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[–] [S] 43 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I used to work in a pet food store and tried a bunch of treat samples we had. They're not very good if you aren't a dog or a cat, turns out

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I remember a food chemist telling me that one of their hardest problems was making things that smell and taste good to dogs and cats, but didn't smell too gross for the humans.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's because they're not giving your pets the same high quality food you get.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    No, that was not it at all, according to her. It's that things that smell really good to the animals don't generally smell good to humans. She said it would be really easy to make food the animals would be excited about, but their owners would open the can and it would smell bad, so they didn't want to buy any more of it.

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