# I pit The Cloud of Poisonous Gas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652 "2007-09-27T07:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/21 "2007-09-27T21:18:53Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] In other words, picture a dog giving you a look like a cat. (\*\*\*\* [/QUOTE] That look is not possible coming from a cat. Cats do not have eyebrows that move. Which is one of the 1001 reasons I prefer dogs. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/22 "2007-09-28T17:44:36Z")
One of my dogs has the ghastliest um, gas, and I feed her the same as I do the other dogs. She just has digestive problems. I get a bottle of digestive enzymes from the vet when she is having an episode, and when she is her emanations will wake me from a sound sleep, it is truly awful. The enzymes get her digestion back on track right away. Something else you may want to run past your vet. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/23 "2007-09-28T18:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] That look is not possible coming from a cat. Cats do not have eyebrows that move. [/QUOTE] Cats do not _need_ eyebrows that move. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/24 "2007-09-28T19:43:02Z")
Somebody has to say this… if the vet can’t clear this up right away, you probably owe it to your job applicants to clear the air on this problem either in [your job ad](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438031&page=1&pp=10) or when they come to interview, even though the latter route is a late disclosure… but how the heck does one incorporate this in a classified? :o ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/25 "2007-09-28T20:01:43Z")
You might try sprinkling brewer’s yeast on his food. It tends to make the farts smell like brewer’s yeast. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/26 "2007-09-28T21:46:09Z")
[So it’s you dog’s fault](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnSoevsqzXQ). ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/27 "2007-09-28T21:59:26Z")
Our golden retriever has all kinds of anxiety issues, and one result is that each evening after his evening treat, as he relaxes into a deep sleep lying _right_ behind me in my home office, he proceeds to let out a series of SBDs that have a stench powerful enough to on occasion drive me from the room, and at the least force me to keep an industrial-sized can of Lysol handy. He eats _exactly_ the same food as our lab, who has no farting problem to speak of – although at least when he does produce one of his (fortunately rare) exceptionally foul-smelling farts, we can _hear_ it so we have warning to flee before the aroma reaches us. Neither dog gets anything exotic foodwise; they’re dogs, so they get to eat dog food. The only human food they ever get is an occasional treat of meat scraps or green beans, which they both _adore_. The only difference between the two dogs I can think of is that our golden takes anti-anxiety medication. But even when we first adopted him and he was being over-medicated by the rescue, so we took him off it completely for a while and then weaned him back on slowly to adjust the dosage properly, he _still_ produced his evening fart symphony. I have come to the conclusion that some dogs just fart more than others. If the vet can’t find any other solution, my best advice is to learn to live with it. And keep the Lysol handy. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/28 "2007-09-29T02:14:44Z")
You don’t have to get a vet to do anal glands – at least some groomers, including the one I work for, will do them. And unfortunately I am expected to eventually learn to do them myself. Ewwwwwwwwwww… We had a golden come in today whose owner wanted us to double check his, because he was soooo stinky that they’d actually had his glands removed (!) but was still stinky. I don’t think I convinced her that he really could have rolled in something that awful (which he easily could have, you know dogs), but I did tell her that I couldn’t feel anything like anal glands back there. They can be hard to find, but that sweet dog let me grope at his ass for a couple of minutes until I was satisfied that there just was nothing there to come out. ETA: Ah, the fun of working with dogs! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/29 "2007-09-29T15:43:39Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] but that sweet dog let me grope at his ass for a couple of minutes until I was satisfied that there just was nothing there to come out. ETA: Ah, the fun of working with dogs! [/QUOTE] _snerk_ Try owning a gelding that needs frequent sheath cleanings. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/30 "2007-09-29T16:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] _snerk_ Try owning a gelding that needs frequent sheath cleanings. :eek: [/QUOTE] :eek: :eek: The oddest part was that since he was clean, including back there, I wasn’t at all bothered by what I was doing. The things you can get used to. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/31 "2007-09-29T16:41:26Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] And here I thought it was another thread about O’Reilly or Coulter. [/QUOTE] _Ewwwwww!_ ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652/32 "2007-09-29T18:56:21Z")
At least give your dog a box of matches and train him on how to light flamethrowers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cloud-of-poisonous-gas/420652.md?page=1)