Do you let your dog lick your plate?

[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.

[Lori Jordan]

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.

I was just about to say the same thing!I don't make a habit of it either.Every animal owner is different.I use to let them,and that did not work.I do not like dogs that bag at the table.I do alot of dinner parties and having 4 big dogs sitting around a table begging is not my idea of fun.

[chocolatepuppy]

Dogs lick too many other places before they lick the plates, so no. I don't freak if they do get a lick in though. I hand wash my dishes so maybe that's not as clean as the hot water in a dishwasher.

[dab_20]

I used to let my dogs lick my spoon if I was eating yogurt or something, but not right off my plate. They have a bad enough begging habit. My fiance is extremely grossed out by it too, so no, I don't let them.

[Roxyluvsme13]

No. That sounds gross to me, especially knowing where their mouths have been. They get bites of whatever is on the plate usually (unless it's something they can't have of course!) but actually licking the plate, yuck!