From Scientific American.com Weekly Review (13 Mar 2007 issue): <quote>
STRANGE BUT TRUE: Cats Cannot Taste Sweets There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely. </quote> I read this when I had just gotten home from doing some shopping and was the better part of two hours past Midnight's normal supper time. One of the first things I did after walking in the door was open a can of "meaty wet food" (veal) and put it in his dish. He didn't touch it but immediately tried to cover it up with a plastic shopping bag. I then sat down to read e-mail, and the aforementioned newsletter was one of the first things which I read after I had opened a package of apple turnovers I had gotten at the bakery department of a grocery store I had stopped at. When I opened the package, he immediately jumped up and pushed his nose in and licked the sugar off each and every one of the turnovers. Perhaps he could not read the newsletter and didn't know that he was supposed to eat the "meaty wet food" and "disdain [the] sugar entirely." Or perhaps he was following a higher law of being a cat: to do the opposite of what he is expected to do . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
