishwasher or with soap and hot water.'

Seems we can all google peoples opinions on this can't we?

See, as I thought, no matter what evidence is presented to demonstrate/prove that mixing pet and human plates is a bad idea, some people are so obtuse and obnoxious and stubborn, that they will still do it anyway. ('Oh but that info is from an AMERICAN site!')

So what?! Do you think an American gun or an American knife would still not harm anyone because they are American and not British??!!!

Jesus wept......... How do you people get through life, seriously!!!!

Nevertheless, if you want to mix your pet bowls with your human bowls, then crack on .. I really do not give a flying fuck; I seriously don't...........

Go clean their arseholes with your tongue if you want. Fucked if I care.

Absolutely disgusting. I love my cats but anything to do with their food goes nowhere near human food. Their bowls get washed in the utility room not the kitchen sink. I'd be making excuses to not eat there again.

Re 'clean' sink... that's the place you wash the dirt into. You don't touch it. Just put your hand under the water.

Yes, our pets lick themselves, we pet them and we wash our hands after stroking animals.
Dishwashers work on 40-50-60C, they don't actually boil any germs off.
(And I'm also sure dw instructions say not to put wooden items into it. I handwash my chopping boards and wooden spoons.£

I once saw someone putting a toilet brush in the dishwasher 😱

I remove the racks from my dishwasher and put the kitchen bin in on its own to clean it is that gross?

as I thought, no matter what evidence is presented to demonstrate/prove that mixing pet and human plates is a bad idea, some people are so obtuse and obnoxious and stubborn, that they will still do it anyway

You can find all kinds of shite on the internet.

Given the temperatures involved, I have no concerns.

M0reGinPlease

Sorry love, but all your link does is direct me to articles that back up what I am saying - that mixing pet dishes and human dishes is a bad idea........ !!! Ooooooooops!

The dish washer would be so hot it would kill any germs

@crazyasafox but it wasn't evidence it was someone's opinion! And my opinion is it's fine, thanks very much. Do what you wish with your own pet food bowls but I think comparing it to knife crime or gun violence is taking it slightly too seriously.

I'm not your love thanks very much @crazyasafox.

Wouldn't bother me as long as the plates were scraped, and I'm a vegetarian
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No, yanbu. It's fucking grim and unnecessary. Surely somewhere in their house they have a pet bowl, or an old bowl that doesn't match which can become the "cats bowl" and doesn't get mixed up with the human stuff!? How can you eat your dinner (and enjoy it) off a plate knowing there could have been chunks of pet food on it earlier 🤮. We have 3 cats and 3 dogs, all have their own bowls, and are all washed in the sink with boiling water, not in the dishwasher with the human stuff. I saw one of my cats eating a mouse in the garden the other day, and one of the dogs eating another dogs SHIT... Like hell am I going to share crockery with them! Animals can be gross, and as much as I love my pets, I'm never going to let them lick my face, or eat off my plate, when I've seen what they get up to.

Pet food standards in the UK are much higher than in America.

Pet food in the UK and the EU must also use ingredients fit for human consumption. This is not the case in America.

So yes, American advice is for the American market, where the regulations around the hat goes into pet food are far less strict than they are here.

But anyway, if you share your home with an animal you are bound to get its spit, hair and other mess on you at some point. Personally it doesn't bother me if my pets lick the plate after I've finished. Just like it doesn't bother me to use cups and plates in restaurants that could have been licked clean or sneezed upon by the previous diner!

I guess if you’re a dirty person who doesn’t clean things properly it is gross, just as using a fork that a human had licked without being cleaned properly. But if an item has been cleaned properly people need to get a grip.

Our Dogs have their own bowls...that then go in the dishwasher.
They also lick our plates clean before the dishwasher too.
Most of my friends are the same, lol.
Best not visit animal lovers really.

@crazyasafox - well done on missing the point completely.

And going off on a rather peculiar tangent.

I think your username rather understates reality.

DD's number one 2 year old DS has been known to cop a mouthfull out of the cats food bowl unnoticed from time to time, thus far he seems to have survived it!, the cat however is shit scared of him and runs a mile when he's here!

DS isn't however vegan as yet;!

China cat bowls go in the dishwasher along with everything else and is done at 70. Everything comes out sparkling.

Haven't RTFT (would normally, but in this instance doens't eally seem necessary - you're either in one camp or the other!)

But @AguerosAngel we are the same (right down to the number of cats). They all have their own bowls - not because of human hygiene, but because we need to know none of then are over-eating. But all the cat bowls go in the dishwasher on the eco setting with our stuff, and have done for the last 9 years we have had cats.

All crockery (human and feline) is rinsed before it goes in the dishwasher - there are not 'bits' left on anything)

No one - no one single person - has been ill as a result.

I should add that we also have vegetarians in the house, and they haven't objected either (not sure why they would, to be honest - the dishwasher washes much hotter than I could in the bowl with washing up liquid, even at the eco setting).

Why wouldn't you eat off of plates that have been in a dishwasher? Even on the eco setting of a modern dishwasher it's fine - pets, or not pets.

I really do worry about the people today. My grandparents were butchers, and owned horses. Very rarely did they wash up using even hot water, let alone washing up liquid! And yet they lived into their 90s, and we never came to any harm as their grandchildren.

The 'danger' of germs is really over-stated these days, imho.

I'm not even sure what the issue is tbh

Our cats have their own bowls and i wash them with a separate sponge to the what i use for human washing up but they get on the table and finish left overs from our plates occassionally Sometimes they are given scraps on a human plate but I wouldn't ever eat from a cat bowl or eat any food they might have got to first.