# Belching Animals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638 "2003-08-21T12:28:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ElectroSunDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@ElectroSunDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectroSunDog)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638/1 "2003-08-21T12:28:42Z")

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Besides humans, what other animals burp?

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**Author:** ![keithnmick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@keithnmick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keithnmick)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638/2 "2003-08-21T12:39:16Z")

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My dog burps in my face after his dinner sometimes.

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**Author:** ![ghostman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ghostman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghostman)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638/3 "2003-08-21T12:40:01Z")

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our dog burps regularly.

she also farts. usually she’ll get down on her front legs and raise her butt in the air first tho… (:

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638/4 "2003-08-21T12:53:15Z")

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[Cows](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/13/tech/main558572.shtml).

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**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belching-animals/196638/5 "2003-08-21T13:03:59Z")

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I’ve personally seen dogs, cats and ferrets burp, but they usually did so after being joggled in some way, such as being picked up after eating.