Our Chinese Crested Powder puff smiles at you when she is nervous. She cracks me up.
Chessies smile
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers are known for “smiling” - they show their front teeth and some people think they are snarling, but they are wagging their tails like crazy!
My SIL thought her Chessie puppy was snarling and actually spanked him. She mentioned it to the breeder and he told her that is a GOOD thing and to praise the dog.
If you Google “Chessie Smile” there are a TON of videos and pictures and breed information links that come up.
I don’t have a picture of my Maggie smiling - she does it pretty rarely now so hard to catch it!
This is a really good video of it - looks so much like my dog too! They also do the Chessie “rooooo rooooooo” sounds. Really cool dogs!
http://youtu.be/25lU9XwzK60
This is my favorite video of a “smiler” She is obviously a “nervous smiler” 
My DH was on his back under my pick-up truck when a strange Rottie came up to him and “smiled” at him. He did not grow up with pets and we had only had a dog for about a year at that point. Poor guy wasn’t sure what to make of the smiling.
He very carefully rolled out from under the truck and called up to me where I was in the kitchen. I came out to the deck and I could see the Rottie smile at me. I just yelled down. “Oh she’s fine. She is smiling”. The lack of the tail made it harder for him to read the body language.
When we found the owners they told us she was afraid of thunderstorms and was better when she was locked in the barn with the horses. They had locked her in the barn and she went up to the loft and jumped out of the open loft door. It amazes me she didn’t get hurt jumping from that high.
We did back in the 80’s. He was a stray that came to our boarding barn and I took him home to live with me and my folks. His name was Ben and he would come up to everyone with his top lip drawn back, tail wagging and people’s reactions were priceless! Dog had no aggressive bones in his body. Great dog.
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Chesapeake Bay Retrievers are known for “smiling” - they show their front teeth and some people think they are snarling, but they are wagging their tails like crazy!
My SIL thought her Chessie puppy was snarling and actually spanked him. She mentioned it to the breeder and he told her that is a GOOD thing and to praise the dog.
If you Google “Chessie Smile” there are a TON of videos and pictures and breed information links that come up.
I don’t have a picture of my Maggie smiling - she does it pretty rarely now so hard to catch it!
This is a really good video of it - looks so much like my dog too! They also do the Chessie “rooooo rooooooo” sounds. Really cool dogs!
http://youtu.be/25lU9XwzK60[/QUOTE]
My Chessie is definitely a smiler. I keep trying to teach it on command, but no luck so far. It comes with a full body wiggle, but people do think it’s scary.
She also does the Chessie roo, sings loudly for dinner while waiting in the other room, and has a silent bark she employs to get a game of tug of war going. That’s the funniest thing to see.
She’s very expressive. Here’s an example of her “so excited I can barely contain myself” face. Please pretend I’m not in the pic. Eek.
PRS, great video. Here’s another really cute video of a smiler.
My male red tri Aussie smiles all the time. I love this pic of him and I (and my other dogs): http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2332392350043029495bLifeT
He’s such a goober!
ETA: I just noticed my other Aussie (sitting behind me) is smiling too!
ETA Again: I found more pics… My dogs are my babies, so I have to post thousands of pics of them!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100102391513430.2786872.4923850&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=10100188577186650&set=a.10100102391513430.2786872.4923850&type=3&theater
As a puppy: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100102391513430.2786872.4923850&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=10100187326897240&set=a.10100102391513430.2786872.4923850&type=3&theater
I didn’t read all the posts but I know two dogs that smile showing their upper teeth. One is an australian shepherd and the other is an australian shepherd cross… I swear they are just trying to copy what people do when they’re happy, they’re too damn smart!
Rover has the wide open panting smile. When I was a kid the neighbor’s mutt would wrinkle up his whole nose and bare his teeth, and sometimes sneeze, but the best (or worst) story is my DH, who moved into a house full of ferocious Dobermans. One of the bitches took a liking to him and approached him smiling away and he ran down the hall and shut the poor dog’s muzzle in the door! DH was positive he was going to get eaten, then he got told better.
I knew a smiling Doberman. Unfortunately he was often misunderstood…
Owners moved into a neighborhood of NYC transplants who wanted perfect suburbia. Dog owners did not always contain their dog. Dog was boisterous and would come running up to neighbors and playing children, smiling and clacking his teeth. Terrified parents would grab kids and call police “There is a vicious Doberman terrorizing the neighborhood!” :rolleyes:
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Yup, that’s what Abbie does! Nice to know she’s not “abbie-normal” ( :lol: sorry, had to get that in there).[/QUOTE]
Yeah, whenever I train a dog named Abbie, I always end up calling her Abby, Abby-Normal. Hump? What hump? :winkgrin:
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Both of them “smiled” by lifting their lips and just showing their front teeth while squinting their eyes like this: http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/dorim_2005/Heidi-102411.jpg[/QUOTE]
LOVE that picture. :yes:
[QUOTE=PRS;6031800]This is my favorite video of a “smiler” She is obviously a “nervous smiler”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ISzf2pryI[/QUOTE]
Everytime I see this one, I always want to give poor, guilty Denver a hug. He looks soooo distraught.
