At the time I was in a group chat with cat owning friends. So I asked what they thought, thinking they’d be as horrified as I was. But no. They didn’t think it was a problem as long as the dishwasher was hot.
Theres a lot of things that are technically completely safe to do but are just subjectively disgusting. I mean we think poop is inherently grosser than other stuff but like everything else, its still just organic material and bacteria lol.
I mean, okay. Like, I know LOGICALLY that is probably true. Washing something is washing something, if you bleach the sink afterwards, sure, blah blah, but c'mon. It's forever dirty LOL.
I am pretty free when it comes to a lot of things but anything with cat litter near my kitchen sink is an ultimate NO. I had a friend who was offended that I used my silverware to scoop out cat FOOD from the can but that’s food and not nasty waste with chemically infused sand which can clog in unknown places in a dishwasher. What the actual f…
I was told I could find the scooper in the dishwasher. And that is where I found it. And there were other dishes in it. I was also told that I could run it again if I needed to after a few days.
I had a client who used a slotted spoon for a litter scooper. She was my worst client honestly, but the kitty was my favorite pet I’ve sat for so even though she left a 5 star review, it was all mixed up and she thanked me for taking such good care of her cat, I would never work with her again.
It would be OK to use a designated slotted spoon instead of a tool specifically designed to scoop litter but the leaving it in with other dishes they eat with and where food is prepared is gross (as is the case with OP's). Was your client's home clean otherwise? The client who had their litter boxes right up against their baking supplies had so much fur everywhere I had to vacuum everything (even the lamp shades) because I couldn't breathe. That place made me afraid to eat food from anyone whose home I haven't seen yet ever again.
Yea I feel like it's more disgusting than it sounds cause why is it in the sink to be cleaned? Is she using it for cooking too? I don't clean my shit scoopers
So even if you use the kitchen sink for this, which you know, you can sterilize, you get that done and sterilized, you don't just leave it sitting there!
This is what’s bothering me. I don’t have a mud room sink or laundry room like the kitchen sink is it. So I can understand cleaning it there and then cleaning the sink after but why is it just SITTING THERE
I clean mine but I do it in my MUD ROOM sink where I wash my cats butts and the dog. The thought of cleaning it where I clean my dishes makes me sick. 🤢
Yes! I use my outside hose because I’ve done it in my bathtub once and that litter will clog up your drains and get in crevices with particles. Just nope, it all goes outside with a designated scrubber.
Omg. So recently my partner and I took our small dog and our cat and worked remote in Mexico for two months. Our pets travelled in the cabin with us and it was a short direct flight from Vancouver. We obviously had to buy a litter box and scoop right away since we didn’t bring one with us.
Well when we got to the store we could not find a cat scoop for the LIFE OF US. We figured they were sold out, and it was late and we were tired but needed a solution. So we picked up a giant metal serving spoon to make do for the next bit till we could find one.
Let me tell you, this was a TASK!! We checked multiple stores, every single time we were out. We HATED using the metal serving spoon and complained every day when we scooped her litter. We found one THREE weeks into our trip (at the first store, so indeed they were sold out) and I have never been so happy to see a proper litter scoop in my life.
I cannot fathom that they use that regularly… and that it’s IN THE SINK
Yeppppp I was forced to use it because what else was I going to do and it was awful. If only there was some sort of cheap, plastic tool designed for this task.
She is defensive about it right off the bat, so others have pointed out to her that it’s disgusting.
She just doesn’t agree, “it’s not as disgusting as it sounds”
My roommate is oblivious to the cat scooper issues. I was washing a pan and she tosses the rubber mat under the cat litter box in the sink and says here, please give this a quick wash. I really don’t care one way or the other about an extra task because we trade off, but jesuz that’s gross. I have to carefully pick my words & tone or she’s mortally offended, and loses the message for the tone it’s delivered. I said anything cat litter related, if you don’t have time to deal with cleaning anything related to cat stuff, put it in my tub so I can. Nothing in the dang kitchen sink!!! (removing my exclamation marks in the verbal delivery).
Then I proceed to sanitize the sink AGAIN after just doing it.
