Comments on: NCBI ROFL: Finding the frequency of Fido's farts http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Deviled Egg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16313 Deviled Egg Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:48:43 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16313 Those poor dogs! LOL Those poor dogs! LOL

]]> By: MSpears http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16312 MSpears Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:52:27 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16312 #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. #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.

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16311 Brian Too Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:18:27 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16311 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!" 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!”

]]> By: Cookie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16310 Cookie Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:49:16 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16310 When will the human studies begin? When will the human studies begin?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16309 Anonymous Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:04:47 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16309 How did they ever evade an IgNobel prize? How did they ever evade an IgNobel prize?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16308 Anonymous Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:20:10 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16308 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... 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…

]]> By: Deray http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16307 Deray Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:07:12 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16307 @Andy, I can bet it was a poor grad student :-S @Andy, I can bet it was a poor grad student :-S

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16306 Anonymous Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:42:09 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16306 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. 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.

]]> By: Andy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16305 Andy Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:47:03 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16305 LOL an odor judge.. hope they paid him well for that job LOL an odor judge.. hope they paid him well for that job

]]> By: Ms Avery http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16304 Ms Avery Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:51:14 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2009/07/14/finding-the-frequency-of-fidos-farts/#comment-16304 There are no words. There are no words.

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