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