Yes, you should be washing your dog’s water and food bowl every day. Just like your own dishes, a dirty bowl can be a breeding ground for illness-causing microbes. So use very hot, soapy water and scrub with a sponge to get the bowl clean. It’s also a good idea to invest in a bowl made from a nonporous material like stainless steel to prevent microbes from growing in the kind of hard-to-clean scratches commonly found on plastic bowls.
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