Re: What does it mean?

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> "Rosa Palmén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Hi
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> > I'm wondering what a dog really is signalling when it bares it's front
> > teeth?
> > Usually the ears are back and outwards at the time, but not totally
flat.
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> > Rosa
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> Is it Hobbes?   Bodhi does this, and it's a silly "grin" for him.
> I've actually seen several Belgians (various flavors!) do this
> as an attention getter because they get a laugh when they do
> it.    Bodhi will "grin" on command, because it was so silly
> looking I laughed, and we eventually got it on a command.
> "Grrr..."  and he flashes those big, pointy, scary Belgian teeth!
> Shelly & The Boys
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Hobbe does it sometimes, but not that often, if he gets excited and pulls
when he sees another dog and i tell him no in a harsh voice, he has spun
around and done it tho. His mother does it more often, and if I just
remember to reinforce it for a while, she will do it on command too. She
sometimes comes up to you and does it, usually with her head almost straight
out from her body or then she stretches her front paws towards you, kinda
bows, sticks up her nose and grins. She usually then puts her head in your
lap cause she wants to get petted. When she comes and pushes her head in
your lap she never does it, it's only when she does her slow approach that
she grins that way.
Yala doesn't do it anymore, she used to if i would blow in her face. When
she was young I would blow in her face and she would snap so close to my
nose that i could sometimes feel her whiskers. Then when she got older it
seemed like she didn't think this was appropriate behaviour and we stopped
it.

Rosa