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What made you smile today?
- Thread starter snowbunny
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- Location
- Andorra and Spain
This face! She was full of beans on our afternoon walk!
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
How very very wonderful! She has a beautiful smile! No wonder it made you smile! It's also made me smile! You'd have to be made of stone to not smile at that happy face!
- Location
- SW London UK
Nearly being completely taken out by a very handsome grey 9 month old Great Dane on our walk in Richmond Park this morning. The pup was having such a great time zooming around Homer and trying to engage him in play, all legs and wiggly body, but OMG he was huge!
- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Good grief!!!! 
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Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
During a rare moment when the sun was shining on the carpet in the hallway today I noticed that Joy must have started her first real proper grown up (well, nearly) moult. This meant getting out the Furminator. We have had a few practices with this, but not many, and in the past she has always tried to lie down on the bit I was attempting to brush. It had to be done though, so talking quietly to her I started to brush......and bless her, she just stood and let me do it! Then I noticed that she was licking her lips. She does this when I put her Ruff and Tumble 'dressing gown' on, probably because she knows she gets a treat as soon as she lets me put it over her head.So when I'd finished, she got a treat of course. I just wondered if she's starting to associate letting me do something she doesn't particularly like with getting a reward.Funny, clever little girl if she is! It did make me smile though, and then she licked my face when I'd finished, which made me smile some more!
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Ella, my dog that thinks she's a human
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
I just love it when they sit like this - Red does it often and I call it her ‘puppy sit’ but of course she's not a puppy anymore.
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- Andorra and Spain
Lip-licking is often a sign of a dog being uncomfortable. Not always, of course, but it's one of the classic "I'd really rather you didn't do that" signals.
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
Oh dear! How do you tell the difference between lip licking in anticipation of rewards and lip licking because she's uncomfortable?She also licks her lips when racing back to me in recall and walking alongside me off lead when we're practising 'with me'.Oh yes,also when she watches me eating toast.(Me? feed my dog morsels of toast at the table? Never!)
Boogie
Moderator
- Location
- Manchester UK
I’d say it’s the look on their face and body language. Unhappy lip licking has ears back and a stiff face/body. Happy lip licking has ears floppy, waggy tail and relaxed body and face.
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- Herefordshire, UK
I think I might be right in saying that they can also do this when they have something going on in the digestive system, maybe hungry and/or in anticipation of food coming, or some sort of gastric upset. Certainly I have known Cassie do this when she needs a poo, and just prior to the very few times she has vomited.
I guess really it comes down to knowing our dogs.
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
Oh thankyou! Looks like we're OK then, she definitely didn't have her ears back or a stiff face or body. I'd hate to think I was doing something that made her feel uncomfortable.
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Of course you would!
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- Andorra and Spain
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- Cornwall , UK
Watching Reuben , on his first trip to the beach , wide eyed stare at the sea , then just looning , throwing a lump of seaweed around . He wasn't too keen on the sea at all , which is fine , and frankly he seems to get more out of being in woodlands x
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
Thanks, Fiona, really interesting to watch and has stopped me worrying!
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Ella! What a classic, and the look on her face 'what? Why are you laughing?'Ella, my dog that thinks she's a human
I smiled yesterday (or rather the day before) when Maxx did his first 'down' with just a hand signal and no treat.