Dog licks me in the mouth

[bonzaitree]

Hi all,

Can anyone give me some advice to stop my vile hound licking me in the mouth?

I've tried to hard to train her out of it- failure all around.

Also why does she do it???

Thanks!

Keep your mouth shut when your face is next hers? 😵‍💫🤔 Not being deliberately facetious but our girl does this - fanatical licker all round - so we just keep our mouths shut next to her face! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Is it a frenchie?

My dog tries to give me a tonguing too. Gross isn't it. I just close my lips very tightly and remember not to talk when his face is close to mine.

Yuk! Yet another reason why I have always kept a cat instead. Definitely no slobbering, no having to walk her twice a day in pouring rain, no carrying bags of warm shit home…

Our dhusky tries.. Very licky ddog!

Me and my bf end up talking out the side of our mouth!

She isn't a Frenchie she is a very snuggly Lhasa Apso.

She surprises me with mouth licks when I least expect it lol!

Dog or kiss? 😅

I've just never allowed my dog to lick my face from the time I got her at 8 weeks old.

I know where her mouth goes and what she often picks up. There's no way her disgusting tongue is going anywhere near my face.

Oddly, we were at the vet many years ago and the vet, who we'd never seen before, was allowing her (my dog) to lick her face all over.

Train her.

Just keep your face away from your dog. Yuck!

What is her body language like when she does it?

What a high-value contribution to the discussion... do you know where you are?

My disgusting golden retriever tries to do this. He's fucking obsessed.
Apparently it stems from wolf babies trying to gain acceptance from their mothers.
However there's very little wolf left in this bastards particular gene pool (he wouldn't even survive an afternoon in the wild) so I'm at a loss.

Just move your face?

I have a house cat who licks me loads, and her tongue is especially sandpaper like. Ouch.

Agree with the "move your face" comment. Nice your dog loves you so, just don't make your face so accessible.

Move my face?

Wow never thought of that. Cheers!

Keep your mouth shut.

It’s an appeasement response as a result of anxiety- dogs have scent glands around the jaw/mouth, so when dogs are insecure e.g meeting a new person, they lick to try and obtain scent information to establish if they need to be worried. Humans don’t have these glands so they get either frustrated or more anxious as they don’t receive any scent feedback - so therefore encouraging them to it more and display other anxiety behaviours.

if you’ve a small dog then I’d encourage the dog to rest/sleep on the floor rather than on your lap, using a house line if needed, this will stop the dog being able to reach your face and will encourage relaxed independent resting

Thank you for an actually helpful response!

It's not necessarily anxiety - dogs also lick each other as a way to bond (grooming) and also as a way to show affection.

I would just make the behaviour undesirable for her - so pop her on a house line and whenever she jumps up at your face and/or licks, use the line to remove her to the floor and ignore her for a few seconds. So basically, licking means she doesn't get any attention whatsoever.

Unfortunately if you (instinctively) giggle, say "oh gross!" or push her away, you're still giving her attention and to dogs, any attention is good attention.

You can also try praising her when she's calm and behaving well - so if she's just sitting nicely on your lap, a gentle scratch and a quiet "good girl" will tell her that calm behaviour results in attention from her humans. She should then begin to practise that behaviour naturally as she knows it's likely to end in something positive.

@SupposeItDoesnt good post, but I'd encourage a rethink of the small dogs must sleep on the floor line. They can feel very vulnerable there, and far safer up off the ground.

It is perfectly possible to have a small dog who sits on the sofa without letting them have access to your face.

We blow at our sneaky tonguer. She hates it and has stopped the surreptitious french kisses. She tackles strangers instead who have to be advised....

Please don’t let your dog lick you in the mouth. It’s dangerous.

Google ‘man who lost nose and legs after dog licks him in mouth’ and you’ll soon stop.

I don't really understand all the difficulty with this.

It's unhygienic and ill advised to let a dog lick your face, let along in your mouth.

It's also unhygienic and advised to let your log poo in your house so people generally do all they can to stop it happening.

Both these things, and many, many more such behaviours can easily be dealt with by appropriate training.