accidentally discovered that while this cat doesn't care for most fruit, dried apricots are apparently the tastiest cat snack ever. i haven't seen her that excited about *meat*. this is apparently A Thinghttps://thecatsite.com/threads/apricot-eating-cat.110984/ …
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Replying to @whitequark
is it still believed that cats have feeble sweet gustatory reception?
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Replying to @pthagnar
as of 2005 i think the consensus is they lack it completely https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16103917
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Replying to @pthagnar
"A functional sweet-taste receptor heteromer cannot form, and thus the cat lacks the receptor likely necessary for detection of sweet stimuli. This molecular change was very likely an important event in the evolution of the cat's carnivorous behavior." dunno they're fine i think
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Replying to @whitequark
hard to imagine what dried apricots would taste like without the sweetness
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if you *really* wanted you could probably find a human with a knockout of this gene and ask them
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