I put out a Costco Cheeto to see how he liked it.  I did not expect him to react like this.

Sparky approaches cautiously to investigate.

As a beagle, Sparky has 300 million olfactory receptors, which is like sixty times what a human has, and his scent processing brain region is forty times bigger. 

Sparky doesn’t need to taste a Costco Cheeto to know.

That is his ‘WTF’ face.  Sparky doesn’t know what this is, but it’s not food.

Sparky is not the type to eat not-food, like socks, bandaids or candy wrappers.  He has eaten a stink bug, goose shit , an acorn, and more conventional found food.  A half-hour before breakfast, he wouldn’t eat a Costco Cheeto.

This is after I explained what that thing was.

Sparky laughed his ass off because he may eat a dead raccoon tail, but he would not eat that snack food I bought.

I don’t mind Sparky making sport, but now I don’t want to eat any more of those.  Since it’s Costco, I have about a bucket left of that stuff.