How to sterilize dishes beside gold-plated trim, BEFORE they walk contained by the dishwasher? Special object.....? My daughter used our best Christmas china bowls to feed a possum...

My daughter used our best Christmas china bowls to feed a possum and a racoon contained by the backyard. While I admire her concern for wildlife during the drought (and no lectures on potential rabies or property destruction please....I know adjectives that, and now she does too), I'm wondering if we should ever use these dishes again. They are dishwasher sheltered although they have a gold ingots trim around the edge, but I don't want to put them surrounded by the dishwasher with our other dishes until they've be sterilized first.
However, if I put them down in buckets of bleach or anything, I'm afraid it might damage the trim. What's the mother of Ellie May Clampett to do????? Would you pitch them, or try to salvage? (This have been going on for several weeks formerly I discovered it, and the dishes look pretty gross - caked with dirt and who know what all.)
(No smart alecky answers please....)
Answers:    1. First of adjectives you shouldn't be putting dishes with gold ingots plated trim in the dishwasher. It can etch and tarnish the trim.

2. You don't involve to sanitize them. The dishwasher will do this for you. Many dishwashers even have a cycle made specifically for this purpose, it's call Sani-Rinse.

3. Washing them by hand near a little baking soda as an stabilizer will adequately go and get rid of harmful germs
You might try putting vinegar and marine, up to the gold rim, but not touching it and permit it set for a while, after you have wipe with a drizzling cloth all the dirt stale.