Hahaha, you are so right!

I use ceramic bowls for dry food and switch them out every other day usually. For wet food or raw, they get a clean dish every time.

I wash the bowls that I use to feed them canned food. But not the bowls that I use for dry food.

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.

I feed raw so I clean after each feeding. I don't clean the water bowls that often though

omg!!! i wash her bowls after her meals.. water bowl every morning
and then when i get home for dinner i wash her water bowl.. you have too,
there is grime and crap in the bowl, same goes for her food bowl.. when i get home in the evening and there is kibble in the bowl...out it goes and her
dish gets washed before i put another meal down..of course..

Good for you. I think I'm going to change my ways. I wouldn't eat all my meals out of the same plate without washing it (well, not since college). It makes sense to give them clean bowls for every meal and a couple times a day for water.

good for you too:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: .
the water gets slimy too and its yucky.. bet you never even realized it.
i never did either until i was told..

I use ceramic dishes for the girls. I wash the food bowl after every feeding. The water bowl I wash and change the water every morning and evening. It seems like Gracie is always there for a fresh drink of water.:p

I use ceramic bowls for both food and water and wash them both twice a day before feedings. I also leave water out all day, but I do rinse and refresh that a couple of times between feedings as well. And then she goes outside and eats grass and hunts for sticks and bugs...hmm...

Our automatic waterer (fountain) type is washed out twice a week. I keep it outside because we live in Arizona and they could DIE if not hydrated out there. The dishes for inside are washed daily. There is a free feeder outside that is also cleaned twice a week. (it is plastic)

I will be switching to stainless steel dished for indoors. The steel would get too hot outside for them I fear.

I use ceramic dishes. Mine eat dry food so I wash their food dishes at night when I do our dinner dishes. I usually wash their water bowls every day but sometimes every other day.

I use stainless steel dishes. I use 5 bowls per day (one water, one kibble and 3 for chicken). I have enough bowls for 3 days, so I put in the dishwasher daily.

What is freeze died raw food?????