Rethinking The Finicky Dog

Most dogs aren’t picky eaters – they are well known for big appetites and less than discerning ‘taste’ about what they will chow down on. But of course “most dogs” does not mean “all dogs”, so what do you do when you have a dog that is finicky about what it eats?

One of the things that get in the way of us understanding our dogs is that we impose our human rationale onto them. With humans, we rely far more on our sense of taste than we do on our sense of smell, so we tend to overlap our thoughts and feelings about food onto our canine companions.

I would think almost all dog owners know that their dog’s sense of ‘smell’ is far superior to that of humans, but what about their ability to ‘taste’ compared to ours?

Scientists have estimated that humans have approximately 9,000 taste buds, but did you know that dogs have considerably fewer? Would it surprise you to find out that they are believed to have approximately 80% fewer taste buds than humans?

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