A while backed I figured that if I like eating from clean dishes my pets would too. So I got some cheap enamel metal bowls and use clean ones for my dog and cat.
Anybody else do this?
ETA: I’m not weird and I’m happy all your pets get clean dishes. It was weird for me growing up.
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We use small plates from our dinner china to feed our pets and wash them every time they’re fed
For the dry food, no, she cleans that pretty good all by herself. I clean the water bowl because she loves to grow things in it.
I used to wash the cats’ water dish every day, and as long they ate all their dry food, those dishes would get done too.
The hounds were super messy, so both dishes at both meals.
The wildlife gets new dishes every morning.
I’m sure they all could handle the grime, but they deserve as good as I can give them.
Somewhat disabled so can’t do as much as I’d like to but they get paper food bowls to keep clean, and their water bowls get rinsed every refill + swapped out and put in the dishwasher about weekly.
I have cats. Their bowls get cleaned once a day. Their water glasses are rinsed out once a day and go through the dishwasher once a week. Yes, I have a special set of glassware that my cats drink from.
Yeah, man. The cats bowl is cleaned for every meal. I wouldn’t eat off of yesterday’s food remnants so why should she?
I mean, she would also eat a 3 day old rotting dead bird. Would you?
Cats can also eat raw meat without much concern for bacteria. Their digestive tract is much smaller than a humans, and it processes much faster, leaving little time for bacteria to infect their gut. That’s why wild animals survive without cooking their food. Humans and cats are too different to compare when it comes to diet
Hmm, I use the same plate multiple days in a row as long as the food was fairly dry.
Yup, I have large dogs and they will actually avoid their water and food bowls if they deem them dirty. They’re more like cats.
My dog loves to eat swamp water but gets the ick if there are traces of his own spit in a fresh bowl of clean water
My pets lick their buttholes.
Humans lick each others buttholes.
Yea but when I see an unfamiliar guy on the street I don’t walk around behind him and sneak in a long sniff
People put their fingers in all kinds of places - door handles, shoelaces, buttcracks, nostrils… and we greet strangers by touching their hands.
Not too far removed from butt sniffing, really.
You could buy Meta glasses.
Maybe you should.
Theres already one serial butt sniffer out there we don’t need more.
If you’re lucky.
Dogs eat shit and barf and dead things. They are the RFK Jr. of the pet world.
Yes. The water and kibble bowl gets swapped out and washed every couple of days, wet food bowl washed daily.
Wet food: cleaned between each feeding. Water bowl: rinsed daily, washed weekly or more often as necessary. Dry food bowl: run through the dishwasher once a week if I remember.
Are you asking if I wash the dishes I use to feed my pets? Of course I do. They’re not gonna do it themselves.
Do you trea their dishes like human dishes, replacing them with every meal? Do you have more than one bowl for them?
for our cat, the foodplate gets replaced every meal, the water bowl once per day (every other meal, usually dinner)
our dog’s bowls get swapped out (we have multiple sets) after every meal and round out the dishwasher load mostly (not out of gunk buildup per se)
Yes, and yes. I have a whole stack of bowls for them. I mean, I use them for other things, too. They’re not JUST for the cats.
Some of my pets will shit in their bowls, I don’t think they are at all concerned with the cleanliness of their tableware.
…like dogs don’t eat shit and dead animals in the park.
Right? Animals lick their buttholes, they aren’t concerned about the cleanliness of a bowl.
Yep! We use plastic kid plates and bowls for him. They go straight into the dishwasher.
We also use paper plates for his wet food sometimes because that stuff goes itself to the plates and sometimes we just don’t have the bandwidth to clean his plates properly (like after a surgery or during an illness).
Yes, I took pathology courses for my degree.
Anyone that doesn’t clean them at least once a day is somewhere on the stupid<->abusive spectrum.
Why is it they can eat raw meat but a bowl that sits for a couple days is dangerous?
Do you often leave the raw meat you feed them out for days while covered in bacterial slobber?
I don’t feed my animals raw meat. I am saying cats, and all wild carnivores, eat raw meat. Sometimes animals that have been dead and scavenged already.
Regardless, humans do not eat hardly any raw meat for much too high a risk of disease. I am saying that animals have different digestive tracts, so if they’re okay to eat raw meat, and drink water from anywhere they can find it in the wild, they’d be okay with a water bowl that has had water in it for a few days.
It’s absurd to say someone is either stupid or abusive for not cleaning a water bowl daily
I see you’re on the stupid end of the spectrum.
Our old girl Chloe (18 - I call her Kitty Bear) is blind now (poor little thing), and spends most of her day on her bed on the couch next to my wife. We feed her on a small plate of food that we bring to her bed, and her dishes get washed after every use. When she is thirsty, she gently puts a paw on my wife’s arm, and my wife holds a cup of water to her mouth.
Nothing is too good for our sweet girl. She’s the last one standing of a beautiful cat family that lived with us all these years. It started when a big steady tomcat we named Jake befriended my son, moved in, decided we were acceptable, and then went and got his beautiful Siamese girlfriend Maggie (I called her Mama Bear), and their three kittens. No humans were consulted in these decisions.
Chloe (I call her Kitty Bear) is the last one. We wash her food and water dishes every day.
This is so sweet. You are good humans, I can see why you were picked.
We always felt privileged to have such a wonderful cat family to watch grow. They were more entertaining than cable tv.
