Have you ever tasted your pet's food? (lemmy.world)

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Looking past the recent vegan drama, have you ever wondered why your pet might not like particular foods? Have you ever actually tasted the food yourself?

I have, and some taste more like a chemistry lab than actual nutrition.

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[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Animals don't taste the same way we do. For example, cats don't have the receptors for tasting sweet things...so they can barely detect sweetness at all.

Dogs only have 25% as many taste buds as humans, so most things have a very mutes taste for them. Plus, every dog I've ever had absolutely LOVED cat shit covered in kitty litter, so I never put much faith in their sense of taste.

Yeah, they'll have flavors they like more or less, just like us, but even we can't trust our sense of taste as a metric for nutrition...if we could, we'd all be addicted to brocolli and spinach instead of processes foods and sugar.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

How do you know that the only reason you don't like cat shit is because you have a cultural revulsion to it?

My wife fucking loves coagulated blood. Like just big old chunks of blood which was packed into casings and boiled until it became a massive chunk of scab. Meanwhile I legit cannot be in the same room with it. As far as I'm concerned it might as well be cat shit

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I recall seeing in a special card at a Chinese restaurant “Pigs Blood with Mixed Vegetable”. Sounds awful to me but some people must like it.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

black pudding? white pudding?

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I’d say I love spinach just as much as sugar and processed food chomps on corncob pipe

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Guess what?

If my dog refuses to eat what's supposed to be a dog treat, and I try it and it tastes like a chemistry lab, then I think me and my dog both agree it tastes more like chemicals and more toxic than garbage.

Even if humans and animals have different taste buds, if the food tastes wrong, ain't nobody gonna eat it.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago

I also wouldn't know what my dog thinks of the taste of cat shit, as that's not on his menu. Not sure where that thought came from even, that's not even food.

I'm referring to actual food products for pets. If the pet doesn't like it, there's probably a reason why, and that reason is likely that companies tend to make substandard foods not suitable for human consumption for pets.

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

lmao nobody feeds their dog cat shit. but they try to eat it anyway because they are dogs and they'll eat a dirty diaper if you don't throw it away out of reach. smh

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I had a Jack Russell who was crazy about eating out of the litterbox. Just horrifying, obviously. Maybe it tastes like meat, idk, who knows what it smells like to a dog.

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