i hate sponges. they gross me out. i use bleach water to rinse the sponges every other day. aside from that, all our dishes are washed in hot water and soap, so i’m not worried about any of that. i also kiss my dogs on the lips. Kids with germs are what worry me. not animal germs.
Pets have their own food dishes. Everything goes in the dishwasher, bits, kongs, pet food dishes, etc. I use the same sponge that I use to clean the counters to clean the pet dishes if I’m doing it by hand. Dogs lick out my dishes if they can afford the calories and then they go in the dishwasher.
Thinking back, I have actually been healthier since I started doing this. Maybe there is a connection…
Hardly a day goes by that one of the dogs hasn’t licked inside my mouth or up my nose so no. I was doing my PT exercises lying on the floor with four dog faces in my face. Just when I opened my mouth and yelled back off one of them caught me on the back of my throat! That was too close for comfort even by my standards.
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Hardly a day goes by that one of the dogs hasn’t licked inside my mouth or up my nose so no. I was doing my PT exercises lying on the floor with four dog faces in my face. Just when I opened my mouth and yelled back off one of them caught me on the back of my throat! That was too close for comfort even by my standards.[/QUOTE]
Good girl doing your exercises! 
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We also let our dogs lick out our bowls (especially ice cream bowl) and sometimes we even share an ice cream cone with them (darn dogs want to bite it and take a bigger portion!)… [/QUOTE]
Reminded me of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvExOg4NI0
:lol:
Cats and dog have their own dishes but more for convenience than ick factor. I use plastic srubbies on everything; scrubbies and pet bowls go in the dishwasher along with everything else. I don’t intentionally let pets eat from my plate but that’s to minimize digestive issues (theirs).
I don’t see how pet slobber could make my dishes any more hazardous than the cutting board I used to cut up the chicken.
I had a very old friend who would let the dog lick plates after dinner. If he had guests, just for grins, when the dog had cleaned the plates, he would put them straight back in the cupboard.
I mean, I’ve watched my cat poop and then lick her own butt and somehow I still let her put her face up to my face on a regular basis.
So yes, I wash everything with the same sponge.
One of my dogs is raw fed, so his stainless bowl is washed after each meal with his own dish brush. About once a week, I hand wash his dish and then put it in the dishwasher with human dishes. The other dogs are not raw fed, and their dishes go in the dishwasher with no pre-wash. My dogs are the pre-wash cycle and often give the dishes in the dishwasher a good extra cleaning. Such little helpers!
The cats have their own dishes. I don’t have a dishwasher and the cats eat at different times than I do so their dishes do get washed separately. Nothing in my house gets washed with a sponge because they kind of ick me out. I use a clean dish cloth every day, that then goes into the wash, and do wash all dishes with it.
:lol:
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I mean, I’ve watched my cat poop and then lick her own butt and somehow I still let her put her face up to my face on a regular basis.
So yes, I wash everything with the same sponge.[/QUOTE]
I did brush my teeth with the dog’s toothbrush by accident once.
Paula
Dog and cats have their own bowls but get washed with everything else. My dogs get to lick the knife I spread my peanut butter on toast with. And no, it’s not a sharp knife.
IMO, sponges are more germy than anything you might catch from eating after a pet.
I wash the cat bowls in the kitchen sink, but wipe them out with paper towels instead of the dish rag we use on our dishes. I use our spoons to dole out wet food, and they get washed in the dishwasher with everything else. Occasionally a cat will get to eat a scrap off our plate when we’re finished…NBD.
They’re housecats, not plague infested rodents fresh off the ship.
Our cat and dog have their own food bowls because they’re convenient and cute (cat’s food bowl has a cat silhouette on the bottom…), but we wash them with all the human stuff. My cat actually doesn’t drink out of a cat bowl–he much prefers a short glass. He’s very particular about which style of short glass it is too (god forbid we offer him the straight one with the square waffle pattern!)
Our dog licks plates clean before they go in the dishwasher, and she’ll lick the dirty spoons and butter knives in the dishwasher while we’re loading it. We don’t wash kongs (she doesn’t play with them). We just scrub bits with a wet wash cloth and they’re good to go.
Not too worried about it, I’m almost never sick 
There is a very nasty germ found in almost all cat mouths and a lot of dogs, even done horses called Pasturella multocida that can cause severe problems. Just FYI
There is a very nasty germ found in almost all cat mouths and a lot of dogs, even some horses called Pasturella multocida that can cause severe problems. Just FYI
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Our cat and dog have their own food bowls because they’re convenient and cute (cat’s food bowl has a cat silhouette on the bottom…), but we wash them with all the human stuff. My cat actually doesn’t drink out of a cat bowl–he much prefers a short glass. He’s very particular about which style of short glass it is too (god forbid we offer him the straight one with the square waffle pattern!)
Our dog licks plates clean before they go in the dishwasher, and she’ll lick the dirty spoons and butter knives in the dishwasher while we’re loading it. We don’t wash kongs (she doesn’t play with them). We just scrub bits with a wet wash cloth and they’re good to go.
Not too worried about it, I’m almost never sick :)[/QUOTE]
Ha - my cat also will only drink out of a glass! There’s a perfectly good bowl of water in the kitchen, but she will only use one particular glass. And of course it’s on a coaster - she’s a classy girl! 
I finally figured out that if I gave her her own glass she would stop trying to drink out of mine!
I should clarify my first post I guess. I don’t care about animal germs at all. My cat is perfectly happy to take a crap and then come sit on my lap while she cleans her butt - it doesn’t bother me.
But I am totally skeeved out by wet cat food for some reason. You should see me if I get some on my hands. But poop, pus, festering wounds? Those are all cool with me. :lol:
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Our cat and dog have their own food bowls because they’re convenient and cute (cat’s food bowl has a cat silhouette on the bottom…), but we wash them with all the human stuff. My cat actually doesn’t drink out of a cat bowl–he much prefers a short glass. He’s very particular about which style of short glass it is too (god forbid we offer him the straight one with the square waffle pattern!)
Our dog licks plates clean before they go in the dishwasher, and she’ll lick the dirty spoons and butter knives in the dishwasher while we’re loading it. We don’t wash kongs (she doesn’t play with them). We just scrub bits with a wet wash cloth and they’re good to go.
Not too worried about it, I’m almost never sick :)[/QUOTE]
Ha - my cat also will only drink out of a glass! There’s a perfectly good bowl of water in the kitchen, but she will only use one particular glass. And of course it’s on a coaster - she’s a classy girl! I finally figured out that if I gave her her own glass she would stop trying to drink out of mine!
I should clarify my first post I guess. I don’t care about animal germs at all. My cat is perfectly happy to take a crap and then come sit on my lap while she cleans her butt - it doesn’t bother me.
But I am totally skeeved out by wet cat food for some reason. You should see me if I get some on my hands. But poop, pus, festering wounds? Those are all cool with me. :lol:
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I should clarify my first post I guess. I don’t care about animal germs at all. My cat is perfectly happy to take a crap and then come sit on my lap while she cleans her butt - it doesn’t bother me.
But I am totally skeeved out by wet cat food for some reason. You should see me if I get some on my hands. But poop, pus, festering wounds? Those are all cool with me. :lol:[/QUOTE]
I am the same - I am fine with blood, guts, poop and the like but have a horror of wet cat food. My BF thinks it’s the weirdest thing ever and once consumed some in front of me, ostensibly to make me throw up. (It did make me retch.)
re: sponges, I buy cheapies in huge packs so I can microwave them constantly and throw them out every couple of uses.
Reading this thread has made me realize, however, that while I will occasionally feed the cat off of a human dish and I always wash everything together, I am extremely skeeved out by letting the pets lick the plates/utensils after we’ve eaten. I just (irrationally) feel like the dishes develop a saliva coating that never comes off. SHUDDER.
