Do you let your dog lick your plate?

[kaycountrygal]

No, I do not.

[lolli94]

I would when I'm finished eating but my mom freaks out and they're her plates.

[Taz_Zoee]

Nope!!

And with Bruce's RB Cocker Spaniel, BJ, we didn't either. BUT Bruce would scrape plates into his dish out in the garage. That little habit did not carry over with the dogs we have now. I refuse! The only human food they get is carrots (daily), sometimes cheese or lunchmeat and peanut butter. I'm a mean mom!

[dukedogsmom]

Ew! No.

[IRescue452]

If its something they can have and they haven't been begging I will let them have it. They have to sit stay first and be invited to lick it. What's eww about a plate that's going to be washed anyway?

[pomtzu]

Sure - why not??? As long as it's something that they are allowed to have, tho I don't make a habit of it. And why the eww's and no's??? You're going to wash the plate anyway - right??

[Taz_Zoee]

Oh, I should have mentioned........Zoee licks the plates when they are in the dishwasher. When they are still dirty, of course! I don't really "let" her, but sometimes she sneaks a lick or two.

[sasvermont]

I do with food that I think will not make Prue sick. She expects it but doesn't always get her way. I see nothing wrong with it. She doesn't beg. If I say NO, she walks away, sad! She has gotten stuck food off just about every plate. It is like a "pre-wash" cycle for me!

So who wants to come to dinner tomorrow. LOL!

[dukedogsmom]

What's wrong with not liking it? Especially when you have no dishwasher. I wasn't brought up letting pets lick plates.

[Sowa]

I don't really like the thought of my dogs licking plates either. I also don't want them getting into a habit of thinking it's ok to sniff around my plate. Sometimes I get up for a minute (I have a low coffee table) I don't want them to think it's ok to take something off it. They have licked stuff off the plate when I wasn't looking, it's not really a big deal. I'd just rather they didn't.

[happylabs]

I don't really like the thought of my dogs licking plates either. I also don't want them getting into a habit of thinking it's ok to sniff around my plate. Sometimes I get up for a minute (I have a low coffee table) I don't want them to think it's ok to take something off it. They have licked stuff off the plate when I wasn't looking, it's not really a big deal. I'd just rather they didn't.

I used to let Casey do this, but now that I think about it, you are probably best not to let them do this. Casey was a TERRIBLE food thief. I am thinking if we would not have started giving her bites of things she wouldn't have been this way.

[Karen]

Growing up, we sometimes let the dogs lick a plate after dinner, but it was always brought out the kitchen and put down near their own dish. All our dogs (chronologically Shepherd/Doberman mix, Saint Bernard and Great Dane(3/4)/Lab mix) were all tall enough to eat off the table, but has been trained from puppy hood not to do so. And Freckles particularly liked to "clean" the cereal bowls when we were done with breakfast. Every dish was then going to be washed, anyway, so there was never any chance of dog saliva remaining behind!

With Miss Hoppy, she had no interest in what I ate, anyway, so with a bunny - not an issue! When I ate salad, I let stuff touch other stuff - the horror!

[Bonny]

No licking my plate but they have their own bowls & I will scrape left overs into their bowls which they really like.

[Freedom]

No BECAUSE with so many pets here, it would be WW III!!!! And for the dogs, it would lead to them begging and pestering us all through a meal.

I clear the table, set the plates by the sink and then sometimes . . . a plate gets set down for a cleaning. LOL

Marlin is our Simonizer - once he is done, that plate is SMOOOOOTH!

[caseysmom]

I let casey lick my bowl after I eat ice cream, there is very little left on the bowl but she knows when she hears me finish she can lick the bowl. She is very polite about it. It grosses my husband out so when she has it licked clean I always hand it to him and say "the bowl is clean you can put it back in the cabinet" hahaha, it is slimy when I start to wash it.