My husband has put the freaking toilet plunger in the sink before and sees absolutely no problem with it. I'm so glad to hear I'm not crazy for not wanting things that touch poop in the kitchen sink!!!
I would, but I’m in an apartment several floors up. I use pet clean up times to follow up with a top down bathroom cleaning too. Lots of bleach and elbow grease.
She might be a sweetheart but not sweet enough to be eating poop 🤮
Can't unsee this ever
I get grossed out hearing the roomba sucking up little bits of cat litter but this is exponentially worse.
I have a client who uses large serving spoons as scoopers. They've had several cats for years. I always thought it was odd, but then again I've never seen them around the sink or any place other than the litter box areas.
I may be able to top this one… I have a client that does NOT OWN a scooper… one must pick up the poop and pee with their hands! ( using medical exam gloves and disposing of all after)
Oh my god, sorry to double post. After my initial horror I told my partner this one and they were like "dude, yours is gross but that one is PURPOSEFUL. 80% chance that person has a weird fetish and is video taping you picking poop up with your hands."
Nope nope nope nope.
I don't see any reason to assume the spoon is used for food. However, I'm also not that knowledgeable about cats. Assuming every single dish is washed thoroughly is there still a danger simply because the dishes were in the sink at the same time?
So, it's kind of like if you had some cloth baby diapers and you washed them in the sink with your dishes.
Sure, I suppose it's possible you are, after the diapers are cleaned and sanitized, then washing and bleaching all the literal fecal matter off of the sink and dishes, but if you're already someone who didn't think "maybe I shouldn't combine these things in the first place" do you really think that's what they're doing?
I see you commented three times which makes me wonder if you are this person or if you do this so I'm going to like baby steps this out for you.
Yes you can absolutely wash your litter scoop.
Things you should not do:
1) put actual fecal matter in contact with the other dishes. Remember when you wash dishes with soap, you are NOT sanitizing the dishes, you're only getting food particles and oil off. No one is washing their dishes expecting that the dishes came into contact with literal shit. If your dishes came into contact with literal shit, they need to be washed much more thoroughly than how you normally wash them.
2) cross contaminate a biohazard with food. This is common sense. Don't cross contaminate biohazard shit with food shit. The food area where you wash and prep your food should not have biohazards in it.
3) If your food area does have biohazards in it, please bleach it thoroughly before going back to food.
I hope that this helps!
I don’t have a cat so I don’t own cat litter nor a litter scoop.
But if I did, where would I wash it? In the bathtub? 😂
As long as you never leave any dishes sitting in the sink, it should be good. Use one scrub for the litter scoop and the other one for your own dishes you use for food 😝
I personally would use the bathroom sink and then sanitize the bowl afterward!
You absolutely could do the second suggestion though as long as you bleached it after, but that is a hypothetical that did not apply to this situation LOL. If only the sink had been empty, yes.
Ummm… the bathroom, the spicket outside, the washroom if you have one. I either use the outside spicket or my apartment complex has a dog washing area so I bring all my litter stuff down there to scrub out every 2 weeks.
A slotted metal spoon is traditionally used for food, like to scoop peas. The fact that it's kept in the kitchen sink with the other dishes implies it serves multiple uses.
Yeah! Even if she only uses it for litter, the fact that she puts it in the sink with the dishes she does eat with and where she prepares food is horribly gross. I eat a lot of raw veggies and fruit so I'd be afraid of water splashing back onto my food with traces of feces and urine.
Still shouldn’t go in the sink with other dishes. Litter clumps when wet and can stick to crevices of other things. I keep my scoop in a small trash can with a liner right by the box, it could hold a slotted kitchen spoon just as easily… it’s not that hard to be sanitary and not cross contaminate with the most minuscule efforts. Scoop the waste into the liner, tie it up, put a new liner in, put the scoop back in there.
She's been weirdly picky too, so I'm dropping her after these visits are done, so I'm not exactly impressed with this person overall. She sent me this several paragraph request for detailed notes about what the cat is doing and more pictures, which sounds fine on the surface until you look at my rover card where I send an average of 6 pics per 30 minutes and ALREADY include a huge write up of what happened. How many more pictures could she want??
