It is important to pay high attention to the food safety of pet cats

An animal food technology center in Europe has nearly 200 "gourmet tasters" tasked with ensuring that pet food is "favored" in supermarkets, but these "gourmets" are not people. Not people, but pets themselves dogs and cats. The center is jokingly referred to as a "pet welfare center," and in addition to animal behaviorists, nutritionists, veterinarians, and other developers, there are many caregivers, trainers, and pet hairdressers in service.

The "gourmets" attend 1,000 "meals" a year, tasting the food that the experts have created "behind closed doors" based on theory. "Good taste" is of course the first issue that must be considered, but the nutritional physiology also needs to be taken into account from the perfection of pet food, such as whether the cat food should add the appropriate carrots or necessary herbs, which is a problem that many people often ponder, because cats are very picky about what they eat, and it is best to be fancy and varied. In the case of cats, for example, each time they eat, there are 10 cats with chips around their necks walking up to their respective test benches, and only when the chip and the code of the food box lid match, the lid will automatically open, and the combined precision electronic scale under the food box measures all the data of the pet and combines it with the data of the food for statistics, and also calculates the disturbing factors (affecting appetite), and finally determines the most popular food. The tasting process is filmed by the camera for observation and analysis, and it can be seen whether the pet cat eats brine or minced meat first. These cats have such tricky mouths that they can even distinguish between foods from different manufacturers.

After the pets are selected for the "center", they must first be trained to eat quietly without disturbance. In the beginning, consciously give less tasty, and then slowly with delicious, so that they know that food is different, it is possible to choose. It is normal for pets to have different tastes and directions. But it cannot appear that today they like this and tomorrow they like that, so researchers are monitoring at all times. Taste buds are checked once a year, and if problems are found and not cured, the pet must be withdrawn from the "center".

A dog's sense of taste is different from a cat's. A dog's sense of taste requires a great deal of cooperation from the sense of smell, and subtle olfactory signals are sent to the brain, where good-smelling foods are attracted to them and bad-smelling ones are left behind. Dogs have about 1700 taste buds on the tongue, palate, and pharynx, far fewer than humans (humans have about 9000), but are equally able to respond to sweet, sour, bitter, and salty tastes, although they do not respond very strongly to salt and reject both sour and bitter ones. Although dogs like meat best, it may be worth adding a little vegetable or a small amount of sweet cake to the food. Cats are less capable of sensing sweet foods because they lack the "genetic equipment" to process this information. Although their taste ability is not as outstanding as that of humans, they can distinguish between the amino acids in different meats and can taste the amino acids in rat meat, making the feline a specialized advanced carnivore.

The reliability of the adage "there is no such thing as a cat that doesn't eat fishy food" seems to have been shaken, with studies showing that only one-third of cats are cool with fish, one-third are indifferent to fish, and one-third simply do not touch fish.

As pets age, their function and fitness decline, so it has become a trend to produce functional food for pets, and the concern for the nutrition and health of pet food can be home to roost. Some may say, people, do this not to make money. Then you must advise those black-hearted businessmen, please at least in the production and sale of food for human consumption also use such a way to make money, not by giving people to eat poison!