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?!

But what is bothering you about this?

What's that got to do with washing up a dog bowl with other crockery?

I think dogs are generally disgusting and I wouldn’t have them in my house, but if I did then I don’t see the issue with washing their stuff with mine. It’s seems weird to have a dog and then take issue with its bowl.

What's the problem? Either the water, soap and sponge aren't doing a good enough job to clean the dog bowl if it's in with other washing (in which case surely even without the dog bowl you're saying your own dishes aren't being washed properly either) or everything's coming out perfectly clean and there's no issue.

More bacteria than a loo seat

Have you got OCD or some kind of germ phobia, OP?

It’s disgusting

Not quite so! Although pet food is initially required to be fit for human consumption in the UK (not in the USA), it does not have to be kept to the same standards before sale.

Aside from this the dog has been licking the bowel, probably as well as licking its bum, and that bowel is being washed with human’s stuff.

I bet you was popular in school!

Yuck

I put my cats bowl in the dishwasher after it's been soaked in soapy water and rinsed. I wouldn't put the dogs bowl in the dishwasher though. The dog is technically my husband's and he's nice but I do find dogs kind of gross compared to cats.

My dogs food is actually human grade. It's literally meat, potatoes, grains like quinoa and veg and herbs. It smells nicer than my own cooking!!

We keep cans as back up, but generally ours eats a good real-food diet. So it depends....

I rinse the bowl to get the residue out. Then wash as normal in dishwasher.

Lick arse. Lick bowl. Rub that with a sponge. Then rub that on a drinking glass.

No thanks.

@TheShellBeach surprisingly, no! X

Peak Mumsnet craziness on here

Quite.

Bet you weren’t with grammar like that.

🤮🤮🤮 people who do this are disgusting 🤢

Hi dil, hope you’re all ok! We had steak and kidney pie yesterday which Fido loved licking after and we’re having roast lamb today but Fido doesn’t like mint sauce as you know.

anyway hope that son of mine is looking after you ok. Hope to see you on Xmas day and tell the kids if they play up the elf on the shelf will be reporting back to Father Christmas

love MIL and Fido xxxxx

Because the dog sits at the dinner table with the rest of the family for meal times?

Wow. People really seem to have lost sight of the fact that using hot water and detergent, you know, cleans things. I assume the same people are weird about washable period pants too. You are literally washing stuff and then it's clean. The sponge itself is also being cleaned by the detergent while you use it! Sponges and cloths are only germy if you don't wash and rinse them well as part of their usage.

Saw a greyhound sitting on a chair in a high street coffee chain drinking babychino out of a saucer (saucer from the teacup set from the store not a dog bowl as some chains provide).

The people happy to spread cat/dog shit on their crockery or the people who prefer to keep things separate?

Yep

I'm genuinely shocked at some of the replies I've read about levels of hygiene. But of course, each to their own!

For reference, I was raised by Irish parents.. say no more! 😅