Most cats are full of curiosity, especially what our human food tastes like, and they won't let go of the opportunity to taste delicious food. Therefore, in the house of the shit shoveling officer with cats, there are often scenes where cats snatch food. If the shit shoveling officer is not strong enough and the defense is not tight enough, then the success rate of the cat snatching food will be greatly increased.

When cats go through a fierce battle for food and finally taste the taste of food, they are likely to have a strong interest in this kind of food, and they will still see this kind of food next time. Dare to snatch food in the hands of the shit shovel officer.

If the shit shoveling officer is a sugar addict, he must have been snatched from his mouth by his cat owner, and he might have found that he had hidden candy and was found by the cat when he got home. Came out and ate it all.

For a cat who likes to grab candy with him so much, the shit shoveling officer must feel that his furry child must be as addicted to sugar as he is. Isn't there such a sentence, It's not that the family does not enter the house, the cat must have the same preferences as the shit shovel officer before being brought home by the shit shovel officer.

But cats don't actually like the sweet taste like the shit shoveling officer, so they will go all out to grab the shit shovel officer's candy, because they don't know what sweetness is.

You read that right, cats don't know what sweetness is, they don't feel sweetness in their palate, they like candy just because the smell of candy is exactly what they like If the smell of candy is not what they like, they are very likely to turn a blind eye to the candy.

So why can't cats taste sweetness?

We all know that in order to know the taste of a certain food, we must taste it with our tongues, so that we can know how the food tastes.

The tongue is actually a large taste receptor. The food we eat is initially felt through the tongue, and then the taste is transmitted to our cerebral cortex through nerves, so we can know what the food we eat is. What does it taste like. The taste receptors that can sense sweetness are composed of two special genes to generate two proteins, and these two genes exist in most mammals, and cats also have these two genes. But its genes are not complete, but defective. Although cats with defective genes can still make proteins, the proteins they make don’t combine to form sweet taste receptors in the same way that our intact genes make proteins.

The inability to have sweet taste receptors precludes cats from being able to taste what sweetness is like, so it's not because they like the sweet taste that they like candy. The five flavors we often talk about refer to the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty. Except for the sweet taste that cats cannot taste, the other four tastes can be felt normally by cats.

Cats that don't feel sweet have a special ability, and this ability is unmatched by other animals, this ability is that they can taste what water tastes like. When we were young, we must have wondered what water tastes like, and we will taste the taste of water carefully, but no matter how we taste it, we have not come to the conclusion that water tastes in the end.

A question that has puzzled us for years is an extremely simple answer for cats, because they can draw conclusions with just a little water, but they know how water is. A taste, but we can't get the answer from their mouths, it seems that this question will continue to haunt us. In fact, cats still lack an enzyme that can digest sugar in their bodies, which means that they cannot eat foods high in sugar for a long time, because their bodies cannot break down sugar on their own.

If too much sugar is accumulated in the cat's body, it will cause harm to their body, and even cause serious diseases.

What problems can cats cause if they eat high-sugar foods?

1. Poisoning

Generally speaking, chocolate is a food with high sugar content. It is a relatively convenient food that can supplement sugar in a short time, but chocolate is a food that cats can't touch at all.

Cats can't eat chocolate, not only because of the high sugar content in chocolate, but also because the theobromine and caffeine contained in chocolate can cause toxic reactions in cats.

2. Diabetes

Cats lack an enzyme that breaks down sugar, which makes them less likely to eat a lot of high-sugar foods. The method converts sugar into other nutrients, and it accumulates in the cat's body.

When the sugar in the cat's body accumulates to a certain level, it will increase the workload of the cat's pancreas, which will make the burden of the pancreas become heavy, thus greatly increasing the risk of diabetes in the cat.

3. Kidney Failure

Similarly, when the sugar content in the cat's body is too high, their kidneys need to spend a lot of energy to break it down and convert it , The kidneys that have been in a high-intensity work environment will be exhausted. Once a cat's kidneys are exhausted, it means that their kidneys have reached the end of their lifespan, which is what we understand as a symptom of kidney failure.

Cats love candy not because of the sweet taste, but because of the smell in the candy, but no matter how much cats like candy, we should try to avoid letting them eat the candy we eat . If the shit shovel officer can’t see the pitiful appearance of cats greedy for candy, we can actually buy candy specially produced for cats, so that cats can taste the candy they miss, and we don’t have to worry about cats getting sick from eating too much candy.

In fact, no matter what we feed cats, we should pay attention to the amount. We must not indulge cats as much as they want, because temporary indulgence is likely to cause a lifetime of regret.

In fact, we should treat cats like a child without self-protection. Only by taking good care of the cat's daily life can the cat grow up healthily and accompany us all the time.

If we inadvertently let the cat's life have hidden dangers within the safe range, then we are very likely to cause this or that problem to the cat's body. would like to see things. In order to avoid things that will make cats miserable and make us regret, we should be careful enough in our daily life!