[nvnvgirl]

Until I read it here, I was using small plastic bowls for Max's water and food dishes. I have 2 cats also and was using them for their canned food too, so I have a LOT of them b/c they were pretty inexpensive and I'd just clean out the water dish every morning and refill it and take the food dishes from the day before and stick them in the dishwasher and exchange them for clean ones.
Now that I've learned the error of using plastic dishes, Max has larger ceramic dishes that I think are really cute, but he's only got one for food and one for water, and I've got 2 small ones for his dry food. He gets a little canned food in the morning and evening, so after he inhales his morning meal, I just pick up the dish and wash it, and I wash out his water dish and refill it. (I figure who wants to drink out of the same water you were licking up yesterday...it would be like me drinking out of the same waterbottle all the time?). His dry food dish, I trade off every day or two b/c it doesn't seem like it gets as grody as the other ones. And I wash his food bowl at night after he eats too. It's really warm here most of the time, so I worry about bacteria growing.