cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/science@slrpnk.net/p/1972992/do-cats-fart-an-investigation-into-the-mysteries-of-feline-flatulence
Dogs are constantly passing gas. So why don’t cats seem to?
Ask anyone with a cat. Yes, they fart, mine likes to do it right in my face.
If you have to question whether cats fart, you don’t spend much time around your cat. It might not be very often, but you’ll know when it happens.
My black cat used to fart every time we picked him up. Did we stop picking him up? No. Did we vomit? Yes!
doesn’t have to be a cat to get the experience. set me on a protein diat, pick me up and then smell
I changed my boy Ralph’s diet and for a few weeks when he let one go you didn’t even have to be in the room to notice. A few times I went in search because I thought for sure he shit himself somewhere.
I mean, it is my first cat and we have him now for 4 years, but I cannot say I ever heard or noticed him farting.
That said I never had the thought he wouldn’t fart at all. If everybody poops then everbody farts as well.
Anyone who has adopted a kitten knows they fart. Those first couple days / weeks while their guts settle is awful
This feral kitten had de-wormer med diarrhea in my bed twice! and I love him so much but man his regular everyday farts are an even worse crime than that
I guess my cats are just the best to ever do it, because I almost don’t believe y’all lol. I have 3 cats — 2 adopted at a couple months old, 1 at around 6 months — and I’ve never heard or smelled a fart, and they hang out on my lap somewhat regularly.
If you yoink them off the floor and cradle them in your arm, there’s a 10% chance you’ll smell a fart. Especially if it’s a kitten.
Our dear departed boy, Leo (he was FIV+ and had some major digestive issues, hence the box label). I still have the box saved in my shed…
When I was a kid we had a cat named Blossom because he was always “blossoming”
He had very special episodes.
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This one definitely does.
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I have to assume the article author hasn’t spent much time around cats if they thought they don’t fart. Dog farts might be louder, but cat farts will peel the paint off your walls.
Protein farts is nasty.
My feline overlord doesn’t fart often, but when he does it clears the room and we have to open all the windows.
Yes they do and it’s rank!!!
I guess I need to learn to eat more slowly. Cat wisdom™
Mine never makes a sound, but it’s deadly and the dog usually takes the blame.
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Mine do, usually close to my head
In a foundational 2001 study, a group of brave researchers in England collected and sniffed dog farts. The team found that the concentration of hydrogen sulfide in those farts correlated with worse odor rankings.
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Why had I never heard my cat fart? Dogs are such prolific farters—so why aren’t cats?Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?
Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.
How can I get some money to fund a dumbass study like this?
Sarah Palin? Is that you?
When my cat had stomach issues and was put on a prescription wet food she got very gassy. Picking her up made it worse. She’ll still let one out every now and then but it’s not nearly as bad as it was. Those were some stinky toots.
Someone is fishing for an Ig Nobel.
If they can figure out how to breed non-stinky fart cats then surely there’s a FIFA peace price on offer.
