Helthf... hi thungue ith thuck!

I have a dog

My dog lick all sorts of things, including me.

Sometimes his tongue gets stuck.

Now... we are not talking about what happens when you take a finger tip with a gob of creamy peanut butter on it and stick it on the roof of his mouth just behind his front teeth. That is entirely different. Funny, but different.

My Golden Retriever, Danny, is going on 7 months now. Picture that long tongue stuck way out of his mouth, wrapped around the tip of his lower jaw and sandwiched back against the bottom of his lower jaw and the thing he is licking.

It may be a Geko lizard phenomenon. You know how their feet stick to smooth surfaces and they sort of peel them off. It's why they don't fall off the ceiling.

Danny will be busy licking me, my shirt, the arm of my chair or some such place and all of a sudden his tongue is stuck... evidently... since he remains in that tongue sandwich position for quite some time and looks at me like he is asking for help.

Maybe it's some sort of hyper-extension thing going on and his tongue gets stuck past the "return point". Fishing reels do that. Usually accompanied by a great knot of line that magically appears.

I've had a lawn mower do it too. Pull the cord too far and it won't reel back in. Could be like that.

All you have to do is lift his chin a tiny bit and the tongue pops right back... more or less. It does sort of hang out the side sometimes.

He never seems in pain so it's probably not a "tongue cramp". "Tired Tongue Syndrome" possibly. Syndrome is a nice useful word. Doctors use it when they have no freaking idea what the problem is. Doctors also use "Idiopathic" sometimes. I translate that as an idiots pathetic attempt to explain something they have no clue about.

I'm not too sure about TTS (Tired Tongue Syndrome), all you have to do is sort of kick start the licking process and he is right back at it. Just move the jaw a tiny bit or what ever is being licked and the licking motor in there takes right off again.

I am VERY glad he is not a cat. That size tongue applied as thoroughly as he does would be stripping meat from my arm in no time. I got licked by a Cougar one time and that is some serious licking. Believe me! She was a friendly adult but that was still one heck of a lick.

Danny's licks are worth restarting.

He cleaned my dinner off my T-shirt tonight. The shirt is good for another day now.

You know, maybe the licking thing is so good he is just "stopping in place" to "enjoy the lick".

Could be!

He won't tell. He's only a dog you know!

I have a dog whose "licker" sometimes gets stuck.

No problem.


Regards,
WebMouse