Friend washed up the dog bowl with our dinner plates

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This happened a few months ago but has just came up in conversation IRL.

Went round a friends casually for some dinner. As she put our plates & cutlery in the washing up bowl she also put the dog's dinner bowl in there and washed it up together with the SAME sponge.

I do laugh at this now, but at the time I was like 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳.

AIBU to think is this absolutely disgusting?!

Dishwashers don't clean 100% all the time. Ocassionally you get plates and pans out with bits of food stuck to them.

They probably aren't hot enough to completely sterilise, but do a good enough job for most of the time, because most of the stuff that is put in them does not have that nasty bacteria on it.

Dogs and cats mouths are full of far more nasty bacteria than humans. So if you let them lick their bowls/your plates and stick them in the dishwasher you are risking exposure to probably much worse than you would if you wash up human plates alone.

I'm far more worried about germs from raw chicken, pork and shellfish than about a tin of dog food or some kibble. Tinned dog food is basically sterile through the canning process and kibble is dry so really quite safe from cross contamination in terms of food hygiene.
If you're washing any of the above human foods in your home and consider it safe why worry about dog bowls? The list of zoonotic diseases caught from dogs is really small, you're more likely to catch diseases from mice and birds in your garden.

Our cats frequently lick our finished dinner plates when we aren't looking. And they eat off a dinner plate because it stops them fighting over food access.

I soak the dried bits of gack off their plate in the sink before it goes in the dishwasher with the other dinner plates. If we are going to die of cat lick I think it'll happen anyway.

'Tinned dog food is basically sterile through the canning process and kibble is dry so really quite safe from cross contamination in terms of food hygiene.'

It isn't the food particles that are the issue it is the dog slaver that will be full of bugs as we all know dogs are prone to frequent bum licking. A wipe with a sponge with all the other pots isn't quite good basic hygiene.

@Janiie dog slavers aren't nastier than raw chicken