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Given my friend's dog licked up a bunch of antifreeze a couple months ago, I'd say it doesn't work very well.
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Given my friend's dog licked up a bunch of antifreeze a couple months ago, I'd say it doesn't work very well.
- ortusdux 5y agoIt's the most bitter compound know to humans, with a detectability down to 0.05 ppm, and average aversion dosing around 10ppm. Lab tests show that some animals require 100,000 times the dose before detection. This discrepancy is leveraged for another application - making rat poison repulsive to children without reducing its efficacy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938403003007?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00319...
- jakear 5y agoI take small pride in the idea there’s something I can taste better than my dog. All I ever hear is how their senses are orders more heightened than our own. Do you know if there are any smells that humans can detect better than dogs?
- brian-armstrong 5y agoMore likely is that dogs can taste it fine, but it doesn't bother them. It's a matter of perspective.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoAnd yet I know a vet who routinely gets "rat poison dogs"
- duderific 5y agoI've seen dogs eat cat poop, so maybe they're not the target audience. Not sure what it would take to make a dog not eat something.
- disillusioned 5y agoIronically, while my dog is happy to eat his own shit, _citrus_ is a bridge too far, for him and most dogs, which is why citronella is used as an anti-bark collar component.