Most cats are full of curiosity, especially what our human food tastes like, and as long as they seize the opportunity to taste delicious food, they will not let it go easily. Therefore, in the home of a cat owner, there will often be scenes of cats snatching food. If the owner's heart is not strong enough and the defense is not tight enough, then the cat's success rate in grabbing food will be greatly increased.

When cats finally taste the food after a fierce battle for food, they are likely to become very interested in this kind of food. They will still dare to eat this kind of food next time they see it. Snatch food.

If the cat owner is a person who is addicted to sugar, he must have had the candy snatched from his mouth by his cat owner, and he may also find that the cat found all the candy he hid when he came home and gnawed it all.

For a cat that loves to compete with him for sweets, he must feel that his furry child must be as addicted to sugar as he is. Isn't there a saying that goes, "One family does not belong to the same family?" The cat must have the same preferences as the cat who will take it home.

But cats don’t actually like the sweet taste as much as the cat does, so they keep grabbing the candies from the cat, because they don’t know what sweet tastes like.

You read that right, cats don’t know what sweetness is. They can’t feel sweetness in their taste. The reason why they like to eat candy is just because the smell of candy is exactly what they like. If it smells like candy, It’s not the smell they like, so they are very likely to turn a blind eye to the candy.

So why can’t cats taste sweetness?

We all know that if we want to know the taste of a certain food, we must taste it with our tongues. Only then can we know what the food tastes like.

The tongue is actually a large taste receptor. The food we eat is initially felt by the tongue, and then the taste is transmitted to our cerebral cortex through nerves, so we can know what the food tastes like. Taste receptors that can sense sweetness require a combination of two special genes to produce two proteins. These two genes are present in most mammals. Cats also have these two genes. But its genes are not complete, but defective. Although cats with defective genes can still produce proteins, the proteins they produce do not combine to form sweet taste receptors in the same way that proteins produced by our intact genes do.

The inability to have taste receptors for sweetness means that cats are destined not to be able to taste sweetness.Taste, so they like to eat sugar not because they like the sweet taste. The five flavors we often talk about refer to the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Except for sweetness, which cats cannot taste, cats can feel the other four flavors normally.

Cats who cannot feel sweetness have a special ability that is unmatched by other animals. This ability is that they can taste what water tastes like. When we were young, we must have been curious about the taste of water, and we would taste the taste of water carefully, but no matter how we tasted it, we never came to the conclusion of what water tasted like.

The question that has puzzled us for many years is an extremely simple answer for cats, because they can draw the conclusion just by drinking a little water. However, although they know what the water tastes like, we do not Unable to get an answer from them, it seems this question will continue to bother us. In fact, cats’ bodies still lack an enzyme that can digest sugar, which means that they cannot eat high-sugar foods for a long time because their bodies cannot break down sugar on their own.

If too much sugar accumulates in cats’ bodies, it will cause harm to their bodies, and in severe cases, it can cause physical diseases.

So what problems will occur if cats eat high-sugar foods?

1. Poisoning

Generally speaking, chocolate is a food with extremely high sugar content. It is a more convenient food that can replenish sugar in a short time. However, chocolate is a food that cats cannot touch at all.

Cats cannot eat chocolate, not only because chocolate has a high sugar content, but also because the theobromine and caffeine contained in chocolate can cause poisoning in cats.

2. Diabetes

Cats lack a certain enzyme that breaks down sugar, which means that after eating a large amount of high-sugar food, they are unable to convert sugar into other nutrients, and it accumulates in the cat's body.

When the sugar in a cat’s body accumulates to a certain level, it will increase the workload of the cat’s pancreas and make the pancreatic organ burdened, thereby greatly increasing the cat’s risk of diabetes.

3. Kidney failure

Similarly, when the sugar content in cats’ bodies is too high, their kidneys need to spend a lot of energy to break it down and transform it. The kidneys that have been in a high-intensity working environment will become exhausted. Once a cat’s kidneys feel tired, it means that the lifespan of their kidneys has come to an end, that is,It is what we understand as symptoms of kidney failure.

Cats like to eat sweets not because of their love for sweetness, but because of their appreciation of the smell in the candy. However, no matter how much cats like candy, we must try to avoid letting them eat the candy that we eat. If the cat can't stand the pitiful appearance of the cat being greedy for candy, we can actually buy candy specially produced for cats, so that the cat can taste the candy it misses, and we don't have to worry about the cat getting sick from eating too much sugar.

In fact, no matter what we feed our cats, we should pay attention to the amount. We must not indulge our cats in eating as much as they want, because a momentary indulgence is likely to cause a lifetime of regret.

In fact, we should treat cats like a child without self-protection. Only by taking good care of the cat's daily life can the cat grow up healthily and stay with us all the time.

If we inadvertently cause hidden dangers in the cat's life that are within the safety range, then we are very likely to cause the cat's body to have problems of one kind or another. This should be something that none of us as shit collectors want to see. In order to avoid things that will cause pain to cats and make us regret, we should be careful enough in our daily lives!