How to Control Your Dog's Intestinal Fartitude: Keeping Canine Flatuence from Killing You like it Did Me

True story. We once had a Rottweiler named Brutus who passed gas of such an impressively noxious variety that after one such explosion I actually died. I know what you're thinking: if I died, how on earth could I possibly be alive to write this? Well, I have a perfectly reasonable example for that query.

Dogs cannot help it when they alert the room to their flatulence. The eruption of both sound and stench typically announces itself without any pomp, though with an often nauseating display of circumstance. But hey, who among us hasn't brought an entire theater audience to a silence with a truly astonishing release of gas during an ill-timed pregnant pause? Nevertheless, if your dog is like Brutus and he is entirely capable of emptying, or indeed killing, an audience at your house with an ill-timed release of intestinal build-up there are some things you can do to lessen the intensity.

Obviously, the first step is to take a look at what you are feeding your pooch. Or what you are giving your dog to drink. The fact is that dogs don't really go for dairy products the way that cats do, but there are certain breeds that seem to be drawn to milk more than others. The plain truth is that the digestive system of dogs, and cats for that matter, isn't really built for dairy. At best a dog can digest dairy products in very small amounts and giving your puppy a bowl of milk is almost a surefire method of guaranteeing some truly rank odors wafting about not long after.

The same goes for the flip side of dairy. You may think about replacing any dairy in your dog's diet with soy products, but soy can also cause some stink monkeys to come flying out of your dog's butt so be wary and monitor closely any raise in the level of non-aromatic explosions coming from your animal when you feed him something new.