Do your pets fart?

[Liam]

I remember The Poodle farting once. He looked at me, as if to say, "Gee, you sure are stinky."

[WolfyOne]

I used to have a dog and as she got older, the farts got worse.
She could actually be in a sound sleep and rip one that was bad enough to wake her.....
.....so bad, she'd get up and leave the room

[scootebaby]

i have/had(left her with my mom)a chihuahua whom while in my custody was lucky if 4lbs...she would lay on couch between my legs,butt against my "stuff"..id feel her body move slightly,see her eyebrows go up,ears fall back..then id get a whiff and be like "Daisy Mae what did you do...she would proceed to look up at me first with sad eyes then run up my body and around and around my neck--as if to give me the full effect...i had 2 ferrets...one real skinny one,one male FAT one(bubby was his name) id get them out of cage and let them run around in my room for awhile then bubby would suddenly stop and look at me as his body vibrated...id say "bubby did u just fart? at which point he would flatten himself against the floor and look at me like i couldnt see OR smell him.. sure miss those guys

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by Cyclopea

My rabbit has never farted (to my knowledge) but I have seen other bunnies fart.


Ok that's fake! I don't think rabbits fart!

As a former bunny owner I can tell you that rabbits do fart....and that broccoli makes them fart really, really bad

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by NJFemmie

Rabbits eat raw, crude vegetables, they MUST fart.
(All animals pass gas, some are just more .... "delicate" about it than others, lol).

Yes I think you must be right!
This from sciencemuseum.org.uk :

Do rabbits fart?
Quite simply – yes. In fact, nearly all animals do, as it’s a necessary part of digesting food.

Nearly all animals?
Well, almost. If by ‘fart’ you mean ‘release gas from the gut’, then all animals with guts will, in fact, fart. Insects, fish, lizards, snakes, cats, dogs, mice, elephants . . . almost any creature you can think of. In fact, the only ones that don’t fart are those that didn’t evolve guts – like sponges, jellyfish and some types of worm. Guts are for taking in food and plopping out waste products, and these animals either absorb food through the surface of their bodies, or eat and poo through the same hole.

Gross. I think I’d rather have guts.
Absolutely. But then you have no choice but to fart. As food is digested in the gut, gases are made from the chemical reactions inside. So it’s either fart or starve for most animals. Including us.

Really?! You mean you have to fart? That’s brilliant!
Well, again, that depends on what you mean by ‘fart’. If you mean ‘release gas from your bottom’, then, yes – you have to.. It’s happening all the time, whether you like it or not. But if you mean ‘trumpet loudly and award yourself a mark out of ten’, then no – this isn’t strictly necessary.

Curses. So farts are just food gas from our guts, then?
Well, that’s not the whole story. Most animals (including us) also have bacteria living in their guts that release more gases as they, too, break down food. Many animals – particularly plant-eaters like rabbits – couldn’t live without these bacteria in their guts. For land animals, some fart gas also comes from air swallowed with food accidentally. All this gas has to go somewhere, so it gets pushed along with the food to the animal’s bottom . . . and you know the rest. Of course, some animals fart more than others.

OK – which ones? I have to know...
Some animals produce so much fart gas that it spreads around the planet’s atmosphere and plays a role in global warming. Scientists used to think cows were one of the worst for this, but it turns out that it’s probably their burps, rather than their farts, that do it. Termite farts, on the other hand, produce more methane (one of the gases involved in global warming) than all of our cars, planes and factories put together! The termites can’t help this, of course. It’s because they need more of those gut bacteria than most animals in order to digest their woody diet. But it has earned them the number one spot in our Top 10 animals that fart list. The rest are in no particular order, other than how stinky I’ve found them to be.

Top 10 animals that fart
Termites
Camels
Zebras
Sheep
Cows
Elephants
Labradors/Retrievers
Humans (vegetarian)
Humans (others)
Gerbils

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by JustJo

As a former bunny owner I can tell you that rabbits do fart....and that broccoli makes them fart really, really bad

LOL Now I am going to be watching for bunnie farts all the time!

[Cyclopea]

"The spider seems disconcerted" LMAO

[NJFemmie]

Break out the bunny-beano!