Also no offense to her cat but her cat is so boring. She's extremely sweet but she only wants pets, not to play or anything, so they're all basically the same picture of different angles of me petting her.
‘Not as disgusting as it sounds’. 😭 but it is as disgusting as it sounds.
How could it be MORE disgusting is what I want to know.
More disgusting: a client puts her scooper in her dishwasher with dishes that she eats from.
I'm literally never eating food at anyone else's house ever again.
At the time I was in a group chat with cat owning friends. So I asked what they thought, thinking they’d be as horrified as I was. But no. They didn’t think it was a problem as long as the dishwasher was hot.
Theres a lot of things that are technically completely safe to do but are just subjectively disgusting. I mean we think poop is inherently grosser than other stuff but like everything else, its still just organic material and bacteria lol.
I mean, okay. Like, I know LOGICALLY that is probably true. Washing something is washing something, if you bleach the sink afterwards, sure, blah blah, but c'mon. It's forever dirty LOL.
I am pretty free when it comes to a lot of things but anything with cat litter near my kitchen sink is an ultimate NO. I had a friend who was offended that I used my silverware to scoop out cat FOOD from the can but that’s food and not nasty waste with chemically infused sand which can clog in unknown places in a dishwasher. What the actual f…
My dad freaked out on me for using a bowl to mix my cats food claiming it would smell like it forever… it was a ceramic bowl
wait so this actually happened? this is not just you thinking of something worse?
I was told I could find the scooper in the dishwasher. And that is where I found it. And there were other dishes in it. I was also told that I could run it again if I needed to after a few days.
oh no. oh God.
That’s when I go home and fetch my own stuff.
I don’t even use the same sponges/brushes to clean their bowls!!
That's pretty bad but my mother put her ashtrays in the dishwasher 🤢
Uggh. Guaranteed you would be able to taste that in a glass of water or whatever. But if you’re a smoker, it’s about how much you really care.
Can confirm it was terrible 😄
I can taste this comment 😭
Oh no. NO. Newp. Unh uhhhhh.
NO
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Why a slotted spoon and not a poop scoop? 😭 I can’t imagine one is cheaper than the other.
Why not just have a poop scoop AND a slotted spoon? We aren't talking a $100 purchase here people haha....like a $10 poop scoop...
I’ve actually seen scoops on chewy for like $1!
Way less than $10, mine was like $3 and I’ve had it for 4 years.
I had a client who used a slotted spoon for a litter scooper. She was my worst client honestly, but the kitty was my favorite pet I’ve sat for so even though she left a 5 star review, it was all mixed up and she thanked me for taking such good care of her cat, I would never work with her again.
It would be OK to use a designated slotted spoon instead of a tool specifically designed to scoop litter but the leaving it in with other dishes they eat with and where food is prepared is gross (as is the case with OP's). Was your client's home clean otherwise? The client who had their litter boxes right up against their baking supplies had so much fur everywhere I had to vacuum everything (even the lamp shades) because I couldn't breathe. That place made me afraid to eat food from anyone whose home I haven't seen yet ever again.
Who wants her signature chili next week? Any takers??
Yea I feel like it's more disgusting than it sounds cause why is it in the sink to be cleaned? Is she using it for cooking too? I don't clean my shit scoopers
So even if you use the kitchen sink for this, which you know, you can sterilize, you get that done and sterilized, you don't just leave it sitting there!
This is what’s bothering me. I don’t have a mud room sink or laundry room like the kitchen sink is it. So I can understand cleaning it there and then cleaning the sink after but why is it just SITTING THERE
I clean them with the outside hose and a specified scrubber just for the litter box.
I clean mine but I do it in my MUD ROOM sink where I wash my cats butts and the dog. The thought of cleaning it where I clean my dishes makes me sick. 🤢
Yes! I use my outside hose because I’ve done it in my bathtub once and that litter will clog up your drains and get in crevices with particles. Just nope, it all goes outside with a designated scrubber.