This is a really good video of it - looks so much like my dog too! They also do the Chessie “rooooo rooooooo” sounds. Really cool dogs!
http://youtu.be/25lU9XwzK60
Only a dog could act like that because you opened your eyes in the morning! :lol::lol: Love it! Absolutely fantastic video. :yes:
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I knew a smiling Doberman. Unfortunately he was often misunderstood…
Owners moved into a neighborhood of NYC transplants who wanted perfect suburbia. Dog owners did not always contain their dog. Dog was boisterous and would come running up to neighbors and playing children, smiling and clacking his teeth. Terrified parents would grab kids and call police “There is a vicious Doberman terrorizing the neighborhood!” :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
I’ve heard some very sad stories of people badly mis-reading dog behavior in similar cases, including punishing or dumping the dog at the shelter because he’s aggressive! :eek::uhoh::mad:
Tooth-clicking, sneezing, snorting, and talking are all normal canine behavior. But some people think a talker is growling, a tooth-clicker wants to bite, and a sneezing or snorting dog is sick. :rolleyes::sigh: (Not to say that sneezing and/or snorting can’t be a sign of illness, but it’s not unusual when a happy, smiling dog sneezes and snorts.)
Many dogs sneeze when they’re pleased, such as when the owner comes home. Ever had your dog get excited when you sneezed? They think you’re happy about something. If you fake sneeze, your dog may well sneeze back at you. 
I tend to respond to my dogs’ sneezes by sneezing back at them, without really thinking about it. I’ve even caught myself sneezing a response to my dog in the show ring. :rolleyes::eek::lol:
I do! This is my BC mix, Stella…
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34gnh9z&s=5
YES! My border collie mix “submissive smiles”, full teeth. It’s hilarious! She will do it when she’s being playful or nervous and if you do it to her she’ll do it back. I have yet to get a good picture of it, but it is sooo funny.
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This is my favorite video of a “smiler” She is obviously a “nervous smiler”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ISzf2pryI[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol:
My dog (pit bull) has a few different smiles - one is his “I’m so happy you’re home!” smile, where he scrunches his nose and bares his teeth a little bit, and the other is his closed-mouth “I’m so content” smile, where the corners of his mouth curl up. So cute! He also does the full-on big-mouth pit bull smile
Mom used to have a Jack Russell that did, would wag, dance and roll her lips up so hard she’d sneeze… interesting about it being a submissive gesture… some of the video links did indeed look like submission, but Cooper didn’t look quite like that … the similarity is in the bared teeth, and ends there, (Denver in the guilty video looks sad! with his “smile”) Cooper was VERY happy high energy when she did it… and was alpha bitch all the way…
She also did a VERY WEIRD thing we called the “slow walk” There was a small table with a cloth drape that hung to the floor… she go under it, and walk slow motion, and I mean slooooooooooow motion exagerated one high step at a time, flicking her tongue out… she appeared to enjoy the sensation of the drape sliding sloooowly over her back to the tip of her tail… if she found a bed with a ruffle, hanging jackets, table cloths that would juust brush her back… she was in heaven (and we felt slightly dirty like we were watching something voyeristic LOL)
She’d go so slow and continue past the table, into the middle of the room, creeeeep around in a slow turn before heading back under the table with the drape… I sure wish we’d had video camera back then… it is just one of those things you had to see to appreciate the oddness of
i’m on my 3rd aussie and while he’s not a smiler, my first two were.
they both did the ‘yeah! you’re here’ nose crinkle that pulled their lips opened and showed most of their teeth clenched. lots of folks mistook it for aggression, probably because it was difficult to see the happy wiggling nubs from straight on 
damn, i miss those girls.
I have 4 springer spaniels, and both Bug and Boo (collectively known as Bugaboo) are grinners. Bug especially. He will lift his upper lip and show all teeth with his snout wrinkled, head down, tail wagging. HAPPY dog. Boo is more subtle, but it’s still obvious. And at 5 weeks, Boo’s son Riley actually grinned a little. No idea if he’ll be a big grinner or not, but he sure did that one time.
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