Do You Have to Eat Cat Food?

Pete: Would your cat turn down a free meal, is what i want to know yet? Sam: If it's the real one, i'll gov you hat some cat food. Astric: I don't think they've tested cats on this, but if you tested our cats, then they would absolutely distrust you. Pete: But monkeys and even human children were more likely to follow the advice of the liar than dogs.

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[Truth or Fail]

Fact 1:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-dogs-people-lying.html

Fact 2:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347296903206

https://theaggie.org/2021/09/14/study-finds-domestic-cats-prefer-freeloading-to-working-for-food/

Fact 3:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/923830

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/cat-genomes/619587/