Dig licking plates before going into dishwasher - ick or not

[Happyspendingthedayinthegarden]

Have have hosted a lovely Easter BH Monday for all 7 GC, 3 step children, partners & children. We had an Easter egg hunt in garden, had breakfast in local farm shop & walked my lovely little dog around, petted animals etc.

For context I need to say that DSS & DIL are both British, but live in USA.

After a roast dinner I put the plates & general pots & pans down for the dog to lick. My DIL lost the plot saying that was so unhygienic I assured her that they would be going into the dishwasher on a high temperature - about 90c so would be sterilised. I always let the dog pre-wash my plates as consider it's going into the dishwasher at high temp to be sterilised so no problem.

DIL saying she will never let her children eat at my house again & gone-taken her DH & DC off in an huff.

DH has had a text from his son apologising but saying what can he do as has to support his wife. I totally get that. But....

My question is - is it OK to let dog lick out the plates etc when they are going into dishwasher at a high temp? WWUD?

My dog licks lots of things around the house, in fact everything. But I do wash my hands regularly as I do when I go to the loo, when I am preparing food and just generally as a hygienic person.

I clean my house, I clean up after my dog.

When I am loading the dishwasher, I say to
my dog ‘leave it’ as I do with anything I do not want in his mouth.

When he is out for walks he picks up any number of things. That’s his environment. At home his environment does not involve licking up after I have eaten.

My dog is loved, well trained and well mannered.

I do all of these things too, you've agreed that your dog licks everything, I just think there must be multiple times a day where your hand touches something that your dog has licked, and then you touch your own skin, you can't wash your hands often enough to avoid it.

Not sure why the separate closing statement about your dog being loved and well-mannered, only serving to suggest that others aren't for some reason.

For what it's worth I put leftovers in my dog's bowl. Does that mean my dog has good manners too?

I was not suggesting anything! I made a statement.

I would never suggest anything about you or your dog. I don’t know you!

Right, my thing about not letting my dogs lick my plates is not solely about hygiene. It’s about MY ethics.

Each to their own. We are engaging on SM about topics in life.

I think we agree then that all the dogs are loving life as they don't know that some of their mates are eating straight from the human plates 😉

Its interesting how differently dog owners feel about it, maybe I feel one way because as clean as I try to be I will still find dog hair in my own mouth regularly

Dog hairs in the mouth, me too!

I actually think other than the things dogs do regarding sheep poo, badger poo and any other animal poo, and the carrion that dogs hunt/find -my dog is bred to be a working dog - dogs are quite clean. Non dog owners might not understand this.

But for me it’s a matter of ethics.

Orrrrrrr you could just stop letting the dogs lick the plates? Just a suggestion 😂

As a touch older than you Happy, I’m supporting you. It’s overwhelmingly obvs there’s absolutely no problem from hygiene pov.
Unfortunately (prob due to my age!) I can’t work out which vote to tick to support your point, SOZ!
A reminder here, if a child’s immune system isn’t ‘challenged’, then it won’t b able to work out what &/or when to switch on for, (ie. or react to bad stuff). Hence, the truth in my Yorkshire Gm’s saying “you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die” (origin prob 18th C).
Also, it’s just come to me, all the waste food from scraped plates going down the drains probably causes a further burden on Drinking Water System? So probably far better inside a dog/chicken/cat/robins(they love left over scrambled eggs! ..…you wanted to know that lol!)