More recent evidence proves that the major contribution to the smell of flatus comes from a combination of volatile sulphur compounds (vsc).[5][12] it is known that hydrogen sulphide (h2s), methyl mercaptan, mm (also known as methanethiol, mt), dimethyl sulphide (dms), dimethyl disulphide (dmds) and dimethyl trisulphide (dmts) are present and cause the smell.Those compounds are the one percent that cause the smell.
Symptoms include a whitening of the lens, which is a clear part of the eye needed for focussing, and the problem impairs sight and may even lead to blindness. The whitening or cloudiness is opaque and thus cannot be seen through. Inherited cataracts can occur at any age in the affected dog.
Dogs most often suffer from senile, or old age cataracts; almost all dogs older than eight years suffer some degree of cloudiness to the lens of the eye. Cataracts in dogs also may result from diabetes mellitus when the lens protein is injured by metabolic changes.