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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.

like. we don't have multiple bowls but we clean them between feeding and like once a day for the water.

wtf

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.

My pets lick their buttholes.

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?

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.

We use small plates from our dinner china to feed our pets and wash them every time they're fed

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.

Dos gatos, wash their water bowls every other day and clean down their feeder bowl once a month to get off the meat cereal gunk. They’re both messy/crunchy eaters.

Clean the bowl after every meal? Even just dry dog food? …no

I have cats. Their bowls get cleaned once a day. Their water glasses are rinsed out once a day and go through the dishwasher once a week. Yes, I have a special set of glassware that my cats drink from.

Yes. The water and kibble bowl gets swapped out and washed every couple of days, wet food bowl washed daily.

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.

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.

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).

We don't change / clean the food bowls or water dish daily but for convince the cat has the same (small side) plates as we use and it all goes in the dishwasher.

Also the cat assumes all and any glasses with water in them are shared. He also drinks from just about any water source he finds outside in the garden - so he's not picky.