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Does anyone else get comfort from dog farts?

No.

That's just weird... NO

Well I spend 4 months a year with three dogs in a 22 travel trailer. Some times I wake up in the night and wonder where I am and then I smell a nice little dog fart.

Only when I can blame my farts on the dog.

Wife: Pew......did you fart?

Me: Nope, it must have been the dog.

Aren't dogs wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just something you have to learn to tolerate. No point in raising a big todo about it. There is nothing you can do about it but live with it.


And know that the digestive system is working as it should.

Dogs fart, who would have guessed????

My brother’s Blue Heeler has the nastiest gas after eating anything that had ketchup on it. I swear she would get a smirk on her face when it happened. Dave

The drahthaar just got done eating 2 week old sundried macerated antelope skull leftovers. Was 24 hours of dog fart hell. I do think he felt bad about it though.

I love it when they fart, then whirl their heads toward their butt with a puzzled look: What the hell was THAT?

My old female chessie Rio would, if you farted loudly, bare her teeth and growl...

If my dogs have gas, invariably it meant they needed to be let out to take a dump. I can't think of a time this wasn't true, even after some thought. Having had close to two dozen dogs there probably were times they had gas for other reasons but noting a dog farting is not something important to me.

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Have you ever had a Boxer? They fart all the time.
Luckily, they usually aren't too bad.
Our Jack Russell wasn't gassy often, but she could ruin a room.
And it lingered.

I worked midnight shift, and she slept with my wife.
We would be cutting up deer in the evening and
Beth would say "Don't be giving her deer meat, I have to
sleep with her tonight".

I would slip her every scrap I could.

One of our granddaughters had 2 boxers after she moved from home but don't recall them being more or less gaseous than our dogs and the one we kept for a week once. Like many quirks, it may be unique to an individual dog or maybe a particular bloodline.

Terriers do seem to have a high incidence of toxicity. My first dog was a terrier/spaniel mix and she was bad if passing gas. One knew she did so as she would beeline to the door upon letting one go. It gave you a couple seconds warning but prevented you from blaming the dog for any unpleasant odors that were noticed. We currently have a Morkie in the house and she is another bad one and is even worse when raining or cold as she doesn't want to go out. The pit bull/heeler mix is not bad at all, I can't think of a time he has had gas.

I found out a long time ago that feeding food with lamb in it would cause them to smoke you right out of the room.

Since then, it's been nothing but beef based and now it's halfway tolerable.

This is very true. Chicken and rice based formulas seem to result in the least gas.

Beef/chicken/lamb with rice seem to have no difference in effect on my dogs regarding gas. No matter what the meat base, the dogs get gas when they need to take a dump. It may be a matter of digestive acclimation as I feed my dogs a variety of foods based on availability and price so they do not get used to a single type. It is not what has been recommended over the years but it has worked for me and my dogs over the last 40 plus years.

What gave my dogs gas while cleaning out their bowels were cow hooves. My folks gave my dogs some about 20 years ago and the stench and trips outside were almost clockwork every 4 hours for a little over a day. I have not allowed my dogs to have hooves since then.

Beef basted Milk bone type treats made our lab unbearable.

Boxers, like all pushed in face dogs are bad.
We have elevated food dishes, and keep him on a good diet. (He still pilfers from the garbage though.)
He still entertains us with the frequent, phiiiifffffft.

These dogs aren't for the snooty. Farts, yawns, grunts, groans, midnight at the watering trough buurrrps, slobbers.

Ain't got no dam manners.

Wife said I just described myself.
BS, I don't slobber, much.

Except for the farts, the above pretty much describes most of my versatile breed dogs and half the setters. To make up for the farts, the wirehairs seem to prefer drinking off the bottom of the dish rather than the surface. With their beards that makes a mess on the floor around their dish and everything else for the next 30 feet or more.

Got to love them though, after all, "only real dogs have beards!"

My Pudelpointer does exactly that. Makes me laugh and I don't have any sense of smell so don't have to live with the side effects.

You're all reminding me of the James Herriot book "All Creatures Great and Small", a gentle lady owned Cedric the boxer who could clear a room.
Tristan's comment wasn't helpful, "speak on sweet lips that never tell a lie"
Cedric was given to the gardener who had no sense of smell (supercub?).

My Akita could make your eyes water..... so, no. No comfort from dog farts.

My wife says my truck stinks like "dog". I think it smells fine.

Bumper sticker:

“My FBEC can out-hunt AND out-fart your NAVHD ribbon winner”

All of you guys are assuming that your dog doesn't have a bigger beef about your farts......

My GWP is self conscious about his farts. He will get up and leave the room or want to go outside to do it.
Love that dog.

TFF!

