DOES YOUR CAT EAT CUCUMBERS?
NEW FOOD FOR ANIMALS The widespread shortage of feeding stuffs for animals may encourage owners of domestic stock to try experiments, and they will find that animals have a strange and unexpected taste as human beings. There have been cows that would eat soap with gr.eat relish, their mouths a mass of foam and lather. There is a cat, too, which was often caught helping herself to cucumbers growing in her master’s greenhouse. There have been dogs with a passion for grapes, pears and strawberries.
But horses are perhaps the most exceptional in their varied diet. Along the Persian" Gulf, for instance, horses are fed on sun-dried and salted whitebait and other small fish; and they show a zest no less pronounced for locusts treated in the same way, which form a regular part of native diet in hot lands wherever these insects swarm.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 79, 12 September 1947, Page 4
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149DOES YOUR CAT EAT CUCUMBERS? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 79, 12 September 1947, Page 4
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