Do cats fart?
Yes, and I have had more than one cat cause me to leave a room due to the stench of feline gaseous emissions.
My cats never do (at least we can’t tell). They’re all “dry food only.” My SIL’s cats do canned food, and they’re big farters. Coincidence? I think not.
Yes.
But in my experience, there is truth to the expression “quiet as a cat’s fart.”
Felines tend to emit SBDs.
Yes. I’m guessing you have a cat fart problem going on. Cat farts will bring even the most hard-core lurker out lurkeragenessousity.
::waves to whoever that was that started the thread about needlessly complex words::
My cats were on dry food, when they farted (Once while turning around on my lap!). The problem is, I wasn’t aware at the time, (I was young, and didn’t realize that store brand food was not always good quality) of how poor the quality of said food was. As soon as I switched catfoods to a non-ashy food, the stench abated. Perhaps the cats you speak of are fed low quality food too, Kalhoun?
At least two of our cats sometimes fart. Sapphire gets very gassy if she drinks too much milk (I can give her about a teaspoon of milk without problems) and Mere was terribly flatulent when we first got her. She’d been hanging around an auto repair shop, and the owner had been feeding her generic dry cat food. Dear og, but that kitty could certainly pollute a room! We feed her a better quality dry food now, and she doesn’t fart. Or at least, we don’t smell her farts now.
Ditto. I’ve lived with cats my entire life, but since I’ve been married, we’ve had only male cats and have gone down the 100% dry ash-free premium quality road. That is because the cheap stuff has lots of ash, and the ash can cause feline urinary syndrome.
While some believe, as the cite says, that all-dry food diets may contribute, we have found with roughly 80 years of cat-lifetime as a measure that using high-quality ash-free dry food does as well as wet food.
Their feces aren’t nearly as foul-smelling as cats who eat wet or a wet/dry combination and they rarely if ever fart.
I am in agreement with other Dopers on this, a cat fart is a frightening experience. Especially when Fluffy is sitting on your lap. :eek:
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Well, I wouldn’t call it low quality, but I’d definitely call it cheap. We buy Meow Mix with hairball control. I think we pay about $8 for a 20 lb. bag. I’ve had ten cats over the last eighteen years. Most of them lived to be at least 18 years old. The exceptions to that are Inspector Cleauseau who died of cancer when he was about 15, and Willow, who died of kidney failure (but we only had her about 6 months). For the most part, our cats are never sick. And we’re fart-free.
We had a cat and when she let one go I swear that fish in the petshop down the road floated belly up and flies dropped like…well…flies.
Sadly “Eccles” is no more having passed on about 2 years ago
Good Og yes, they fart! Pixel unleashed an SBD that got me out of bed 15 minutes early this morning. Foul, it was!
Kalhoun, I was asking if your SIL’s cats might be on cheap food. 
Ah. Ok. Sorry. :smack: I doubt it. This particular SIL is wealthy and dotes on the cats as if they were her children (she has no kids). I’m guessing they get the best of everything, though. She buys the seats on the plane when she travels, so good cat food is probably a high priority as well.
I’ve had several cats over a span of almost 40 years, and I don’t recall ever suspecting one of farting. But I’d rather have farting than rubbing their ass across the carpet.
I hope I don’t get lynched for this but I am sneaking into a cat thread with a dog anecdote.
One of the neatest dogs I have ever met was afraid of his own farts. If anyone else farted he would be fine, but as soon as he squeezed one out it he must have thought the devil possessed his ass. If his bowels were having an off day, that poor dog would be quivering in a corner for hours.
I recall someone asking me how a cat (called Tilly) knew that Tilly was her name [she would look at you when you called her], I said it wasn’t the name it was the sound she recognised, and started calling Silly, Billy, Willy, Milly etc at the cat and she kept looking at me … the other gal was quite impressed, and - to prove the point - I yelled “fart”. And the cat did. Loudly.
So yes, yes they do indeed fart.
Cat food doesn.t smell so good for starters. It will then give ugly aromas for farters.
Cats on de-worming medicine fart. Boy, do they fart.
YES. Oh yes, do they ever!
Maggie has been known to rival my father for the stinkiest farts in the family. How something so tiny and cute can produce such an obnoxious stench. Forget looking for WMDs in Iraq-c’mon over to my house sometime!
I agree. We have one farter. The only time he does, though, is when I haven’t done my every-other-day litter duty. I think it must me a for of communication. 