compilation of farting pets and humans very funny

Farts — also called flatus (say: FLAY-tuss) or intestinal (say: in-TESS-tuh-null) gas — are made of, well, gas!

All people fart sometimes, whether they live in France, the Fiji islands, or Fresno, California! If you have a dog, you may have even been unlucky enough to have heard (or smelled) Fido farting. Intestinal gas is totally normal, and it's very rare for farting to be a sign that something is wrong in the body.

Farts are perennially funny because they are ridiculous and a bit disturbing because farts belong in the "uncanny valley", not in appearance but in sound. Farts sound a bit like a voice, the voice of the backside, the voice of the body not the immortal spirit, the voice of our smelly animal side, not the rational and articulate mind.

The bathroom is also a good place to go if you're feeling particularly gassy because it's not polite to fart in social settings, like in class or at the dinner table (yuck!). But don't worry if this happens accidentally. Just remember to say "excuse me"!