Simba says....

[Amazon warrior]

....if you see someone without a smile.....

....give them yours!

That\'s not even his best smile! I\'ve never seen anything like it on a dog or any other animal for that matter (well, apart from dolphins but their smile is what you might call \"fixed\"), and I couldn\'t believe it when I first saw it. He does it completely spontaneously, too.

 

[sg2009]

nice dog lol my dog can do small smiles too lol she makes me laugh so much when she does it

 

[freakinacage]

quick! get the men in white coats

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by freakinacage
quick! get the men in white coats

Awww, you\'re too kind! I do love a man in uniform! Or are they coming for the dog?

 

[wiccanpony]

AW...your retriever has what we call a “flannel mouth”....which means the dog is so gentle that they won’t damage the game that they retrieve in hunting, a high praise among hunters

 

[sanctuary13]

both of my chihuahuas will smile, in fact Maully smiles so big you cant deny what it is, a smile.

heres a tiny one

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by wiccanpony
AW...your retriever has what we call a “flannel mouth”....which means the dog is so gentle that they won’t damage the game that they retrieve in hunting, a high praise among hunters

Blimey! That\'s not what I found on giving him his breakfast toast one morning! He\'s a sweetie, tho, and he and Molly (ex-breeding labrador bitch) keep Mum company. We don\'t hunt with them, tho. Both are \"rescue\" dogs, not because they\'ve been abused, just because no one wanted them. Molly\'d had her designated number of litters and has arthritis and Simba was born with an undershot, wonky jaw. They\'re both brilliant, loving dogs that are great to have around. So long as you don\'t mind a wet nose being stuck in your ear when youre trying to sleep on the sofa! lol

@sanctuary: Cool! So it\'s not just Simba then. I find it fascinating, and I wonder if it\'s something (another thing) they\'ve learnt off us human beings.

 

[jahminis]

cute dogs...
i love it when they smile...
my rottwieler used to have the most amazing smile...
nothing disarms a scared person like a 140 pound mean-ass lookin\' dog givin\' ya a big smile...

i\'ll see if i can drum up a pic...

cheers
jah

 

[kxtrey]

my pitbull (sammy) smiles too, only he shows you all his teeth, and to the unknowing it is scary. I laugh every time. He is the most gentle dog in the world despite the fact that he is a \"vicious breed\". i\'ve never even heard him growl at a person, and he is as gentle as a lamb with my toddlers(4 and 1).

I know i\'ve got pics around here somewhere. I\'ll post them as soon as i find them.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Amazon warrior
They\'re both brilliant, loving dogs that are great to have around. So long as you don\'t mind a wet nose being stuck in your ear when youre trying to sleep on the sofa! lol
As long as it\'s your ear, it\'s not so bad. A cold wet nose in a more \"private place\" is an instant wake up alert! My Red Setter could sneak under the quilt, which is how I found out.
@sanctuary: Cool! So it\'s not just Simba then. I find it fascinating, and I wonder if it\'s something (another thing) they\'ve learnt off us human beings.
No Its not a learned action. What we percive as \"smiling\" is a natural facial expression on most dogs. Part of their natural \"pack dominance/surrender signals\" which is meaning that they are expressing their surrender to your dominance.

Kxtrey: Pit Bulls get a bad name solely because of BAD OWNERS.
They are a tremendously loyal \"Pack Centric\" breed and reknown for their defensive reactions to strangers to \"Their Pack\".
It takes patience, as with any dog, to make sure the dog knows it\'s the human who is the pack boss. Once thats established the dog will be comfortable in their role within the Human/ Dog Pack.

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

Originally posted by Amazon warrior
They\'re both brilliant, loving dogs that are great to have around. So long as you don\'t mind a wet nose being stuck in your ear when youre trying to sleep on the sofa! lol
As long as it\'s your ear, it\'s not so bad. A cold wet nose in a more \"private place\" is an instant wake up alert! My Red Setter could sneak under the quilt, which is how I found out.
@sanctuary: Cool! So it\'s not just Simba then. I find it fascinating, and I wonder if it\'s something (another thing) they\'ve learnt off us human beings.
No Its not a learned action. What we percive as \"smiling\" is a natural facial expression on most dogs. Part of their natural \"pack dominance/surrender signals\" which is meaning that they are expressing their surrender to your dominance.[color]

Kxtrey: Pit Bulls get a bad name solely because of BAD OWNERS.
They are a tremendously loyal \"Pack Centric\" breed and reknown for their defensive reactions to strangers to \"Their Pack\".
It takes patience, as with any dog, to make sure the dog knows it\'s the human who is the pack boss. Once thats established the dog will be comfortable in their role within the Human/ Dog Pack.

