If smell was legit warning trigger and not a learned trigger nobody would eat balut.
Don’t google that if you’re easily barfed.
Not sure my objections are entirely based on its effect on my olfactory senses. Someone told me they sell more balut in the far east, then we sell burgers in the west, I don’t know if it’s true, but it does seem to be very popular, who knows why.
“Thousand year old eggs”, yeah, big deal in the Far East, but then fugu is more of a sport than a meal. There’s no accounting for taste.
Sorry to re-up this old crap (lol) but one of our dogs likes “poopcicles” – eats his own frozen poop this time of year. Doesn’t seem to care for it when it’s room temperature.
He’s a rather extreme “beta” dog and our vet explains that in the wild a beta will eat its own scat to erase any trace that it’s been around, lest some alpha consider it a territorial intrusion. I have no idea if that’s really true. BUT …
… he gave us a product called FOR-BID which is a powder you put on their food once a day for a few days and it’s supposed to stop them. It did work for awhile – I need to pick some more up and give him another dose I suppose.
From what I gather from the packaging, it’s basically just monosodium glutamate and whey powder. Putting that together with that the dog only eats frozen poop, I presume that poop does taste bad, even to him, and surfacing that taste with a flavor enhancer even in frozen poop makes him stop.
As a side benefit … not eating poop improves his breath. A lot.
Coprophagy is one of those bizarre traits that surfaces in unlikely places, as the caterpillars specialising in koala and sloth dung readily establish. Likewise the odd digestive habits of rabbits.
Though there’s a beetle known weirdly as the Maid of Kent, a member of the UK fauna covered in more detail here. Scroll down until you hit the hilarious heading “The Poo Police”.
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