If you have a dog..

[SKP82]

No. That is fucking gross.

[cleo29]

No, doesn't mean he doesn't try. lol

[lucky513]

ew no way

[lightyears]

no. rigby is too fat and he's not allowed to have people food.

[Deleted]

Not a chance.  Sometimes h tries to give them water from my good bowls and I get so mad  .

[MrsAxilla]

Never. We never give table food because I hate begging.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

No. They get scraps mixed in with their dinner and get to clean the floor after DS, but they don't get to lick the plates.

[ndolehan]

Nope - Our lab would get the sh*ts if we let him eat any kind of people food, even just a plate lick. Our other dog is scared to death of plates/dishware makes it easier! 

[Jalapeñomel]

Fuck no. 

I also do not let the dog lick my face either. 

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[Deleted]

No. But I did let my dog in college do that before I cleaned them and put them in the wash.

[falada45]

My cats will lick my plate if I set it down on our coffee table. Our cocker spaniel's favorite chore is licking the dirty plates as we load the dishwasher. I don't think it's a big deal since everything gets washed before it's used.

[VeryViolet]

I don't because there are rarely leftovers in my house lol. If we do have leftovers we give them to the dog in his bowl but that is just to prevent begging. At my mom's the dogs all go to town on the dinner plates and then they get washed in the dishwasher it isn't that big a deal.

[speckledfrog]

Not every day, but sometimes when we have treats I put the plate down for him to lick. I'm surprised to see so many people be horrified by this. Of all the gross things my dog does, this ranks pretty low.

[amberlyrose]

DH lets them every once in a blue moon. I try not to let them think that they are allowed the food on our plates, so I don't.

[Deleted]

See, for me it's just that Cali is so big and clumsy. She has broken dishes in the past by slamming them into walls with her nose trying to get the very last crumb.

[TrickyBob]

We try not to give our dog people food but every once in awhile, I will put the plate down so she can lick it clean. At that point, she's pretty much trying to lick smells off a plate. The cats are worse, you turn your backs on them and all of a sudden there is a fur ball licking your plate.

I have to admit that sometimes if I make a casserole and there is some hard to get off stuff left in the dish, I set it on the floor and let the dog clean it. Her tongue is a fabulous scrubber and she can get the hard gunk off. When I do that, afterwards I soak the cooking dish in a bleach/water solution and then wash them as normal. Not that I'm overly concerned about it but in the event anyone ever comes over for dinner or I give someone something, I want to make sure the dish is CLEAN beyond soap and the bleach makes me feel better.

All that said, sometimes I drop food on the floor and I pick it up and eat it. My floor is probably 10x dirtier than my dogs tongue.

[Deleted]

My dog licks his ass and his balls. He eats cat shit if he can get to it.

Hence, I do not want to eat off of anything his tongue has touched, I don't care if it's been washed.

[berbles]

Yeah, we do sometimes. 

H will share his ice cream cone/spoon with them.    When I catch him doing it, I refuse to kiss him. 

[goaskalice]

Nope. He doesn't get any people food at all since he has allergies and his stomach is sensitive.

[CurlyQ284]

No, they have sensitive stomachs and it would give them the runs. My dad used to put the plates down for the basset hounds growing up and yelled "pre-wash!"

[2boys2danes]

Yes.....with two boys and two big dogs, there's lots of gross things that go on here...

[RoxMonster]

Nope. Roxie is only allowed to eat out of her own bowl, never off of our plates or fed straight from the table.

[Kore]

Sometimes. I mean, I let raw meat touch my dishes. That is way nastier. Washing kills germs.

[Jermys]

Yep! I'm not grossed out by it.

[ndolehan]

Mar 19, 2013 18:56:26 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Fuck no. 

I also do not let the dog lick my face either. 

Ugh - It grosses me out so much when I see a dog lick someone's face! OR on the mouth! *shrudders* 

I don't care if the saying "a dog's mouth is cleaner than a person's mouth" is true or not. It still bothers me. 

[birdistheword]

I'm loling at everyone who is horrified by this. We will occasionally let Heidi lick plates if it's not something that will upset her stomach. I don't see what the big deal is. The plates go straight into the dishwasher where they are cleaned with soap and scalding hot water.

[litebright]

I think DH would divorce me, lol. He's not a die-hard dog lover anyway, and we have a series of compromises -- no dogs on the furniture, no dogs in bed, no dogs fed from the table -- in order to be a dog-having household.

My dogs have sensitive tummies anyway. Regular plate licking would inevitably result in 3 a.m. puke clean-up at some point.

My tall dog does occasionally steal something from a plate that has been left on the table, but it's definitely not something that's "allowed".

[thatgirl2478]

Sometimes.  We have a dishwasher, all plates go through that.

[speckledfrog]

Mar 19, 2013 19:26:40 GMT -5 ste said:

Mar 19, 2013 19:24:14 GMT -5 Jermys said:

Yep! I'm not grossed out by it.

Same here. I even share special treats with them.

I feel like this is kissing-babies-on-the-mouth-esque, and I got the memo late again.

Are we not supposed to kiss babies on the mouth?  Someone alert CPS!