How fussy are animals about what they eat?

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take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

pequod said:

Simpo Two said:

It goes to the best restaurant - as you would

This ^^^ is why.

Animals can smell 1000x (ok that can't be proven) better than us, and will search out a food source to their liking even if it means burrowing under fencing to get to it.

Dogs eat grass this time of year too, but only certain types, so they must select through smell, which ones are good to eat?

This is how good some animals can smell.

I was on a search years ago - very public missing person - and the police asked for mountain rescue and SARDA (search dogs) support.

I got chatting to one of the handlers as we searched and he told me of a search dog hound found a sunken trawler in about 50m of water. I was curious how good they were.

The dog was sat in the bow of a rib and picked up the scent from the decomposing bodies as the gas bubbled to the surface.

Incredible.

There was a good 6 part drama on the BBC (The Investigation) and it was a Springer Spaniel that ended up locating the missing submarine/body. They worked out where the dog spotted it, then calculated the current/tide and pin pointed the spot by the smell drifting. Good watch.

[bucksmanuk]

Some are…..
We had a Labrador, and she would eat almost anything – no surprises there…
The apples my mum bought this week – yes please - down they went....
The apples my mum bought last week – no - walk away - zero interest
What did she know that we didn’t?
Anyone have a clue?

[LordGrover]

Ted, my Yorkie, will eat anything and everything from; sticks & twigs, his own or his sister's poop, butchers tinned food to rare steak and scrambled egg. Cheese he will kill for. He'd make a rubbish wolf/wild dog, but he would never starve.

[Pieman68]

LordGrover said:

Ted, my Yorkie, will eat anything and everything from; sticks & twigs, his own or his sister's poop, butchers tinned food to rare steak and scrambled egg. Cheese he will kill for. He'd make a rubbish wolf/wild dog, but he would never starve.

Cooper - Cocker Spaniel

Never seen him eat st but most other things. Not overly keen on apples but loves pears, carrots, dry pasta, blueberries, mango, melon

Unfortunately also likes socks fresh off the 18 year olds rancid trotters and tea towels. We're currently awaiting the reappearance of a mini milk stick with baited breath

[Dibble]

The Idiot is a huge fan of eating horse st, but it’s basically processed grass, so does him no harm. He also likes to eat fresh grass occasionally.

He prefers drinking from a muddy puddle rather than anything fresh from a tap. Loves broccoli, carrots, anything like that. He is also a huge fan of cucumber, as was my previous GSD. It’s like crack cocaine to them. Filet steak? Not that fussed. Cucumber? Absofkinglutely.

[QuartzDad]

Angus, our Westie, has pretty simple rules.

Is it a vegetable? If so, he ain't eating it. Ever.
Is it fruit? If so, see vegetables.

Is it either sweet (cake, biscuits etc.) or cheese? Wolf it down.
Did it once walk, fly or swim? Wolf it down quicker.

[Tommo87]

bucksmanuk said:

Some are…..
We had a Labrador, and she would eat almost anything – no surprises there…
The apples my mum bought this week – yes please - down they went....
The apples my mum bought last week – no - walk away - zero interest
What did she know that we didn’t?
Anyone have a clue?

They failed the ‘Lab Test’?

[Tango13]

My mum used to feed one of her bull terriers on some sort of biscuit mixer of about six or seven flavours, each one a different colour. I noticed there were a load of the white biscuits around the dogs food bowl and mentioned it to my mum. My mum picked up a fresh hand full of mixer and started to throw them for the dog, every time the dog caught a white biscuit it would spit it back out yet all others were virtually inhaled into the dogs stomach.

[otolith]

My GSD loved a broccoli stalk or a carrot, as does the Shihtzu. But he’s a little pig who will eat anything including his own faeces. The GSD was only interested in horse and cat poo, never his own brand.

Incidentally, I used to try to keep him off the horse poo in particular because some horse wormers can be dangerous to dogs.

[Saleen836]

My dear departed Lab would as expected eat almost anything, I used to give her toast for breakfast soaked in milky tea but heaven forbid if i forgot to butter the toast, she would just sit there and look at me with a 'are you kidding me?' face
She also liked to eat orange segments but would only suck the juice out then spit out the skin