Re: Unsticking

Heather wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:47:19 -0400, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
> <cdimmick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Heather wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:16:39 GMT, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
>>> <cdimmick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Interestingly, all mammals like sweet foods, not just dogs.  It's
just
>>>>> that dogs are the animal that most of us know well.  A former cow
>>>>> orker had a Rottweiler who gorged so heavily on windfall fruit that
>>>>> she almost killed herself and all of my dogs have been very fond of
>>>>> fruit.
>>>> Except cats. Cats don't go for sweet foods.
>>>> As far as I know they don't even taste sweet food.
>>>> Wait a minute; I read an article about this a few
>>>> years ago:
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4707793.stm
>>>
>>> Karen says that no-one ever told her cats about this fact.
>>>
>>>
>> Cats like ice cream and chocolate, but it's because of
>> the fat, not because of the sugar.
> 
> 
> They are not allowed to come anywhere near chocolate for obvious
> reasons, but I believe there are other sweet things they will eat if
> they get half a chance. 
> 
Oh, I don't allow mine to get near chocolate either; I was
just pointing out that they like it, one of the few things
that they like that isn't good for them.

Charles