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View Poll Results: How often do you clean their food and water bowls? | |||
After every feeding | 57 | 28.36% | |
Once a day | 47 | 23.38% | |
Every 2-4 days | 57 | 28.36% | |
5-7 days | 31 | 15.42% | |
You have to clean them? | 9 | 4.48% | |
Voters: 201. You may not vote on this poll |
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02-27-2008, 09:21 AM | #16 |
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| 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.
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02-27-2008, 09:23 AM | #17 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
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| I wash the bowls that I use to feed them canned food. But not the bowls that I use for dry food. |
02-27-2008, 09:36 AM | #18 |
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| 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.
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02-27-2008, 10:36 AM | #19 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: DFW, Texas
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| I feed raw so I clean after each feeding. I don't clean the water bowls that often though
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02-27-2008, 11:45 AM | #20 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
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| 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..
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02-27-2008, 01:41 PM | #21 | |
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02-27-2008, 01:44 PM | #22 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
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| good for you too . the water gets slimy too and its yucky.. bet you never even realized it. i never did either until i was told..
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02-27-2008, 02:03 PM | #23 |
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| I use stainless steel bowls,, mornings they get some canned food,, i wash as soon as they are done,, but their dry food is free feed and also in stainless bowls,, i wash every 3 or 4 days on average,, as for their water, we have a Drinkwell Water Fountain,, (which we love),, have had it over a year now,, got it after we got Daisy,, she drinks A LOT compared to just Cricket,, the fountain i add to daily, take up and clean every week or so,, cleaning the filter then,, and replacing as needed,, which isnt too often ,, its stays nice and clean,, Daisy and Trixie will lap from the bowl most of the time,, but Miss Cricket only drinks from the running water,, lol,, Miss Priss,, who was raised on bottled water!
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02-27-2008, 06:26 PM | #24 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston area
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| 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.
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02-27-2008, 06:55 PM | #25 |
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| some ppl actually picked the last choice?! I thought that was a joke.. lol I hand wash once a day [usually mornings]--she has ceramic bowls. Unless it's wet food, then I'll try to wash right after shes done.
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02-27-2008, 07:10 PM | #26 |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas Metroplex
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| 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... |
02-28-2008, 08:12 AM | #27 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Arizona
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| 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.
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02-28-2008, 08:55 AM | #28 |
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| 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.
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02-28-2008, 09:08 AM | #29 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Connecticut
Posts: 1,511
| 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.
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02-28-2008, 09:16 AM | #30 |
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