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    Huffing and sighing noises

    Hello fellow lab lovers,

    I have a question and am curious to know if you've had the same experience. As I posted in another thread, my best friend Cleo departed some time ago and there was something that intrigued me about her that I never understood. When she licked me for a while she would always start breathing heavy through her nose kind of like she was sighing. I know ive heard some people say it was because she was excited but she was really calm and usually just laying there quietly. Has anyone else witnessed this with their labbies?

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    I would have to see it to be sure. Labs are very emotive. Hemi does a lot of sighing. She could also be taking in your scent. Dogs can smell way more than we can. They can pick up scents of what you had for lunch even late in the evening. Also depending what you eat, it could come out your scent. They can pick thing like your vital signs and other things about you entirely by smell. So really Cleo might have just kind of been taking you all in.

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    yeah i think she was just content and relaxing and taking in breaths of air

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    I don't know if it's the same noise or not but Sunnie is a really anxious dog and one way she shows it is to "sigh" when she thinks something is wrong. Which is pretty much always and sometimes accompanied by shivering. (My Hershey used to do this from time to time if he thought he'd done something he shouldn't have....same sound but he wasn't an anxious dog...and no shivering.)

    Maybe Cleo wasn't sure she was accomplishing what you wanted her to accomplish...and was getting a bit frustrated? Dogs lick themselves from anxiety/pain....perhaps she transferred an innate instinct onto you and got herself a bit anxious over that?

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    no she wasn't really anxious, I think maybe it was just her getting tired from licking for a long time. Maybe she was putting a lot of effort into it

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    That could easily be...she sounds like she was a wonderful girl.

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    have you seen any of your Labs do that?

 



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