How often do you wash your cat/dog's food and water bowls?
When I was a kid, we had cats and honestly, I don't remember their bowls getting washed with any sort of regularity. With my cats now, I'm washing their bowls in the dishwasher whenever they start looking icky. (I do rinse the water bowl when I fill it up.)
Also, how often do you wash pet beds/blankets? I wash mine whenever they start looking really hairy...which, having cats who shed like it's their job, happens almost instantly.
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We wash Loki's food bowl every 2-3 days. It gets crusty and gross pretty quickly. He has a water fountain that we clean every 2-3 weeks.
He has a blanket on the end of the couch and I wash it probably every 2 weeks or so. He sleeps so many places that his hair doesn't build up too rapidly, and we clean every weekend to keep it at bay.
The water and food bowls I probably wash 2x a week, only because we have mastiff's and the drool a lot especially when they are eating and drinking.
Their beds, I was every other week only because they drag them into DS & LO room to sleep and I don't want them to stink or DS to lay on them when they are so dirty.
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I wash our dog's food/water bowls once a week.
She doesn't have a bed/blanket. She's always been allowed on furniture and snuggles up on our laps and sleeps at the foot of our bed curled up among our feet. (Habitually, I strip the bed down and wash sheets/pillowcases once a week; I wash the comforter once a month.)
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I wash their food/water bowls whenever I fill them up. Their blankets are done weekly with the regular laundry.
We have a boxer dog and a tabby cat. They both are messy eaters so we wash their dishes at least once a week but generally more often than that.
They both have two beds (one upstairs and one downstairs) and those get washed once a week or every other week. I buy new pillows for us every quarter and the old pillows go in the dog bed. Then the next quarter I throw them out and replace them with our next old set. I also buy fleece remnants at the fabric store for my dog blankets because my boxer chews her blankets and they need to be thrown out a couple of times a year.
Food bowls: Never, really. We have a feeder for our dog and he is a "bite at a time" grazer. The cats...well, our dog tends to lick their bowl clean for them. If I start to see crusty stuff in there, I'll wash it, but it's usually pretty "clean" for the cats.
Water bowls, I rinse them every time I change the water, but once a week, they get washed with soap and hot water.
Food and water bowls are washed daily.
Blankets once a week.
The cat's bowls go through the dishwasher once a month. But everytime he is right out of water we paper towel clean it (meaning we just wipe it) and it takes a bunch of the gunk out.
He sleeps on our bed a lot. So he has his own blanket. It gets washed probably once a month cause it is full of hair by the end of a month. I wash our sheets every 2 weeks cause he likes to crawl inside!!
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