Richard Webb -> Cindy Haglund wrote:

 CH>>  Dogs will eat just about anything the same way people will. They
 CH>> don't always know better, just like people. Do you know if there's
 CH>> any info on dog's tastebuds? I wonder ! Hmm. A google challenge !
 CH>> 

 RW> WOuld be interesting.  Can't do google here, but I'm sure somebody'll
 RW> take you up on that . we know taste is close kin to smell, and dogs
 RW> live by their noses.

...from http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/anphys/2000/Hatfield/Hatfield2.htm
Taste: A dog's senses of taste and smell are closely linked and it is
possible that dogs gain more information about food from its smell than
from its taste.  Most of a dog's taste buds are clustered around the tip of
the tongue.  Dogs can detect bitter, sweet, salty, and sour tastes, but
their sense of taste is relatively poor and they have only one-sixth the
number of taste buds that humans have (Whitehead 1999).

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