Is it wrong to let my dog preclean my pots and pans?

[Throd]

Lately I have been letting my dog lick the remains from my frying pans. She seems to love it and as a 90lb Rottweiler/Shephard she has a big ol' tongue well suited for the job. After she is done I rinse the pan and stick it in the dishwasher. It seems gross at first, but when one considers how much bacteria is on the average household sponge, it might be just as sanitary with less scrubbing. I consider it a win/win.

[betharina]

1. my dogs help me do the dishes daily. nt

[Duer 157099]

2. Have you noticed that her tongue leaves a really slimy film on them?

It comes off in the dishwasher, but when washing by hand, it's really tough to get through it.

I only allow my dog to lick dishes that I know will go into the dishwasher.

But yes, I do that. Except with my cast iron pan that will never go in the dishwasher.

[Throd]

3. I try to rinse off the saliva before I put it in the washer.

[Duer 157099]

5. But it does not rinse off. It barely scrubs off, in my experience

Maybe my dog has an abnormally high level of amylase or something in her spit.

[marzipanni]

12. Dogs' saliva is like a liquid band-aid. They lick a wound and the saliva coats it.

In nursing school an instructor told us about a former student who fell while coasting down the hospital driveway on her bicycle. She had a badly skinned knee which really began to heal well when she went home for the weekend and her dog licked the abrasion. People and cats have much more toxic bacteria in their mouths than dogs.
When I let my dog lick pans, plates and bowls, I use some scouring powder and a small cloth to cut through the slime.

[Duer 157099]

13. That's very true.

You know, I called it "spit" and for some reason, while technically saliva is the same as spit, since dogs don't actually spit it didn't quite sound right, did it?

I suppose we should be glad that dogs can't spit, like camels.

[LynzM]

23. Same here...

One of our dogs has much more "sticky" saliva than the other. Needs a *lot* of hot water and scrubbing to get that stuff off. Bleh. But sometimes we let her anyway. :)

[Duer 157099]

4. And of course you've heard the one about the guy who

had family over for dinner and when his son asked how clean his dishes were, the old man said "They're as clean as cold water can get them" and then later on in the evening, he heard his old man calling for his dog, Coldwater.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. I don't let my dog "pre-clean" mine until JUST before I use them again.

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That "pre-moistening" means I don't need oil or butter anymore.
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Nah... just kidding. I don't really have a dog.
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So, I just don't clean my pots and pans before I reuse them.
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Anybody ELSE spend less time sleeping on the floor of your bathroom
when you actually DO have a dog to help out in the kitchen?
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[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Four things.

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1. I came in here from posting to find the post prior to mine.
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2. That wasn't a joke.
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3. I wasn't an "old man".
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4. I miss Coldwater (and not just for KP duty, neither).
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[Skittles]

8. scheduling Throd for ass kicking

EGREGIOUS

[LeftyMom]

9. Just remember: your dog licks his junk with that same tongue.

So really, you could have him teabag your dishes for the same effect.

[SoCalDem]

10. My cat Marvin has butter-radar.. If I leave it uncovered, he finds it..

Who knew that cats could have a butter deficiency:)

[marzipanni]

11. My mom's cousin had a fat black cat, Jack.

On her counter one could often find a stick of butter that had the tell-tale cat-tongue sanded section. :o

[muffin1]

18. Years ago, Hubby and I came home to find

our cat on the table, in front of a stick of butter we had forgotten to put away.
The butter had a "tongue tunnel" that ran halfway through the stick.
:P

Kitty didn't seem any worse for the wear, though.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Butter is a good hairball remedy

Use that or margarine if they don't like the stuff you get at the pet store.

[JCMach1]

16. My dog managed to get the butter then *barfed* it up

My dog has major food issues.

[astral]

14. My family always did that when I was growing up

and I ALWAYS thought it was reprehensible and gross. Different people see it differently.

[rcrush]

15. How would your dog like it if you licked his dishes!?

[Beer Snob-50]

17. as long as the food was gone

she could care less.

my dog does a great job btw, in precleaning my dishes.

[CRK7376]

19. Our 3 dogs

help out all the time, especially when my wife is in another room. She doesn't much care for me giving the dogs her plates and pans for "pre-cleaning". Lab, mixed Aussie Sheppard/Lab, and Foxhound. All are hungry all the time so it seems.....

[surrealAmerican]

20. It's only a problem if, for some reason, you have to stop doing it.

One of my dogs recently developed food allergies, and the look of betrayal after our meals is heartbreaking.

[Throd]

21. You mean like when my wife catches me?

[msanthrope]

22. Don't tell the dinner guests that little anecdote.......n/t

[bamacrat]

24. Yes, but it has caused an issue with my dog...

He expects it to the point that as soon as I am done he's standing there staring at my plate drooling. It's kinda funny but he think's he is entitled to it and sometimes tries to start before I'm done. We eat at our coffee table most of the time since there are only two of us. So it's on his eye level. He likes the weirdest things. He loves Italian salad dressing, popsicles, wasabi and vegetables. The only thing he doesn't seem to like is marshmallows, I don't think he understands that they are edible. I thought dogs were allergic to chocolate, not mine. One time the wife and I were at a friends house and had so chocolates (the trippy kind) and there was some crumbs in the wrappers he ate two or three wrappers and tripped his balls off. Humped everything and pee'd just standing there. We didn't realize why he was acting that way till the next day when we were cleaning up.

[LibertyLover]

25. Nah,

many dish washers even suggest that you preclean dishes before loading them. How else are you going to save water if you don't let the dogs preclean the dishes?

[GoCubsGo]

27. I let my cats do so.

They get sanitized in the dishwasher, so why not? Unless, of course, I had something with onions or garlic in it. Neither are good for cats or dogs.