Would you / how would you clean your washing machine after washing doggy diarrhoea covered bedding in it?

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Dog had diarrhoea. Her bedding is covered and I will be washing it on 90 degrees centigrade.

But urrghh, I am feeling a bit queasy about putting our own things in to wash after using the machine to wash doggy diarrhoea covered stuff. Probably am being completely irrational.

Any suggestions about what special measures I should take to clean the machine afterwards - if any?

i would've hosed down in the garden then washed in washing machine, then a hot wash empty afterwards.

my cleaning cupboard contains a bottle of bleach, harpic limescale loo cleaner, biottle of multipurpose cleaner and same thing i na spray bottle and soda crystals. plus dishwasher/washing machine stuff.

i dont think i have any anti-bac, may have some that came free with a bounty pack (my kids are 7,5 and 2).

we do have bottles of alcohol gel about the place though lol.

I;d run the machine on an empty boil wash with some bicarb of soda in it.

Oh poor you. I would use soda crystals after the bed is finally clean. Actually I confess I would have bought a new bed, though had I washed it I wouldn't have scraped at diarrhoea, only solid stuff.

On a similar note our dog is travel sick and after one particularly long and stressful journey I arrived at my friends and began to sort the numerous towels that we have in the boot with the dog to cope with her sickness. I took the one with the worst amount of lumpy sick down to the bottom of the garden to get rid of it in the field at the bottom and proceeded to give it a HUGE shake. Well the dog vomit peeled off into the air covering my hair and face in a shower of little particles. Yuk yuk yuk! I still don't know what I was thinking of. Never again. Thankfully since the children dh deals with most dog related mess issues. Leaving the children to me lol.

Ah, LadyV, I make an exception re anti-bac etc in the sort of situation you are in, simply because your darling dh has a VERY compromised immune situation.

I'm talking about households where everyone has a generally normal kind of health situation.

Oh god skyler

It was one of those moments where I didn't know whether to laugh or cry and just stood in silence for a few moments before I heard my mate pissing himself and decided hysterics was the way forward. Followed by a LONG hot shower.

Agree with the soda crystals or bleach in an empty machine on a hot cycle after you have finished/given up on the bedding. It takes forever, doesn't it.

Oh and NDP, I have more trouble with cats. One we had peed in our toaster. I watched her in disbelief climb on top to straddle it and then she WEED right in it. What on earth prompted her I will never know? The toaster was binned, though my Mum did think about trying to save it.

No, cats are REALLY weird, much more yukky than dogs (and I thought that before I read Skyler's post)

I too find cats much more unhygienic than dogs, they get on worktops and that is going too far even for me!

Hose it down first in back garden, then bring to the launderette - save your washing machine. If it were me though I would take it in the neck and dump.

Oh Skyler what a nightmare!

All done now. Bedding hanging on line to dry, and machine has had a hot wash with soda crystals in it.

Thanks all

Yay, well done. Crisis over.

Delighted it all worked out for you.