so i decided to experiment on my pets...

Must say I quite fancy trying that with Harold, check out if he prefers flying ants to mossies. However I won't bother as I don't actually find his food for him, he catches his own. I could try him off with a bit of splattered green smelly bug and report back. Surely your pets could follow Harold's example and fend for themselves, seems to me that you cossett those beasties far too much.

Dearra's experiment, do ants prefer sugar or cheese, produced the expected result, ie sugar. Our pet rats when I was a child ate pretty much everything that was food. Of the cats we have now, Tiger eats plastic, Jason eats curling ribbon and Oreo sucks skin.

Hi jb Yes Gissi eats things that I never thought he would He likes Cabbage but only raw Carrots but only raw Cucumber he likes Beetroot I have had lots of Dogs and none of them has ever eaten anything like that so I was surprised to see Gissi eat it

When reading the title, I really thought you did something horrible to them That sounds like a really fun experiment though. I'm sure your pets had fun with the experiment too and I'll always remember certain rats like spicy food.

Yes, rats are fine. My daughter used to raise them and sell them. Animals usually don't go in for alot of extra spices and herbs on their foods. I have had dogs that like heavy foods and a cat that liked carrots and vegetables. Animals enjoy alot of odd things as far as humans look at it anyway.

my 75 pound sissy LOVES fresh sliced ginger. He drools and slathers about. I hate the stuff, tastes like Ivory Soap to me.... have your Sqeaks ever had Tamales? betcha they'd love em!

Darnit, rabbit, where were you when I had kids in school who had to come up with Science Fair projects? Your experiment was very enlightening since I was certain that your rats wouldn't prefer ordinary pepper. Like the Lamb, I had a cat who loved green beans. My little dog, Sugar, loves bananas and coconuts. My big dog, Dyna, does not like bananas but she'll always try a bite just in case it tastes better this time...then she spits it out.

Hello, Judith - great to see you back, and with such an original and educational discussion too. Let's see the copiers - who have been very active lately - try and pass this one off as a mistaken duplication. We had a Border Collie, Patch, who lived to 17 years of age. Unlike many dogs, he would never steal food, even if you left plates out or left the fridge open, but he considered anything that fell on the floor as fair game. One day, we were having a salad, and Tony tried to spear a pickled onion with his fork. It bounced off the plate, and Patch wolfed it down. We were amazed, as they were home made onions and very spicy with lots of full strength vinegar - not the poor imitations of pickled onions on offer in the shops. As an experiment, - without proper scientific procedures either true, false or made up - we put another onion in his food dish and he wouldn't touch it. Next time we had salad, I 'accidentally' dropped an onion, and this time, Patch caught it before it even hit the floor. Our scientific conclusions? Patch had psychological problems. He thought he was a vacuum cleaner rather than a dog, and that he was expected to eat everything that fell on the floor. This may sound like mumbo jumbo, but the early warning signs were there. As a puppy, he ate a ball of wool that dropped out of a visitor's shopping bag. That could have been very nasty, but it all passed without incident, if you get my drift.

That is hilarious! I cannot believe you tried that. I would be too scared to ever try anything like that through fear of getting in trouble! I am so surprised they went for the peppered as opposed to the non-peppered! That is amazing!