How often do you wash your cat or dog's dishes?

[Snow]

Trying my first poll.

 

Pick the one that's closest. I fear I might be alone on this one!

[Annie G]

Dh washes the cat's food and water bowls every day. He took that task on because I just wasn't getting around to it very often. Despite good intentions, I just wasn't making it a priority. I don't think the cat cares. He craves sweet tea, will fight you for scrambled eggs, and shredded cheese is his crack. He'll eat anything, anywhere.

[eclecticschooler]

Hardly ever. If they look dirty. The dogs eat horse poop. They obviously aren't picky.

 

I do rinse the water bowls daily and wipe them out with a paper towel. no soap involved though!

[dbmamaz]

i dont know . . dh does both those chores :blushing: but i saw him washing out the cat dishes this evening!

[Orthodox6]

Every couple of days. Who would want to find ants in the dog bowl?!

[Dory]

Once a week unless it's a boarder, then they have their cleaned daily.

[Snow]

Okay, I changed one of the responses to mean "hardly ever."

 

Yeah, sil washes them after every meal and she has four dogs and three cats :ohmy: As you may have guessed, I'm on the other end of the spectrum.

[quark]

After every meal (which is now only once a day after I switched to raw food, used to be fed twice a day when on dry food). He's my little baby. :001_wub: Ask me again a few years from now...my dog is still new to me and I do tend to get lazy after lavishing new things with attention. :p

[Dandelion]

Uhhh, this poll is anonymous, right? :leaving:

 

Interpret that as you wish. :p

[Audrey]

They get kibble once a day and canned food once a day. The canned food dishes get washed every day. The kibble dishes get damp wiped every day, not really washed. It's kibble. I don't consider it that messy that it needs soap and water every day.

[Joker]

I only clean the food bowl if it looks dirty. He eats dry food and he cleans it pretty well himself every night. I rinse the water bowl every time I fill it and clean it whenever it looks like it needs it. We've never had a bug or ant problem with his food or water dishes so I guess we're good.

[TeenagerMom]

Our pets only eat dry food so I wash them on occasion when they start looking grungy. The water bowl gets refilled 2X a day typically so I guess you could consider that rinsed. LOL

[AngieW in Texas]

The water bowl gets rinsed every time it is refilled (at least 1x/day) and gets wiped out with a paper towel after the rinsing maybe 1x/week.

 

The food bowl gets wiped out maybe 1x/month.

 

The Kongs get put through the dishwasher every time I run it. If I am putting anything liquidy in the Kong (like canned pumpkin), it also gets washed out in the sink between uses. If only dry kibble is being used, then it just gets rinsed out 1x/day. The kongs always get put in the dishwasher when I run it though (that's maybe 2x/week).

[jeninok]

I tend to feed our two dogs using the plates we use for breakfast and dinner, then they go straight in the dishwasher to be sterilized.

 

I wash the cats bowls once a week or so, and the water bowl gets rinsed daily and washed in the dishwasher weekly.

[Sarah CB]

Don't they wash their own dishes?

[RoughCollie]

I wash Aidan's bowls after every meal, so twice a day. The food bowls go in the dishwasher, and I wash his stainless steel water bowls by hand. In between, I rinse and refill his water bowl about 4 times a day. He has a pretty long beard, and anything on it gets in the water.

[Snow]

Nice to see I'm not alone in being a total slacker on this one. :thumbup:

[Tammi K]

Our cat and dog only get dry food in their bowls. Dry food isn't dirty, right? :laugh:

[Laura Corin]

I wash them weekly, when I clean the kitchen. She eats dry food.

 

Laura

[Melissa in Australia]

Other. we keep our dog outside.( I don't believe in animals inside) It eats out of an old frying pan with no handle. We give it dry kibbles in its dish. It gets fresh bones once a week and is a very healthy dog.

I also don't wash my chook dishes or my cow dish. I don't see any reason to start either.

[Pawz4me]

Food bowls get washed after every meal. Water bowls are emptied and refilled after every meal, and washed once a week.

[AMJ]

Once in a while on the dry cat food dish. More often on the water dish, to prevent slime (develops fast in this humid environment). Tuna treat dishes (a spoonful every now & again) are washed after she finishes.

[Night Elf]

We use dry food only, so about every couple of weeks I'll wash them. When we had only one dog and she was eating a raw diet, we washed the plate every day. We also rinse out the water dish every week or so. No soap.

[kewb]

It is really more of a when I notice. The dogs water dish usually gets done every few days.

[Jeannie in NJ]

I feed my cats wet food with a little dry food as snacks so I wash their 8 dishes (forget them ever agreeing to share a dish lol) every day but only because it is canned food. If they ate only dry, I would wash probably every few days but not every day. Their plates are the saucers for tea cups (which we never use) from my 2nd best china, the ones we use every day. We never used the saucers so they became cat plates. We also don't use the saucers from my first best set of china, but letting the cats eat off my best china would be going a little far lol.

[MIch elle]

The water bowl gets cleaned every 2-3 days because it looks dirty (bacteria or minerals in bottom?). The food bowl (dry with water added) is licked clean by them 2x/day so it never looks dirty, so I throw it in the dishwasher about 1 month or more.

 

So I can't answer you poll because of the difference in the 2 different bowls.