Given the lack of follow up paper I can guess that no, this paper didn't aid in the study of colon morphology and/or pathology. It was just for a high EWWWW factor.

There are no words.

LOL an odor judge.. hope they paid him well for that job

I wonder what dog breeds they used. My parents' Welsh corgi is the fartingest dog I know. MY dogs, on the other hand, don't fart AT ALL.

@Andy, I can bet it was a poor grad student :-S

Today people would rather look into the microorganisms, namely methanogenic bacteria, in the dog's intestines. Which are by the way also the reason that some people fart more than others…

How did they ever evade an IgNobel prize?

When will the human studies begin?

How do you hold a perforated tube next to the dog’s, um, exterior orifice, for 14 hours?

No no, I don’t want an answer really. I just want to sit here and speculate, as the imagining (not to mention reverse engineering) is entertaining as all get-out! Is it some kind of reverse, rear mounted injury collar? A Shop-Vac? Perhaps a portable gas chromatograph of some sort? Maybe they rig up a bunsen burner and use *visual* indicators of flatus?! RocketDog!

And what does Fido think of this? “Well, that’s Big Dog, acting weird again!”

#4: Your dogs DO fart. They’re just more polite about it, and have mastered the silent fart. And their farts have less of the molecules that make them stink. But just because their farts are silent and don’t smell, doesn’t mean they don’t fart at all.

Having said that, in general, the brachycephalic dogs (the ones with the pushed-in faces, like pugs, bulldogs, etc.) tend to swallow a lot more air into the stomach, and that air has to go SOMEWHERE. So, typically, the brachycephalic dogs are the ones that fart the most.

As #6 points out, methanogenic bacteria are one of the reasons that some people fart more than others. This is true of dogs as well… which could explain why your parents’ Welsh Corgi is unusually flatulent for a non-brachycephalic breed.

Those poor dogs! LOL