That\'s true for all breeds, mind you. I\'m always simultaneously amused and annoyed at those \"dog whisperer\" shows, where some poor guy has to try and \"fix\" dogs that are \"badly behaved\" because their owners never bothered to establish clear boundaries and dominance from day one. In general, the dogs aren\'t behaving badly at all, they\'re behaving like dogs in a dominant position.

 

[wiccanpony]

that\'s me.......

for dogs- alpha bitch
for horses- boss mare
for men- yes Mistress
lol

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by wiccanpony
that\'s me.......

for dogs- alpha bitch
for horses- boss mare
for men- yes Mistress
lol

Ain\'t that the Truth. lol lol

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by wiccanpony
that\'s me.......

for dogs- alpha bitch
for horses- boss mare
for men- yes Mistress
lol

You know, I\'ve often thought I\'d like to meet you, but now I\'m afraid that if I did, you\'d grab my throat with your teeth and hold me down until I rolled over and submitted!

 

[waghorn41]

Originally posted by wiccanpony
that\'s me.......

for dogs- alpha bitch
for horses- boss mare
for men- yes Mistress
lol

yes mistress, shall I return to the WaMP now?

 

[kxtrey]

oh ya! I know all about the breed misconceptions, they are actually less \"people agressive\" than most other breeds.

I agree 100% about \"BAD OWNERS\".

Thanks for the comments though I still haven\'t found a pic of him smiling, I know they exist somewhere in my vast digital archive of photos, but where is beyond me at the moment. My fault entirely as I occasionally(read as constantly) get lazy when transfering things from the camera.

 

[A Luna]

Never seen my black labrador retriever smile.. I have seen many stupid faces and begging faces on her though.

 

[sanctuary13]

i really cant subscribe to the whole \"natural expression we interpret as a smile\" thing, as my dogs dont always do it, and when they do smile its only during a normal time to smile, like playing fetch, getting pet, sitting in the lap, or as my black chihuahua Dutch likes to do, stand on your lap, put his arms around your neck and hug you. they show other ways of subservience to my dominance (oh i dominate) when appropriate, like exposing the stomach, or, for a while, leaking.

 

[wiccanpony]

Originally posted by Amazon warrior

Originally posted by wiccanpony
that\'s me.......

for dogs- alpha bitch
for horses- boss mare
for men- yes Mistress
lol

You know, I\'ve often thought I\'d like to meet you, but now I\'m afraid that if I did, you\'d grab my throat with your teeth and hold me down until I rolled over and submitted!

no fear there AW

women show dominance by shopping, She who gets the best sale is above her sisters.......of course this a Sisterhood secret, so “We” will have to kill any male who reads this.:twisted:

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by sanctuary13
i really cant subscribe to the whole \"natural expression we interpret as a smile\" thing, as my dogs dont always do it, and when they do smile its only during a normal time to smile, like playing fetch, getting pet, sitting in the lap, or as my black chihuahua Dutch likes to do, stand on your lap, put his arms around your neck and hug you. they show other ways of subservience to my dominance (oh i dominate) when appropriate, like exposing the stomach, or, for a while, leaking.

I know, it\'s all terribly anthropomorphic! However, I have watched with interest as animals of different species learn from each other. We used to have a ginger tom cat called Fluffy and another Golden Retriever called Sandy. We had Sandy first and only got Fluffy much later. We had taught Sandy to raise a paw to \"say please\", so he\'d do it at feeding time or when he wanted attention. When Fluffy arrived, his \"notice me\" trick was to sit up on his hind legs and \"pray\" with his front paws - goodness knows where he got it from, he was rescued from a wardrobe at the bottom of someone\'s garden. Anywho, Sandy and Fluffy eventually became as friendly as a dog and cat are ever likely to, and gradually we noticed that Fluffy would lift his front paw in emulation of Sandy\'s \"please\" gesture, and Sandy took to balancing on his hind paws in a classic begging pose similar to Fluffy\'s praying, which was something we\'d never, ever seen him do before and imagined him incapable of. It was as thought they\'d each seperately twigged that these behaviours got results for the other and decided they were worth trying out.