Today’s Special: Dog Tongue (WDB #48)

This week’s entry for Weekend Dog Blogging is dedicated to the cuteness of animals being caught on camera with their tongue sticking out. Mr. Woofy will now kindly demonstrate:

Here we have the “45 degree angle half-flip”. See how elegantly the tongue has been extended?

This is better known as the “semi-forward extended thrust”, quite a common move, and one usually followed by the previous display.

Here Mr. Woofy demonstrates the rarely seen “hide and seek” move, you can see why it’s named so in the enlarged image in the bottom right hand side corner. (Edit: No, that’s not a crumb, that’s a tiny bit of his tongue! :P)

I wonder what kind of moves other pretty pooches are pulling this weekend? Check out Sweetnicks on Sunday for round-up #48!

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Comment by Lisa on August 21, 2006 @ 5:44 am Reply to this comment

hahahahaa! Mr. Woofy is an excellent demonstrator! I especially like the rare “hide and seek” move! Too cute!

Comment by Ellie on August 21, 2006 @ 8:06 am Reply to this comment

Lis - Hehehe, that’s my favourite move as well! Mr. Woofy says many thanks for the compliments (and now he’s strutting around like he owns the world!)

Comment by Tanna on August 21, 2006 @ 1:39 pm Reply to this comment

Certainly with the hitde and seek move, he does own the world.

Comment by Ellie on August 21, 2006 @ 5:12 pm Reply to this comment

Tanna - I’m sure his plans for world-domination include many tongue-poking events to disable the larger populace from being able to move against him due to being in throes of sighs from the cuteness (whoa, long sentence!). Ah well, even if he never succeeds, he is indeed owner of my heart!

Comment by Becca on August 22, 2006 @ 1:23 am Reply to this comment

What a cutie!! And here’s a “name that book”:
~What a nice tongue you have…
~Better to lick you with my dear! (Hmm…that could so be taken the wrong way)

Cute pics!

Comment by maltese parakeet on August 22, 2006 @ 1:25 am Reply to this comment

omg, unbearable cuteness!

Comment by Ellie on August 22, 2006 @ 9:10 am Reply to this comment

Becca - LOL! That could sooooo be taken the wrong way! Mr. Woofy sends a drooly kiss your way

MP - Beware, he wields the cuteness with much power to extort yummy foods from those near and far

Comment by keiko on August 24, 2006 @ 2:39 am Reply to this comment

Hi Ellie, Mr Woofy is SO adorable… my cat does the same ‘move’ sometimes, he doesn’t seem to even know that his tongue is slightly sticking out

Comment by lobstersquad on August 24, 2006 @ 4:31 am Reply to this comment

That´s too sweet! I can never get my dogs on camera when they have just the tip of their tongue sticking out.

Comment by Ellie on August 24, 2006 @ 9:37 am Reply to this comment

Keiko - hehehe, Mr. Woofy says thankyou! Isn’t it so cute when you look at them and see that teensy bit of tongue sticking out to say hallo? And they seem so unaware that it makes it doubly cute!

Ximena - Hehehe, the trick is peanut butter (if they aren’t allergic to it, thankfully Mr. Woofy isn’t), you feed them a chunk of smooth peanut butter and they’re left sticking their tongue in and out whilst you get a few minutes to snap away It may be cheating, but aren’t the results worth it?