My responses to people who ask me if I'm worried about bacterias etc.,
are something like this.
Did you ever have a BBQ for 20-30 people at your house, where you were cooking chicken, ribs, burgers etc? Do you sterilized everything moreso, just because of the quanity? The only differance is that you are feeding it to your dogs. You have just as much, watery/blood residue-greasey fatty-slimey stuff. You just have more to clean up from.
Do you have a kibble feed dog? Do you wash their bowl, clean the floor each time after they eat?
Do you wash their feet everytime they come in from the outdoors, where they probably ran through "crap and pee"?
Do you wash your dogs mouth out everytime he comes in from the outdoors, because there is a chance he ate some poop and then came in a gave you a sloobery lick?
The answers have always been , "well no".
My RFD bowls are cleaned more than the kibble fed, becaue they are fed in the kitchen where the dishwasher is and where the sink is and I'm too damned lazy to go and get the kibble fed bowls from the mudroom which is right next to the kitchen. My RFD dogs eat on a towel, which goes in the washer every 3-4 days when we do some laundry. We don't mop the mudroom floor every 3-4 days unless it gets muddy/dirty from going outside. My god the drool just from the boxer eating must be spawning billions of bacteria out there.
A dog will drink out of the toilet, unless you shut the lid. A toilet is an Ecoli factory as those bacterias are already in us and when we crap them out they thrive in the toilet and smudge marks and little splatters.
Recent article I read talked about how Norway has the lowest rate of serious bacterial infections as the medical profession is urged to not provide antibiotics and to discourage the use of antiseptic sprays etc., because repeated uses is what causes resistency and mutation in bacterias. Also it is not a bad thing for a normal healthy person to get a "bug" as our body produces the best short and long term protection and will even provide a degree of protection to a mutated bacteria of a similar type.
Well sorry for the long rant, but I was on a roll.:biggrin: