Sad For Kitties

Cats may love treats flavored with tuna and salmon, but cookies and ice cream they can live without.  The "Los Angeles Times" reports scientists have discovered that a sweet-taste receptor in cats is faulty and doesn't work.  Previous studies have shown that cats don't like sugar.  Researchers offered cats plain water and water flavored with sugar, and the felines drank equally from both.  Later studies at a zoo showed the same results for lions, leopards, tigers and jaguars.  The scientists theorize that cats' extreme carnivorous lifestyle makes it unnecessary to sense sugar.  That would allow mutations to add up in the sweet-taste receptor during the animal's evolution.  Veterinarian James Richards from Cornell University says a sweet receptor in cats would be like people, quote, "having a taste receptor for wood."  The study is in the journal "Public Library of Science Genetics."

I'd have to dispute this, the way little Graylynn takes to ice cream......

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