Afraid of water bowl HELP

[kalina82]

Originally Posted by ARCHIE

Please never use bleach around your dog's food items or toys.

bleach is perfectly find to use on dog bowl, toys, crates, floors, anything around the dog. what do you think shelters and vet's offices use? i've worked at both and we always use some quantity of bleach. at the vets office we used a mixture of bleach and simple green plus water. at the shelter straight bleach was poured on kennel floors and mopped up. Bleach was used on all bowls. I've never had an animal, big or small, young or old, react to the bleach we used and i've used it ALOT.

[Sophie'smom]

Thanks for all your help. I had a nice ceramic dog dish that I washed with hot soapy water and then ran through the dishwasher. I put it down for her and she is drinking great from it. I will by another one and switch them out when I want to clean the other. I will also watch her for signs of irritation from the new bowl.

[kalina82]

Originally Posted by Sophie'smom

Thanks for all your help. I had a nice ceramic dog dish that I washed with hot soapy water and then ran through the dishwasher. I put it down for her and she is drinking great from it. I will by another one and switch them out when I want to clean the other. I will also watch her for signs of irritation from the new bowl.

great! that's the way to do it. you shouldn't have any problems. If you do you'll notice her scratching her chin alot on the carpet or upholstry or you'll notice pimples or red bumps on her chin.

[ARCHIE]

Originally Posted by kalina82

bleach is perfectly find to use on dog bowl, toys, crates, floors, anything around the dog. what do you think shelters and vet's offices use? i've worked at both and we always use some quantity of bleach. at the vets office we used a mixture of bleach and simple green plus water. at the shelter straight bleach was poured on kennel floors and mopped up. Bleach was used on all bowls. I've never had an animal, big or small, young or old, react to the bleach we used and i've used it ALOT.

It is something I would not use around my Yorkie or any other pet I had.
But thanks for the info.

[Tiggerwit]

I didn't know about the bacteria issue. Never thought about it really, I wash the food dishes everynight and rinse out the water ones a couple times a day and then run everything through the dishwasher at least once a week.

I don't think I would use bleach either.. I'm sure if you rinse real well it's ok, but I don't know. I'm also real leary of simple green, my experience is that it's really harsh. I had a friend who used to use it to clean things around her house. She started getting sick and the doc said it gone through her skin (no gloves) and tore at her stomach lining or something like that.

[kalina82]

Originally Posted by Tiggerwit

I didn't know about the bacteria issue. Never thought about it really, I wash the food dishes everynight and rinse out the water ones a couple times a day and then run everything through the dishwasher at least once a week.

I don't think I would use bleach either.. I'm sure if you rinse real well it's ok, but I don't know. I'm also real leary of simple green, my experience is that it's really harsh. I had a friend who used to use it to clean things around her house. She started getting sick and the doc said it gone through her skin (no gloves) and tore at her stomach lining or something like that.

when we used the bleach and simple green in the hospital it was mostly for cleaning runs and cages. we used one of those big white buckets and put large splash of each in the bucket then added water. but at the shelter since you don't know what any of those dogs have, pure bleach was used on everything. thrown in the runs and cages and mopped with water and the pleach was put in the sink to was the metal bowls too. for my dog i'm going to use stainless steal bowls and a water bottle so i'm not going to have to use bleach. dishwasher and soap for my dog.