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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Shiiiet, I reuse dirty dishes sometimes. It’s just a bit dried out spaghetti on there, I’ll just heap on some leftovers and save myself doing one less dish.
Yes I am an animal.
wtf
like. we don’t have multiple bowls but we clean them between feeding and like once a day for the water.
I have bunnies, so their hay is in a wooden box with holes to eat. I replace their water dish daily because hay gets in it and it gets gross.
Always
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.
We use small plates from our dinner china to feed our pets and wash them every time they’re fed
My pets lick their buttholes.
Humans lick each others buttholes.
If you’re lucky.
Yea but when I see an unfamiliar guy on the street I don’t walk around behind him and sneak in a long sniff
Maybe you should.
Theres already one serial butt sniffer out there we don’t need more.
You could buy Meta glasses.
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.
Dogs eat shit and barf and dead things. They are the RFK Jr. of the pet world.
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.
Yeah, man. The cats bowl is cleaned for every meal. I wouldn’t eat off of yesterday’s food remnants so why should she?
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
I mean, she would also eat a 3 day old rotting dead bird. Would you?
Hmm, I use the same plate multiple days in a row as long as the food was fairly dry.
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?
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.
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)
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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 glues 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).
For the wet food, yes. And it just so happens that it’s not a bowl either: My cats happen to eat from these fancy desert plates we have but never use:
They’re low enough for them to easily access the food, they’re perfectly sized for the amount they eat, and they clean up nicely in the dishwasher at the end of the day.
The dry food bowl, on the other hand, is a basic metal bowl. They clean it well themselves.
Are you sure you don’t live in a cat food ad?
I do not, but I did pull that picture off an ad for the exact type of plates my cats eat from
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.
We feed dry and wet, the wet bowls get rinsed out/cleaned twice a day and the dry supplemental food about once a week. The water fountain gets it every two weeks when the filter is replaced.
