Dogs are constantly passing gas. So why don’t cats seem to?

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Dogs are constantly passing gas. So why don’t cats seem to?

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

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    Why had I never heard my cat fart? Dogs are such prolific farters—so why aren’t cats?

    • Clambake0351@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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.