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I mean, animals don't necessarily experience taste in the same ways humans do. What tastes terrible to me may still be very appealing to a dog or cat etc., regardless of taste.
The way my dog licks his balls you'd think they taste really good, but they didn't taste great to me
A dog eats poop. That might as well say that taste is experienced very differently.
You got a dumbass dog then, our adopted stray dog won't even shit anywhere near our apartment, let alone try eating it..
I’ve licked some good balls before tbh
Thanks 👍
That's not true! That dog's balls tasted average, at worst.
If you could reach yours, you would too
He's just asking for a favor bro
Exactly. We like sweet things as this is our way to detect glucose for our brain; salty things for minerals, etc. Our pets diets are different, so are their taste preferences. Iirc, a totally blunt piece of dried food tastes great for a cat, since they seek protein more than anything.
Yup, cats can't taste sweetness for that reason, while birds don't have receptors for spice and can eat chillies easily.
That's just the taste buds themselves, additionally:
I have the cilantro soap gene. Never heard of the taste of parsley being affected the same way.
That's why hospital food seemed so next level bland, everything smelled like "clean."
True. Still, have you ever tasted a chemistry set?
I did when I was 10 years old. It's a wonder I'm still alive. Raw chemicals are not nutrition.
sugar is a "raw chemical" 🤓
Go eat a dog biscuit. Some of them taste worse than cardboard soaked in ammonia.
why did you eat cardboard soaked in ammonia
I didn't outright eat that, but I had a chemistry set when I was a kid..
i don't think dog vomit is particularly yummy and probably tastes pretty chemically but dogs tuck into that shit like it's le cordon bleu
Maybe these “chemicals” are the flavour the dog wants tho, I imagine it’s kinda like a really concentrated gravy?
I don’t imagine flavour has that much to do with nutrition, in fact it’s probably lacking in nutrition if it has no flavour.
Have you ever mixed hard kibble with soft food, only to watch your dog literally pick out all the hard kibble and only eat the soft food? And yes, before anyone asks, his teeth are fine.
The hard food (at least that particular brand) tastes fucking awful.
What constitues chemicals for you? I agree with your point- if your dog doesn't like the treat and you find it tastes unnatural, I agree it's maybe a bad treat/crappy quality treat.
But "chemical" is not really a descriptor for taste- everything is chemicals. Sugar is a chemical. There are chemicals in natural foods such as meats, veggies, fruits, it's all chemicals. I think you're trying to say that the treats taste unnatural or overly processed?
Maybe you're right, maybe 'chemical' wasn't the best way to describe it. I can definitely agree that those treats tasted completely unnatural.
I mean like they taste like they were soaked in diesel fuel and dried out unnatural. That's why I described it as a chemical taste.