My two dogs have been shirking their responsibilities all these years! http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-11-22/woof-to-wash-to-make-lives-easier/
My wife's just said she'll have to get me trained up to use it first, mate, before we start training the dogs!
Watched that last night. Excellent idea apart from the one massive and obvious flaw. You wash your laundry to clean, amongst other things, the dog slobber out of it. So it's nice and clean, sitting in the washing machine. Then the dog takes it out of the machine with its mouth and all the dog slobber is back on the stuff you've just washed.
Will my slobber be acceptable? This is assuming I manage to find this mythical artefact in the kitchen called a washing machine!