Why Do Dogs Drool?

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[JoeProBono]

Slimy saliva contains digestive enzymes that help canines (and humans) break down their food. Saliva also wets the throat for a smooth snack-slide right into the belly. But that all happens inside the body. Drooling occurs when there's a saliva spill.

It's simply biomechanics: Some dogs, such as bulldogs and mastiffs, have such short snouts they have trouble containing their saliva and the leakage constantly pours out. Bow-wows with folded skin around their mouths, such as St. Bernards, bloodhounds and Bassett hounds, are also big drippers.

[NCC-1701]

Don't know about dogs, but when I see this:

I droll.

[tob2]

Awwww, how sweet. I have a pug and just love the breed. That squashed in snout makes them snore when sleeping. Love that snoring doggie!

[Young Werther]

Josephine the Plumber?

I'm just flush!

She could use my Crapper, (Sir Thomas Crapper who was knighted by Queen Victoria!)

EOTTH Enough Of The Toilet Humor

[theDentist]

Are you serious?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

My boss had a boxer that never seemed to drool until lunch time at the shop. He would set politely watching you eat and the saliva would just run out of him. Big bubbles on his lips. It was hilarious.There would be a big puddle below his jowls.

[Daffynition]

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

[LegalEagle61]

My dog drools when I am eating...and several times he has drooled on my lap because he is so close in case i drop something (they are great vacuum cleanrs) and i said “stop drooling” and he backed up away from my lap like he understood, and then the next time he did it, he licked up his drool off me the minute it hit my knee...like he knew it was gross and unacceptable...lol...gotta love ‘em

[FourPeas]

Why Do Dogs Drool?

Why Not?

[Yaelle]

We had 2 St. Bernards while I was growing up. We learned from the first one. These dogs are the Kings of Drool. We trained the first one, when he was a puppy, to pick up a small towel when we asked. This was usually when someone was coming in.

St. Bernards don’t just drool droplets. Their hangover lips can trail a foot-long, thick strand of ugly spittle that can pretty much ruin a pair of pants. So when someone rang the bell or some other excitement happened, we would tell him to grab his towel and he would, thus effectively wiping his own spittle AND muffling that loud bark! It worked very well and was very cute.

[BenLurkin]

[KosmicKitty]

Potato Chips

Mine drools for them, anyway

[martin_fierro]

Good Lord.

[JoeProBono]

[Brytani]

My rottie, when made to sit and wait for her treat, will cause a puddle of drool to fall to the floor, but she will not move a muscle until you break her.

My baby, Sasha

Petey Monster on the other hand finds it hilarious to drink from his bowl and come to you for a big kiss

Monster Pooch

[JoeProBono]

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[forest153]

DIW,
This is pack behavior, complex and amazing, since to them our being humans doesn't exempt us. When my Eden, an alpha female German Shepherd, was alive she whipped our entire family into a pack placing my husband, an alpha throwback male, into first place and she in second place and proceeded to herd me and my daughter until I figured out what was going on and asserted my proper place back. I found it fascinating. Over the years she was protector, friend, playmate, and when my daughter went off to university she became my ‘little girl’. I miss her, wet mouth and all, beyond words but I know her spirit has gone on ahead and waits along with our other ‘special’ family members for our family in a place we will all be someday when all things are made new. Please give your drooler a big ole hug for us.

[forest153]

Bravo!
God blesses whom He will. I guess I got in the wrong line.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Please give your drooler a big ole hug for us.”

Oh, yes. He gets LOTS of those. :)