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We have a fork specifically for cat food. It’s different from all our other forks (we bought it separately) and it’s used exclusively for ‘mashing’ and dividing wet cat food.
We love our cats and we love to give them the food they like but wet cat food is disgusting and we’d rather not risk cross contamination.
We got an egg folk, bowl and sponge. Mum hated things that touched eggs to touch anything else.
I'm learning that my household had a shit tonne of weird things
We have a cat fork too! It even has a special place it lives next to the sink
Cat fork people unite!
If your cat food is disgusting, you're buying bad cat food. For the love of cats, start feeding them decent stuff, please.
The food is fine and they go bananas for it so who am I to judge? The disgust is wholly my own.
I use a regular fork when mashing dog food, and the fork goes directly into the dishwasher afterwards. I can't fathom what kind of cross contamination that would lead to.
You are lucky. My mom used the same dishes we used ourselves for the cat food and would rinse them off in the sink with a sponge. And she used a different dish every time so no bowl or plate in the house was safe. Made me feel icky eating dinner out of a cat food bowl but she thought I was strange for caring.
Enamel is non-porous afaik so you're completely safe. That's one of those natural human responses that's actually unwarranted if you consider modern materials (and the fact that cat food is really just meat)
We have a similar spoon for dog food. My wife wasn't paying attention and it got ripped up in the garbage disposal several years ago. It is easily identified by its jagged edges.
Oh damn, that just unlocked a memory, we had the same thing when I was a kid
Try not buying paté and use chunks or slivers instead. Also pet food is made with the meat from stores like Walmart that was getting too close to the expiration date. It should be totally safe for humans to consume and doesn't have a risk of contaminating you and making you sick.