• johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s incredible to think they don’t mind given that people say how good dog’s sense of smell (and taste?) is.

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      1 year ago

      i’ll be the fun fact guy: they have incredible senses of smell but way less taste buds than us hoomans so that correlates into “does it have a STRONK ODOR? ok i eat dat” so it’s almost like flavor isn’t part of the equation with dogs (or at least obviously not the first priority.)

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      1 year ago

      It’s probably more complicated than that. They eat cat turds because of high nitrates, which are actually fairly nutritious for dogs