Cats
My own research has led me to conclude that cats have little or no sense of taste and judge food purely by smell and instinct. Consider the evidence:

Cat food has a powerful smell and appears to be 'tasty' from a human point of view, what with its rabbit and chicken and liver and whatever. But cats will just as happily eat a raw mouse, a dead bird or a meatball that I threw out of the window three weeks ago. Where's their discerning taste buds now? And they lick their own posteriors ... and their feet - can't they taste them?

I once tried a new brand of cat food on a cat. It wouldn't eat it and just left it untouched in the bowl. But after three days of not being fed, the cat soon developed a taste for it - fussy little shit. I've seen cats lick up spilled pepper, too, with no ill effects.

They'd eat their owners as well if you dropped dead and there was no-one to feed them - which puts vegetarianism into a new perspective.
(frankspencer, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 9:08, closed)