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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
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.
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I don't know, just seems like something better done at home in your own kitchen or dinning room to me. In public there are just too many mixed opinions, so it would be best to leave pets at home when dining out. One of the things we used to do, load up the children on a Saturday night and go to the local Dairy Queen. When we were all finished, my husband never ever failed to go to the window and get a one scoop no topping custard in a cup.... for Gizmo, when we got home ! We never ever considered taking him, or taking him anywhere except when we went camping for a week at the fishing camp. He never went to the grocery store, hardware store, never even was invited to a birthday party.. but he seem to be happy ? ?