I feel like this is the entire reason for the existence of basement utility sinks and yard hoses
what’s her address i have 3 extra scoops i don’t use i’ll literally send her all of them if she would never do this again
I am fckin cackling
my jaw just fell open
Hopefully not into the litter box, I mean sink
Annnnnd this is how we know a client’s owner has toxoplasmosis. Barf city.
Omg. So recently my partner and I took our small dog and our cat and worked remote in Mexico for two months. Our pets travelled in the cabin with us and it was a short direct flight from Vancouver. We obviously had to buy a litter box and scoop right away since we didn’t bring one with us. Well when we got to the store we could not find a cat scoop for the LIFE OF US. We figured they were sold out, and it was late and we were tired but needed a solution. So we picked up a giant metal serving spoon to make do for the next bit till we could find one. Let me tell you, this was a TASK!! We checked multiple stores, every single time we were out. We HATED using the metal serving spoon and complained every day when we scooped her litter. We found one THREE weeks into our trip (at the first store, so indeed they were sold out) and I have never been so happy to see a proper litter scoop in my life. I cannot fathom that they use that regularly… and that it’s IN THE SINK
Yeppppp I was forced to use it because what else was I going to do and it was awful. If only there was some sort of cheap, plastic tool designed for this task.
IF ONLY!! Also, it’s not effective AT ALL. I feel your pain.
this gave me a good laugh😂
She is defensive about it right off the bat, so others have pointed out to her that it’s disgusting. She just doesn’t agree, “it’s not as disgusting as it sounds”
My roommate is oblivious to the cat scooper issues. I was washing a pan and she tosses the rubber mat under the cat litter box in the sink and says here, please give this a quick wash. I really don’t care one way or the other about an extra task because we trade off, but jesuz that’s gross. I have to carefully pick my words & tone or she’s mortally offended, and loses the message for the tone it’s delivered. I said anything cat litter related, if you don’t have time to deal with cleaning anything related to cat stuff, put it in my tub so I can. Nothing in the dang kitchen sink!!! (removing my exclamation marks in the verbal delivery). Then I proceed to sanitize the sink AGAIN after just doing it.
My husband has put the freaking toilet plunger in the sink before and sees absolutely no problem with it. I'm so glad to hear I'm not crazy for not wanting things that touch poop in the kitchen sink!!!
Yeah that's a big no for me. All litter related items get washed outside at my house
I would, but I’m in an apartment several floors up. I use pet clean up times to follow up with a top down bathroom cleaning too. Lots of bleach and elbow grease.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
This is why I built a pet care station in the back of my car. Metal poop scoop for the litter box and all.
This was my step dad using the bbq tongs for dog poop one day. Mum and I never told him leave something outside so fast
STOP
I WAS HORRIFIED. It been years and those still aren’t aloud to enter the house anymore
She might be a sweetheart but not sweet enough to be eating poop 🤮 Can't unsee this ever I get grossed out hearing the roomba sucking up little bits of cat litter but this is exponentially worse.
I love this subreddit, never a dull moment 😂
Please tell me is a designated spoon just for cat sand and it never gets mixed up with the actual dishes (just saying that is weird)
All I can tell you is it was in the kitchen sink with all the other dishes.
Ohhhhhh noooooo
A scoop is literally 1 dollar
Lol…this is a new one for me
I’m telling myself it was brand new.. never used… yea…
OH MY GOD.
Wait! WUT???????
Gah! I've seen some stupid shit over the years, and some disgusting things that still haunt my nightmares, but THIS...just WHY?
I have a client who uses large serving spoons as scoopers. They've had several cats for years. I always thought it was odd, but then again I've never seen them around the sink or any place other than the litter box areas.
Oh hell no! Remind yourself to NEVER eat in that place 🤮
I may be able to top this one… I have a client that does NOT OWN a scooper… one must pick up the poop and pee with their hands! ( using medical exam gloves and disposing of all after)
NO
Oh my god, sorry to double post. After my initial horror I told my partner this one and they were like "dude, yours is gross but that one is PURPOSEFUL. 80% chance that person has a weird fetish and is video taping you picking poop up with your hands." Nope nope nope nope.
