Timeline for Why do cats love milk even though they are lactose intolerant
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| Dec 24, 2021 at 4:55 | vote | accept | ahron | ||
| Dec 23, 2021 at 15:58 | answer | added | StephenS | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 4:45 | comment | added | ahron | @C.Koca oddly enough, all cats I have had/known liked bread. | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | Allison C | @C.Koca I keep my bread in the refrigerator because my previous cat would pull a loaf from the bottom of the shopping bag and destroy it in the time it took me to take off my jacket. One of my current cats, if given the chance, will also destroy a loaf of bread, and tries to steal my breakfast English muffin every day. Some cats will absolutely eat a loaf of bread. | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 16:26 | comment | added | ck1987pd | @AllisonC I never seen a cat eating a loaf of bread, even when they are starving stray cats. I did see cats eating pieces of bread fully soaked with meat stew, though. | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 15:06 | comment | added | Allison C | No, animals aren't "instinctually better aware of what foods are bad for them" any more than humans (who are also animals) are. If there's a source of possible nutrition that isn't obviously rotten, animals will eat it. Which is why a cat will eat a loaf of bread when they can't digest grains properly, either. :) | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 9:22 | comment | added | Allerleirauh | Imagine a world without humans... then the cat would have no option to get milk after been grown up. So the nature had have no need to train them "eat no milk" because there was no possibility to extinct because of milk consumption... The time since there is milk available is an eyeblink in evolution :) | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 7:12 | comment | added | ahron | haha good one. So they (cats) still consider the milk to be food? But isn't it the case that animals are typically instinctually better aware of what foods are bad for them? | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 6:14 | comment | added | SerenaT | You could ask lactose intolerant people the same thing :D | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 3:49 | history | asked | ahron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |