7 Surprising Reasons Why Dogs Lick Human Beings And What It Means

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2. Communication

Communication is often associated with being verbal, involving sound, or some obvious forms of body language, like when dogs wag their tails. Likewise, this leads us to think that a dogs bark means that they are trying to tell us something or warn us of something.

However, licking and few other less stereotyped gestures may also be forms of communication. They may be trying to tell us that they want something from us, like some food, water or going for a walk.

In some cases they may be trying to cheer us up like when we are sick or sad. Or for all you know, you happened to have some food on your face and they saw a chance to lick it off. Who knows? Whatever it is, we must learn to interpret what our furry friends’ behavior means.

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