do you rewash laundry if cat lies on it?

[Simonandrod]

I have a "helpful" teen who keeps getting washing out of tumble dryer (of course only when there's something in there she wants!). She takes hers and leaves the rest in the laundry basket, which the cat then colonises. (If I do it I put it away immediately as know she has a fondness for clean clothes!).
Anyway, despite telling teen over and over again what happens, she keeps doing it and cat keeps going on clean laundry and I keep re washing it.
But do I really need to? Very tempted to just put it away. She doesn't shed too badly, so it's not covered in hair.
AIBU to put away laundry and not re wash it?

Of course not! Give it a good shake and put it away.

No, unless it’s obviously dirty.

I wouldn’t rewash it but then I sleep with my cheek on the cat’s backside so we’re fairly integrated.

Isn't that effectively the same as washing it every time the cat sat on your lap? Which I assume you don't do...

Why on earth would you? Do you get changed and wash your outfit every time she sits on you?

YANBU. Even if the cat shed enough to build a whole new cat, just lint roll it and put it away.

Not unless she’s actually thrown up on it.

If you touched the cat would you take off your clothes and wash them? If not, why are you doing this?

Of course not. What a ridiculous waste of time, energy and water.

No I wouldn't rewash. That is mad to do

Only if there are muddy paw prints. A little bit of cat fur is neither here nor there.

If I washed every thing my cat sat on, which he does every time I move anything in the house at all, I'd never get out of the laundry room.

Why on earth would you rewash it?

My cat sleeps on a shelf in my wardrobe, I'd never get to wear anything if I had to rewash it all the time.

Never even occurred to me to wash something the cat lies on

I'd only wash if the cat had got muddy paws on it. My cat has a habit of rolling in from a night on the tiles covered in sticks and leaves, and lies on fresh bedding which irks me but I have started putting throws on the beds now.

Wouldn't think to wash clothes he had merely touched.

You'll have cat hair on all your clothes. I know I do. Unless the cat is massively shedding or leaving muddy prints behind then no need to rewash

Put your DD's away, but wash your own (if it bothers you)

I have white cats so anything they so much as glide past ends up covered in white fur.

My main question is WHY your DD is not understanding she needs to put all the washing away? What is going on there?

I wash and dry everything inside out so any hairs would be on the inside! But if it was very hairy I'd put it back in the dryer on low for 10 minutes to catch the hairs.

Your energy and water bills will be very grateful if you don't rewash clean clothes.

Ah, so not just my cat that likes to barf on a stack of clean washing then?

@Overtheatlantic 🤢 That's a dangerous game you're playing. Cat farts are the worst

Isn't the cat living at home? What difference does it make if the cat comes in the laundry basket or in the room?

She’s never actually done that, to be fair. But it’s the only time I would feel the need to rewash something.

And YABVU to be repeatedly tumble drying them too.

Depends on the cat. Mr Tiddles likes wading through mud, it'd be filthy if he'd been on it. Miss Tiddles is a princess, she doesn't leave dirt behind.