03/17/2022
❓Why does the dog lick the owner❓
✅Love.
The dog expresses joy with his whole appearance - wagging his tail, jumping on his chest, trying to climb on his hands, yelping like a puppy.
✅Lack of communication.
The dog tries to lick a calmly sitting or sleeping person, attracting attention to himself.
✅Stress.
If an animal, whines, lick the owner's face at night, try to climb onto his bed, perhaps something scared or excited him, many behave during a thunderstorm or hearing fireworks.
✅Recognition.
Puppies remember the owner in this way, not only the smell is important to them, but also the taste, and close contact with a person.
✅Education.
Situations of "weasel - delicacy" develop a stable reflex, it is difficult to get rid of an adult dog from it.
✅Improper feeding.
Perhaps there is not enough calcium in the diet.
✅"Washing".
A person may not feel odors that are extremely unpleasant for his dog or, on the contrary, very attractive. The dog tries to "remove" them by licking certain parts of the owner's body.
✅Uncertainty.
Animals that are often and unfairly punished can, with their tails between their legs, crawl on their bellies to timidly touch a person's arm or leg with their tongue, as in the wild, humiliated weak members of the pack show worship and submission to the leader.
✅Treatment.
The enzymes contained in the dog's saliva have antibacterial properties, accelerate wound healing, and can numb a little.
✅Salvation.
So the dog conducts a "diagnosis" of a person's condition, determines whether he is alive or not, saves him from "frostbite", massages, restore blood supply, makes him breathe, and not fall asleep.
✅Hunger.
Foxes, cubs lick the muzzle of a mother who has just eaten to make her regurgitate part of the half-digested food, so can hungry puppies of some dog breeds. So do not forget that the dog shows the owner that he is hungry.
✅Possessiveness.
Licking a person's hand or face, the dog "puts" a kind of mark, leaving its smell and showing that the person belongs to her, her pack. If at the same time she rubs against her leg, it means that she is slightly jealous and fears that someone else is claiming her person.