"Cats Cannot Taste Sweets" link to article

Link to an article about cats and their inability to taste sweets:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...28FBBB0352D1C3

Yeah right - tell that to Charlie - he loves sweets - fruits/fruit juice and a little nibble of cookie or pudding!

No one told Pumpkin because his favorite treat is Golden Oreos and his second favorite is white cake. He'll climb up on me to get them.

That is odd. Popsie loves sweet things as well. I was suprised when I found out he liked plain doughnuts.

Of course cats wouldn't notice something flavored with just sugar.
Think of our cats that munch on or try to steal something sweet, it's usually a baked good - cookies, ice cream - dairy, fruit. There are other flavors there too.
Not to mention that a cat can smell.
The study left a lot out to be able to declare "most cat lovers don't have to worry about Simon snatching their unattended dessert."

Saying that cats can't taste sweets because they lack the proper genes for sweet receptors is just theory. We don't know and can't know what cats taste. We CAN observe their behavior and many cats definitely show an affinity for sweet things by displaying the appropriate behavior. So, although something sweet may taste entirely different to a cat than it tastes to us, I firmly believe they are sensing something pleasurable because that's the behavior that results.

As an example, Rocket hates tacking liquid meds. Yet, when I had to give him a liquid med via syringe, a med which contained lactose and tasted sweet, he liked taking it and slurped it up from the syringe like I'd slurp up a chocolate shake.