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Original poster

Aibu to put dog dishes in dishwasher

78 replies

Butterflyfox · 20/03/2021 20:38

This is my first post so I hope I’ve put it in the right place. So. Like everyone else, I have got a lockdown puppy. Am a first time dog owner and have been super lucky as it’s been just great, especially for the children. However am not a mad doggy person and would never let it lick my face or whatever. But I find myself putting dog’s empty plate in dishwasher at night with the human plates. Dog has separate dish - does not eat off human plates and is obviously wormed and flead etc. Genuine question - Is this normal (reasonable) or totally (unreasonable) gross? I fear lockdown has robbed me of normal social skills and this may be the first step to totally savagery .

OP posts:
SchrodingersImmigrant · 20/03/2021 20:39

😂😂😂 good luck

MirandaWest · 20/03/2021 20:40

We put our cat’s bowls in the dishwasher Smile

MsVestibule · 20/03/2021 20:40

Well I do, but our also dog licks the plates before the dishwasher goes on, which a lot of people think is absolutely rank, so I might not be the best person to take advice from.

DinosaurDiana · 20/03/2021 20:41

I do.

BMW6 · 20/03/2021 20:41

Why not? A hot wash kills any germs, and dog food is just that - food.

MsVestibule · 20/03/2021 20:41

I do draw the line at putting the loo seat in, though.

Janus · 20/03/2021 20:41

Absolutely fine, dishwashers get up to something like 90 degrees. Otherwise you will be cleaning it with a kitchen sponge or similar and rinse and then clean work surfaces with! I put our dogs’ dishes in today, I do it about once a week and rinse with hot water at other times.

DinosaurDiana · 20/03/2021 20:42

Do you need to flea treat your dog ?
Mine has never had fleas so I don’t.

Happytentoes · 20/03/2021 20:44

Hot wash? It will be fine.
But if it worries you, give them a separate cycle. Just wash them at some point each day. I tend to wash them by hand on their own, but that’s about space in the dishwasher and 2 large dogs.

NannyR · 20/03/2021 20:45

I wouldn't have a problem with it, I reckon the temperature inside the dishwasher would kill any bugs, but it's very much frowned on as being unhygenic, on mumsnet.

BeardieWeirdie · 20/03/2021 20:47

YANBU to put dog bowls in the dishwasher.

Nothing wrong with the odd face lick either! I encourage my dog to jump up and do it in the morning to my husband when he’s sleeping instead of making me tea 😄

Original poster
Butterflyfox · 20/03/2021 20:47

Thankyou all for taking the time to reply. I shall continue then. This Mumsnet thing is magic. I know I’m rather late to the party but I think I could get addicted. ms vestibule your dishwasher must be larger than mine as the loo seat would never fit in ours. Or maybe we Just have larger bottoms.

OP posts:
XenoBitch · 20/03/2021 20:47

My dog does the prewash of my dishes, and I wash them in the sink.
Dog food, human food... all the damn same to me.

LawnFever · 20/03/2021 20:57

Yeah I do, it’s hot enough to be hygienic - if it wasn’t then nothing would be clean!

I’m sure plenty of people will come along soon who are utterly horrified by the idea but I honestly couldn’t care less, I think it’s fine Smile

1Morewineplease · 20/03/2021 21:02

Hand washing your dog's bowls is less hygienic than using a dishwasher.

Champagneforeveryone · 20/03/2021 21:02

It's weird people would care isn't it? DM (who used to keep a separate washing up brush for our cats bowls when I was a child) is utterly scandalised by this and I can't for the life of me see why

XenoBitch · 20/03/2021 21:03

@1Morewineplease

Hand washing your dog's bowls is less hygienic than using a dishwasher.
Happy for someone to buy me a dishwasher.
lalaloopyhead · 20/03/2021 21:07

We put the cats wet food dishes I'm the dishwasher.. hadn't ever considered that this might be no no....

FFSAllTheGoodOnesArereadyTaken · 20/03/2021 21:11

Unless your dishwasher goes on after every meal, you have the potential for a few days rotting fish or chicken germs to be on the plates in your dishwasher before its put on. I'd rather have dog lick than that. And if it's hot enough to stabilise anyway, what do you think is the worst that could happen?

IFoundMyselfInThisBar · 20/03/2021 21:11

You should search other threads on this subject OP....it’s a very divisive subject. 🤣

We put our dogs bowls in the dishwasher, the dogs lick our faces at every opportunity anyway.

XenoBitch · 20/03/2021 21:14

@IFoundMyselfInThisBar

You should search other threads on this subject OP....it’s a very divisive subject. 🤣

We put our dogs bowls in the dishwasher, the dogs lick our faces at every opportunity anyway.

It makes me laugh how you see people clutch their pearls in horror at the thought that other people let their dogs lick their plates... yet have most likely had someone else's genitals in their mouth.
Bathsandnaps · 20/03/2021 21:14

Who is voting yabu? Confused

HermioneGrangersHair · 20/03/2021 21:16

@DinosaurDiana

Do you need to flea treat your dog ? Mine has never had fleas so I don’t.
@DinosaurDiana my dog hasn’t either but the vet has always recommended both flea and worming regularly, we have a combination treatment. To answer the OP I wash my dogs bowls on their own, but dishwasher gets hot enough I would think to destroy any germs.
SourMilkGhyll · 20/03/2021 21:17

In the dishwasher here, with a pre-lick if they manage to sneak their noses whilst I'm clearing the table.

MsVestibule · 20/03/2021 21:29

@Butterflyfox

Thankyou all for taking the time to reply. I shall continue then. This Mumsnet thing is magic. I know I’m rather late to the party but I think I could get addicted. ms vestibule your dishwasher must be larger than mine as the loo seat would never fit in ours. Or maybe we Just have larger bottoms.
Seriously OP, just leave now before you become a complete addict. I have wasted about 50 million hours on MN in the last 10 years, when I could have been learning Mandarin or at least had a much cleaner house.

Maybe it's loo brushes, not seats, that some people put in their dishwashers 🤔?