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Originally Posted by I'm Popeye!
Sounds like you might have Dog Hair particle infective sponges to wash those animal-over-licked dishes that are sitting on your rack.  |
I don't have a dog. My cat has her own dish. I also find it unappetizing to see a dog sitting on a chair or on the restaurant table eating off a plate there.
But not because of unsanitary washing protocol. Your own mouth harbors almost as much bacteria as a dog's mouth - and yours is riskier to your own health than theirs is (you can't catch a cold from a dog, but you can catch one from a human).
Do we dispose of or boil all plates that come into human contact in restaurants? Nope. Some places have paper or disposable take-out containers but if you're sitting at the table, you're getting something that someone else at off of. Or drooled on. Or their dentures popped out on.
How many of you who own dogs, or visit homes that have dogs, walk barefoot on the house's floor? You'll pick up more disgusting who knows what that way, than you will eating off a plate that was once used by a dog, and has been washed many times under hot water with detergent.
Being grossed out by watching someone's dog get up on the restaurant table and helping herself to the lobster mac & cheese is a reasonable reaction. Being grossed out because that dog is being served whipped cream and fried beef liver in a normal dessert plate on the floor next to the table is an unreasonable reaction.