I don't see any reason to assume the spoon is used for food. However, I'm also not that knowledgeable about cats. Assuming every single dish is washed thoroughly is there still a danger simply because the dishes were in the sink at the same time?
So, it's kind of like if you had some cloth baby diapers and you washed them in the sink with your dishes. Sure, I suppose it's possible you are, after the diapers are cleaned and sanitized, then washing and bleaching all the literal fecal matter off of the sink and dishes, but if you're already someone who didn't think "maybe I shouldn't combine these things in the first place" do you really think that's what they're doing?
She sounds absolutely normal
Like you gotta wash the litter scoop at some point
I see you commented three times which makes me wonder if you are this person or if you do this so I'm going to like baby steps this out for you. Yes you can absolutely wash your litter scoop. Things you should not do: 1) put actual fecal matter in contact with the other dishes. Remember when you wash dishes with soap, you are NOT sanitizing the dishes, you're only getting food particles and oil off. No one is washing their dishes expecting that the dishes came into contact with literal shit. If your dishes came into contact with literal shit, they need to be washed much more thoroughly than how you normally wash them. 2) cross contaminate a biohazard with food. This is common sense. Don't cross contaminate biohazard shit with food shit. The food area where you wash and prep your food should not have biohazards in it. 3) If your food area does have biohazards in it, please bleach it thoroughly before going back to food. I hope that this helps!
I don’t have a cat so I don’t own cat litter nor a litter scoop. But if I did, where would I wash it? In the bathtub? 😂 As long as you never leave any dishes sitting in the sink, it should be good. Use one scrub for the litter scoop and the other one for your own dishes you use for food 😝
I personally would use the bathroom sink and then sanitize the bowl afterward! You absolutely could do the second suggestion though as long as you bleached it after, but that is a hypothetical that did not apply to this situation LOL. If only the sink had been empty, yes.
Where do you wash your bathroom cleaning supplies? You got a poop knife that goes in the kitchen sink or something?
Ummm… the bathroom, the spicket outside, the washroom if you have one. I either use the outside spicket or my apartment complex has a dog washing area so I bring all my litter stuff down there to scrub out every 2 weeks.
I don’t get it. How would you be horrified?
A slotted metal spoon is traditionally used for food, like to scoop peas. The fact that it's kept in the kitchen sink with the other dishes implies it serves multiple uses.
Yeah! Even if she only uses it for litter, the fact that she puts it in the sink with the dishes she does eat with and where she prepares food is horribly gross. I eat a lot of raw veggies and fruit so I'd be afraid of water splashing back onto my food with traces of feces and urine.
Oh that makes sense! Maybe she only used it for the litter who knows lol
Still shouldn’t go in the sink with other dishes. Litter clumps when wet and can stick to crevices of other things. I keep my scoop in a small trash can with a liner right by the box, it could hold a slotted kitchen spoon just as easily… it’s not that hard to be sanitary and not cross contaminate with the most minuscule efforts. Scoop the waste into the liner, tie it up, put a new liner in, put the scoop back in there.
We can only hope!
Lmao lol 😂
Let’s hope she was leaving in a hurry and couldn’t find the litter scoop so she was like let me just use this brand new slotted scoop real quick. 😂
I'm going to be wondering if this woman serves her guests with this spoon for the rest of my life.
Oh goodness! I didn’t think about it like that. But now that you brought it up, you’ve put this image in my head that I can’t get rid of atm 🤮
She's been weirdly picky too, so I'm dropping her after these visits are done, so I'm not exactly impressed with this person overall. She sent me this several paragraph request for detailed notes about what the cat is doing and more pictures, which sounds fine on the surface until you look at my rover card where I send an average of 6 pics per 30 minutes and ALREADY include a huge write up of what happened. How many more pictures could she want?? Also no offense to her cat but her cat is so boring. She's extremely sweet but she only wants pets, not to play or anything, so they're all basically the same picture of different angles of me petting her.
how would you not be? this is disgusting
Oh wait! She didn’t mention there was dishes sitting in the sink though lol