My dog loves my farts.

As an aside to the line here, if farts get to be too "unpleasant" give the pooch one of the probiotic capsule a day for a few days. The change in gut bugs will often moderate the effluvia for a while. Works well on our Chessies, who sometimes can curl yer hair and burn yer eyes. Same will frequently help when then have some temporary GI upset.

We call Rocky's farts "blue mambas"! They're poisonous.

If you have been a dog owner for quite some time now then you'll get used to it. My Alaskan Malamutes fart a lot since they all love to steal some treats on these automatic feeders that I bought online. Did I make a bad decision of purchasing this product or my buddies are just that smart to know how this thing works?

Dogs are actually like humans, either they make a silent but deadly fart or something that is loud and proud. They just can't control it, and its normal.

No expert here but I'm guessing for many it's too much protein. The sudden appearance of silent but deadly was the signal to move Larry from puppy chow to adult food. No problems after that. Until Lilli caught a rabbit and ate most of it before I found out. She'd let a fart, give me a dirty look, and leave the room. Fortunately it was open window season. Dogs are funny.

When I was a kid, Mom and Dad used to drag us kids along on Friday or Saturday nights to their friends' house to play hearts or gin. They had kids too, so there'd be seven of us doing pretty much anything we wanted until the wee hours. Fun times.

The McCardles had an English Bull Dog named Oscar. Oscar probably weighed 150 pounds and was gentle as a kitten.

I have no idea what they fed Oscar, but he was ALWAYS gassed up and was good for at least three or four very healthy farts per hour. And I am not exaggerating one bit when I say that he could fart anywhere in the open portion of the house (meaning not in a bedroom or bathroom), and you would smell it wherever you happened to be within about half a minute.

Oscar's face didn't give much away, but I think he really got off on it. Everyone else, not so much.

USACE is doing some maintenance on the Dam north of town where I run my dogs every night. Consequently some of the less frequently used parts are in operation causing lake herring to be discharged in a stunned state, and the birds to feast on them. Birds also drop herring going to and from their roosts, which is where the dogs run, and my two idiots find about one 10-12" oily disgusting oversized bait fish each every night which they love and which causes them to fart dead fish smells.

Dog farts and dead fish are two smells which should not ever for any purpose be combined.

Dog farts are a product of the same things peoples farts are : grain in the diet. Feed a dog right and you won't have any that you'll notice, unless the dog gets into something he shouldn't. My dogs don't get grain in their diet so we don't have dog farts to put up with.

Oh boy! First pee less pups and now fart less dogs.

Revenge is sweet!


Ok, maybe not sweet, but 35 years later it still makes me laugh when I think of it, like now...

I was northbound somewhere in WY, on a Denver to MC trip. Lab asleep on seat beside me, his head on my thigh, when I cut an SBD. We are talking deep purple here!

His nose twitched.

His eyes popped open.

He sat up suddenly and sniffed some more.

He turned around and smelled his butt.

He stuck his nose in my crotch and took a big whiff.

Then he gave me a "You ROTTEN bastid" look, and flung himself down with his nose as near as he could get it to the crack in the passenger-side door.

I laughed for 20 miles. And giggled every few minutes for the next 4 hours.

That's just not right. And way TMI.

Since YOU started it though .. .. we had cocker spaniels when I was growing up. Generally they slept under mom's side of the head of my folk's bed. When my sisters and I would get pissed off at mom, we'd engage in chemical warfare by feeding the dog bacon. Warm, moisty, stinky fog rises.

LOL, Las!

John

That one on your trip was hilarious!!!!!., I bet you still laugh about it???? I've always had dogs, years ago when I still trapped the dogs would eat some beaver meat (not ever again). Boy oh boy three in the house would empty a room fast!!! Lost a really really smart dog to a xtra large paresite!!! No beaver meat again!! Ever. Anyway on a lighter note, my oldest daughter has a golden doodle & he can't figure out what a fart is??? Every time he farts, he'll get up with a scared look on his face & move to another spot and is quite nervous for a few minutes!!! My GWP is just normal so no bad bad farts. Interesting about the grain thing, good ta know. I'm out 👣🐾👣🐾👣🐾

LOL deal with a Bull Mastiff for a few days. Never have seen anything like it , hardly ever farts but the noises he makes are unreal. He developed an affinity for white oak acorns this fall, that did not work out well at all.

You never hung out with my Jack Russell when she ate deer scraps.


That damn sure wasn't oats I was smelling!

Or my rat terrier. She was very sneaky when she caught a rabbit and would gorge herself, guts first of course. A SBD would happen, she'd wake up and give me a dirty look and leave the room. Quickly followed by me. Talk about knock a buzzard off a s*** wagon!