Keeping Your Dog Dishes Clean
We feed Cooper three times a day. We also give him filtered water from the fridge. We go through a couple of refrigerator water filters in a year. With three feedings a day and constantly filling up his water dish it doesn't take them long to get dirty. It's important for your dogs health to make sure his food and water bowls are kept clean. If it is something that you take for granted you should check out your dogs bowls the next time you feed them. It really doesn't take long for crud to grow on them. I am sure your pets are like us, they probably don't want to be eating out of dirty dishes anymore than we do.
At first we tried putting his ceramic dishes through the dishwasher but this didn't really get them clean. We found that it just kind of baked some of the grim onto the bowls. Your best bet for cleaning your dog dishes is to let them soak in water with a bit of dish soap for a couple of hours or even overnight if you can. Then scrub them out with a scrub brushd or pad. When you have them all cleaned out make sure you rinse them out so there is no soap residue left over.
How often should you clean their bowls? That really depends on a few things like what they are made of and what you are feeding your dog. The best bet is to keep your eye on the food dish and when it looks dirty clean it. I find the water bowl will tend to get dirty fast so washing it out once a day if you can wouldn't hurt.
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