My old Border collie mix smiled. He did a full, teeth bared, look ferocious smile. It was really fun taking him to work in the grooming salon. Everyone that came in got smiled at. He LOVED people. My coworkers especially. They liked to talk excitedly at him and get him really worked up when he was trapped on the table. He’d get all wound up, wiggling, wagging his tail and smiling. He’d start with the sneezing because he was crinkling his nose so hard and he’d make this pathetic whining noise. I miss that old dog.
My Smooth Fox Terrier, Roxie, smiles. She always looks like she is smiling. Love her!
I have had 3 aussies and all 3 smiled. My last dog was a standard blue merle and when she smiled people said she looked like a wolf. My current mini aussie also smiles and has the fastest wiggling butt in the east.
My flickr account is acting up right now will have to see if I can pull up pictures later.
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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 have a smiling Dobe now. The only time he does it is on the rare occasion that he gets left at home upon my return I get a big grin! I’m never fast enough with a camera to capture it.
I have had a few Dobes (only the males) that clack their teeth. Very off-putting to those that do not know them!
My Jagdterrier also grins. She is such an odd little dog that it makes her look rather deranged!
I have to wonder, after having many dogs I have never had a smiler and now I have two. Do they learn from one another? Perhaps my positive response to the Dobe doing it looked like something the Terrier wanted to get in on??
Our new puppy, now 8 months old, does this when she is really excited. To people that don’t know her, they think she is baring her teeth and being mean. We thought this at first when we first got her…but quickly realized she only does it when she’s super happy and excited…or when she’s in a lot of trouble and she is literally trying to suck up. :lol: Like others, it happens so fast that it’s hard to get a photo of. I’m currently trying to teach her to do it as a trick, and we’re about half way there. 
I’ve had dogs my entire life and have never come across one that’s done it before…except watching the dogs on America’s Funniest Home Videos!
Our pup smiles just like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAZ_64QoBU
This dog though, is NOT smiling. Holy crap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWukihVp3fQ
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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]
My border collie smiled like that. He did it when you came home to greet you, when he met new people and when he was happy. He used to go to work with my Mom and he would put his front feet up on the counter and greet people with his smile. They all thought he was mean. They couldn’t see the tail going a mile a minute.
Now the Border taught my Mom’s dog (who is a mut) how to smile the same way. Only he does it when he did something bad. One sided grin he knew he did something bad. Both sides crinkled up and he did something really bad. All you have to do now is ask him if he was bad and he will smile on demand.
The border would also smile on demand if you just asked him to smile.
My GSD mix has always been a “lips pulled back, teething chomping (I call him my Oscar-gator) low rumbling uuurrrrr, total body swishing” smiler. He does it when I come home from work, when seeing friends or meeting someone new at the dog park. More than once I have had people say “your dog snarled at me”…ah, no - he smiled at you!
He just recently went through 4 weeks of radiation and every day he walked into the clinic giving his friends a smile. They even tried to get it videotaped for a clinic video on the radiation treatment process!
All the smiling paid off too. He made such a name for himself that 2 weeks post treatment, he was back at the clinic with acute kidney failure along with the painful burn. I don’t think during the 4 days he spent in ICU, he spent one minute alone. All his friends he had made smiling spent their breaks and lunches with him. They told me he learned how to give heavy sighs when they would try to leave in order to get a few more minutes of scratching.
On our 2 week check-up - he was back to giving his smiles again!
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