[theoddz]

Well, lookie what I found:
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Fart (Definition)
Originally described by the Oxford English Dictionary as, "A slight explosion between the legs," a fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide) that travels from a person's stomach to their anus. When a person swallows too much air or eats foods that the human digestive system cannot digest easily gas becomes trapped in the stomach. The only way for this excess gas to exit the body is through the anus.
Hydrogen sulfide gas, containing sulphur, causes the famous aroma. The more sulfur in your diet, the higher the aromatic potential. Sulphur rich foods include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs.

The scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatuence.

Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, pongs, air biscuits,bombers, low-flying ducks, barking spiders, cheek slappers, rotten eggs, wet ones, poots,
You can pass gas, break wind, toot, poop, trump, pump, slip one, blast, beef, poof, s**t, s**te, rip one, let one rip, let one go, let one fly, step on a duck, give an opinion, blow the butt trumpet, cut one and cut the cheese.

Reactionary statements include: "Incoming!" "Ewww who did that?" "Ooowph, who let go?" "Ghhod, did a rat crawl up your bum and die?" "Phwawh, gemme ouda here...Jeez-us!" "Keee-riste, do you issue gas masks with that?" "Why are you all looking at me?" "I didn't do it."

The most fearsome fart is the SBD (Silent But Deadly).


On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day, male or female...mostly while asleep!!
The honorable title of "most flatulant animal" goes to the Elephant.
Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen can be flammable.


Japanese for fart: "onara"
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Because I'm so fulla such interesting bits of miscellaneous useless information,
~Theo~

[Rook]

ZOMG!!!! My ferrets fart?!?!...Wow..
The food I give 'em must be real good then.{for the most part..I wont deny their poop reeks}
I honestly think "passing gas" is needed (avoid stomach aches) BUT...at the same time, u [as a human] can always act like your mother taught u some Manners...
Excuse yourself, try to avoid it while u make an exit {for the lazy ppl, clenching booty actually tones up}
You'll thank yourself later when that Fuckalicious date calls ya back....
However, an animal obviously doesn't care much for manners....

And now I know a Japanese word I can call my brother and he will never know how I learned it ....

[TxsCharmr]

Yes ... oh yes....the dawg farts!!! The kat...never heard one.
Now we must include our human pets in this as well....and all im gonna say is that sometimes there is a need to take a walk outside!

[suebee]

They say that farts are helping to destroy the ozone layer.

[Lynn]

We have an older dog, collie/lab mix, who is on insulin and a very strict diet. His farts smell like a skunk has sprayed the room. His vet did say we could give him Gas-X, but I don't like to do that too much. We tried giving him plain yogurt to maybe help the good bacteria situation, but he actually got worse.

[Rook]

Originally Posted by cybersuebee

They say that farts are helping to destroy the ozone layer.

and I generally tell Vegans/Vegetarians
"I'm helping this planet.....Cow farts destroy the Ozone....I eat Cows...."

[Bit]

He's a Labrador Retriever... we're doomed.

I try to tell myself that I can get used to anything... and then my self recoils in horror: "omg! you want to get used to THAT??!!"

[Massive]

My Aunt had a cat, a purebred silver tabby, called Rigby, who was ever the gentlecat, he would fart in his sleep, wake up, glare at my Aunt and then stalk out the room thoroughly disgusted...
My current cat also farts, and when she's awake and it happens, she stares at her arse as if to say "Well what the f*ck was that!?!" then turns to look at me like I can make her understand what just happened.
I'm not sure which is worse though, dog fart or cat fart, cat farts tend to be fairly fishy, but a dog we had when I was a little kid could clear the entire ground floor of the house when he'd been given a bone!

[Sachita]

I board dogs. Farts are common place around here, although some are worse then others. Imagine a 6 dog fart fest. I use to hard boil eggs as treats. I learned the hard way that its not a good idea. I have dogs that stink so bad they will wake me from a dead ass sleep.

[T D]

OMG most of these responses are tooooo funny!!!!!! LOL

Such good sports ya all are

[Bit]

Some foods are worse than others; we were given a big bag of Beneful, and the dogs ate about half of it before payday rolled around again.



It didn't matter that I was sick that day... it didn't matter HOW sick I was. I was at that store and a bag of Iams was the first thing in my cart!

24 hours to relief---ahhhhh....

[PearlsNLace]

Bagels+ Dog= noxious misery!