I've got my parents' elderly labrador staying for a couple of days while they're away.
JESUS he's dropping some serious gas.
After crop dusting the living room with a particularly evil brew earlier he's been banished to the porch, which is two closed doors away. He's somehow STILL managing to stink the whole house out, it's making my eyes water!
What do they put in dog food that could possibly produce such foul airbiscuitage?
My 10 year old daughter is adamant dogs can see their farts.
Just sayin.
Shit food? (literally)
My Lab was stinky on Chudleys but ok on James Wellbeloved.
Pay more, stink less?
Food is a massive part of it. Our dog doesn't fart, but he's on decent dry food.
Crap in, crap out.
My friend used to have a flatulent dog called Timmy. Each evening Vicky and her mum would sit watching TV, with the dog between them on the hearthrug.
When Timmy eventually passed away, his farts mysteriously continued . . .
Change the food. It's nothing to do with cost or dry / wet. Just a reaction between something in the food and his gut. Chappie has worked well for dogs I've known.
Staffies, akin to the Union Carbide facility at Bhopal, no matter what they eat.
He's a lab too, so probably eating all sorts of rubbish when out for a walk.
What food's he on?
A friend of mine had a giant Schnauser whose favourite food was broccoli.
He wasn't allowed broccoli, ever. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Given that dogs sense of smell is something like 40 times stronger than ours, Imagine what it's like for him.
Yeah but, who doesn't like the smell of their own farts? Are dogs different?
No idea what the food is, I've been handed a clear bag with some dried food in it, it's been decanted from a bigger bag.
His guts seem to have freshened up this morning, we'll see if it returns or if he just ate the contents of a sewage plant or something before getting dropped off here.
Crap in, crap out.
Now clearly I'm no expert here, but I would expect crap to come out pretty much irrespective of what goes in. If, however, there's something that I can give him to make him lay golden eggs rather than brown squidgy ones, then I'm all ears.
Oh, and he definitely can smell them - when he first dropped one last night he had a good sniff, looked at his tail, then looked up at me as if it was somehow my fault.
Given that dogs sense of smell is something like 40 times stronger than ours, Imagine what it's like for him.
Yes, but your own are different and a source of pride aren't they - like children.
He's sitting there chuffed to bits about what he has brewed up.
Oh.
I thought this was another Trump thread.
I shall be dog sitting soon.
What is the best food for easy poo picking up?
Bones. Then the poo will be dry and white.
Just like the OP's lab, my dog gets farty if she has a change of location or people. First time my niece dog-sat was very upsetting for her! The dog almost died as a pup due to stomach issues, so her farts are particularly pungent. The only thing that ameliorates* it is giving her the right food.
*I learned this word today.
I grew up with an incredibly farty Boxer dog. It got worse as she got older, to the point that she'd drop one in the living room, get a whiff of it and exit sharpish to her basket, ducking in shame as she skulked out of the room leaving her humans gasping for air.
I also have a very flatulent cat, who likes nothing more than to curl up in my lap and spend the evening squeezing out noxious kitty farts which make him shudder as they leave his guts.
Oh.I thought this was another Trump thread.
I thought it was about a new Tarantino movie
Origin of the word [b]feisty[/b].