My pets lick their buttholes.

For the dry food, no, she cleans that pretty good all by herself. I clean the water bowl because she loves to grow things in it.

Yeah, man. The cats bowl is cleaned for every meal. I wouldn’t eat off of yesterday’s food remnants so why should she?

Are you asking if I wash the dishes I use to feed my pets? Of course I do. They’re not gonna do it themselves.

I used to wash the cats’ water dish every day, and as long they ate all their dry food, those dishes would get done too.

The hounds were super messy, so both dishes at both meals.

The wildlife gets new dishes every morning.

I’m sure they all could handle the grime, but they deserve as good as I can give them.

Our old girl Chloe (18 - I call her Kitty Bear) is blind now (poor little thing), and spends most of her day on her bed on the couch next to my wife. We feed her on a small plate of food that we bring to her bed, and her dishes get washed after every use. When she is thirsty, she gently puts a paw on my wife’s arm, and my wife holds a cup of water to her mouth.

Nothing is too good for our sweet girl. She’s the last one standing of a beautiful cat family that lived with us all these years. It started when a big steady tomcat we named Jake befriended my son, moved in, decided we were acceptable, and then went and got his beautiful Siamese girlfriend Maggie (I called her Mama Bear), and their three kittens. No humans were consulted in these decisions.

Chloe (I call her Kitty Bear) is the last one. We wash her food and water dishes every day.

Dos gatos, wash their water bowls every other day and clean down their feeder bowl once a month to get off the meat cereal gunk. They’re both messy/crunchy eaters.

I have cats. Their bowls get cleaned once a day. Their water glasses are rinsed out once a day and go through the dishwasher once a week. Yes, I have a special set of glassware that my cats drink from.

Yes. The water and kibble bowl gets swapped out and washed every couple of days, wet food bowl washed daily.

Clean the bowl after every meal? Even just dry dog food? …no

We don’t change / clean the food bowls or water dish daily but for convince the cat has the same (small side) plates as we use and it all goes in the dishwasher.

Also the cat assumes all and any glasses with water in them are shared. He also drinks from just about any water source he finds outside in the garden - so he’s not picky.

My dog licks his metal food bowl clean after every meal, regardless of wet or dry food. When I had another dog, he’d lick her bowl clean too, when she was done eating. I give the bowl a good rinse before filling it at every meal, then wash it with soap and water maybe once every couple weeks.

Same with the metal water bowl. Every meal, I dump out whatever water is still left in it, give it a good rinse, then refill with fresh water. Then I do a soap and water clean every two weeks or so.

I live out in the countryside, so we have well water with lots of minerals in it. My dad used to just top off the dogs’ water bowl every day and it started forming a calcium mineral ring along the top edge. Now that I rinse it a couple times daily, it stays pristine. No more water rings.

My dog is also an indoor dog, so the cleaner I keep his food/water bowls, the less germs and bacteria he spreads around the house. I don’t have to fend him off if he wants to lick hands or faces now.

For the wet food, yes. And it just so happens that it’s not a bowl either: My cats happen to eat from these fancy desert plates we have but never use:

They’re low enough for them to easily access the food, they’re perfectly sized for the amount they eat, and they clean up nicely in the dishwasher at the end of the day.

The dry food bowl, on the other hand, is a basic metal bowl. They clean it well themselves.

We use small plates from our dinner china to feed our pets and wash them every time they’re fed

I clean their bowls with hot soapy water as part of the feeding routine twice a day.