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?!

OP please tell us why your dog's bowl doesn't enter your kitchen.

What do you think is going to happen?

Completely gross. Dog bowls are so slimy from the spit, especially water dishes.

🎶 You can't eat at everybody house 🎶

Out of interest OP how are we supposed to wash our dog bowls if they’re not to enter the kitchen?

Ahh genuinely I'd be so tickled if you were really my MIL, I don't think she's on MN! In spite of her dog-loviness I do love her she's fab.

PIL's dogs don't have mint sauce AFAIK but their treat of choice is frozen chunks of cookie dough so Fido might like that! Thanks for taking my joke in good humour x

OK? So? People do things differently?

You know that it doesn't, right?

Washing up water isn't hot enough to destroy eg salmonella. And using the same sponge is gross.

OP is being totally sane but this is mumsnet where people compete in their race to the bottom of the hygiene competition.

I guess op has a utility room with a sink...! Living the dream

What have Irish parents got to do with it? Genuine question.

@Lifeinlists OP is being totally sane but this is mumsnet where people compete in their race to the bottom of the hygiene competition.

I see it differently. I think on here people are desperate to prove how incredibly mad hygienic they are.

The rest of us are clearly slumming it!

This is illogical. Certainly not based on any knowledge of microbes. What do you fear you will catch?

All washing up goes in dishwasher, if it has pet bowls, it's the hottest setting. Much hotter than I could hand wash.

Possibly not this case but the traveller Irish community are exceptionally clean.

I have cats, I wash their bowls at the very end then change the sponge once done.

That's gross.

It is gross. A dog has licked that bowl after licking its arse and genitals, and sniffing the arses of other dogs and other dogs' pee up lampposts. Jeez!

I put my cat’s bowls in the dishwasher on a 65C programme but no way would I use the same washing up sponge.

Yep, me too. Don’t really get a choice….

Also happy to let dog’s bowl go in dishwasher….but then she eats Lily’s Kitchen so it must be ok 😊

At the cat rescue where I volunteer all cat bowls are washed by hand in hot soapy water, rinsed then completely submerged in animal disinfectant and left for five minutes to kill bacteria before being rinsed again and air dried. so perhaps washing them up with human plates is not a great idea.

@usernother

Obviously can't speak for everyone, but generally speaking, Irish and Caribbean parents (a lot of my friends parents) have strict rules in terms of hygiene (personal and in the home)

I don’t eat at anyone’s house who has a dog. I like hygiene!

I do this, it's all rinsed after and clean.

But I smooch my dog so I may be biased.

YANBU - when I had a dog, her bowl was washed separately, sometimes soaked in boiling hot water but not in the washing up bowl, in the sink itself.

Mind you, I’m pretty easily grossed out by things like this. I take my own cutlery to work as I’ve seen how unhygienic some people can be when washing up! Cups just swilled under a hot tap and using their hands instead of a sponge! Gross! 🤮 so to be fare the dog bowl was probably cleaner than our work’s cups!

Please explain the reference to Irish parents, I'm curious as to how it has anything to do with the subject?

@Mudflaps please see my last response!

I use a separate sponge for the pet bowls and would never put them together with human bowls if washing up. But I do chuck the dogs water bowl in the dishwasher but that's getting the 70 degree water treatment! Washing up sponges are minging enough without keeping the human and pet ones separate. I bet she doesn't replace that sponge every week either.