I dropped a yogurt and it went all over the floor and up the door what a mess!! I called both dogs and they licked it all up in seconds :-) One less job for me and the dogs enjoyed it.

Sometimes i look at their dinner bowls and realise that 2 of mine are aptly middle named as 'fairy liquid' and 'dyson'.

Dishwashers, hoovers...all leave a carbon footprint, pooches don't

Now....how can this be patented as the way of the future?

LOL - I make yoghurt in a 1 litre pot and my OH dropped the pot by the fridge once - the dogs do help clear the mess up ! :) :)

LOL  I regularly put down pots to be cleaned out.  Once I put the dutch oven down, wasn't ready to wash it yet so put it back on my counter.  Next day I made beef stew, there's the dutch oven nice and handy.  Part way through browning the beef I thought, "Uh, oh!"  Oh well, how much harm can a little dog spit do when it's cooked?  :)  But I sure did not tell the OH.

Lol and I bet it was the best stew he ever tasted.haha

:-D The 'clean' command is one of my own special training commands that I teach, due to such accidents happening, with children and me around it is needed quite a bit. ;-)

LOL  'Clean' command?  ? 

I just call "Girls!"  And they come running :-D   They don't need a second invitation :-)

This morning it was uncooked cheesy scrambled egg :-D   all down the cupboard and dripping on the floor.   My oldest knows what "ahh  nooo!!!  !" means LOL  so it barely hit the floor.   All nice and clean in seconds :-)

I had a cat who was crazy about yogurt.  It was his treat for taking his pills (vet prescribed medicine) without a fuss.  He´d have helped the dogs clear up.  In fact he probably would have told the dogs to get lost until he´d eaten his fill.

I just call "Girls!"  And they come running    They don't need a second invitation 

:-D Well yes, that will do........ Bet many dogs just hover around the kitchen whenever someone's in it.... just in case. ;-)

I use the command 'Clean'  though because (me being me.... ) sometimes hot things or things that can be saved **wink, wink** get spilt, so I don't want dogs just diving in thinking they can anytime something falls, some of the family dogs don't even chew :-D so they only clean up if I give the command, otherwise they have to sit and wait or walk away with nothing. ;-)

Our dogs certainly have their uses lol.

How do people without dogs cope when they drop stuff? They must have to do a lot of cleaning!!

> The 'clean' command is one of my own special training commands that I teach

I teach "Hoover!"

I just tell them 'leave it'  if it's something they can't/mustn't have :-)     great reinforcement of a command, and means they really listen if I say it when out on a walk :-)

I have one bitch who tests hot things with her paws to see if they're cool enough, but the other one would just bolt it and burn ;-)

when I was albeit briefly without a dog I was quite puzzled as to why my floors needed sweeping so often and how you cleared up certain messes lol
Mine all queue up to wait for yoghurts if we are eating them and as for cheese well they can hear cheese being cut at a hundred paces

Willow loves the day I look after my little grandaughter and she's on high chair patrol!!

Someone dropped a whole carton of 12 eggs when I was grocery shopping on Friday.  The carton split open and the eggs spilled out.  A poor staff lady was on her hands and knees trying to contain the mess and clean it up.  As I went by I commented to her, "You need a dog."  She glared at me. 

LOL

I well remember the look of horror on my ( then ) non dog owning friends face, when she saw my dogs having a lick at the dishes in the dishwasher. Roll on a year when she had her own dog, and guess what, her dog was doing the exact same thing !.
I like to think I trained her well lol.

> when she saw my dogs having a lick at the dishes in the dishwasher

Definitely not allowed for my dogs :) :) :) Clearing up spillages on the floor is different :)

We call it a pre-wash in our house!

My sister let her dog do that but she put her sharp knives in the dishwasher.  I told her it was dangerous and it took years but he did eventually get a cut on his tongue.  Thankfully a minor one.  My objection to the practice stems from observations at her house.  Her dog did not distinguish between clean and dirty dishes. 

I have managed to instil the habit in 7 dogs over the last 10 years that when they hear me chopping they come and sit in the kitchen.  They all get tops and tails off carrots and any spillages as I chop!  I have never even tried just shows they will learn a rewarding behaviour incredibly solidly!  In fact at one point even the two cats would come in there too, although the cats were more interested in cereal.  Neither were pests but one particularly would just hang about in the hope a bit of milk was left for her.

And they are great for spillages too, also flying insects and the like in the house are soon exterminated!

I always put the sharp knives at the back of the cutlery section where they can't easily reach. Also of course have to be careful where I put the plates with chocolate pudding remains on! :-D

Ouch !
Our cutlery is on the top shelf, so isn't within reach.

> when she saw my dogs having a lick at the dishes in the dishwasher.

While I am getting things ready to put in the dishwasher my Border Collie licks plates and anything that looks as if it still has tasty gravy left on it.

Then you bend down to see a dog at the back of the dishwasher.  Actually inside it.   Chihuahua naturally.

Well, I'll fess up too. Don't let the dogs in the dishwasher but I have a very clean high chair!

I don't like the dogs licking anything that's already in the dishwasher (as they can't be expected to tell the difference between dirty and freshly washed) but they're quite welcome to give things a 'pre-wash' before they go in! After all if you have something like a casserole dish, it's the only way to get it clean ;-)

> as they can't be expected to tell the difference between dirty and freshly washed

Mine can. Just a cursory sniff of the clean versus a wash of the dirty ones. Mine have absolutely zero interest in licking clean plates

> Mine have absolutely zero interest in licking clean plates

I prefer to rely on the dogs knowing that the dishwasher is out-of-bounds - it also helps the dogs knowing that food is only eaten when they are told to - no 'stealing' allowed anywhere ! :)

>After all if you have something like a casserole dish, it's the only way to get it clean ;-)

Smiling at that!  Earlier this week I made a chicken casserole, and it was moreish.  I live alone, so often make this to last 2 days.  On the 2nd day I left it a little too long and some lentils just caught on the bottom of the pan.  I had my second helping, and groaned at the thought of getting out a brillo pad. 

I put the stock pot on the floor and went out to get the washing off the line.  I was smiling when I came back into the kitchen.  It was so easy for me to wash after.  :-)

Mine can tell too - they do go to sniff at the plates, but we say 'clean' and they soon learn that means it's not worth them investigating.