Overview of what relaxed mouths, tongue flicks, lip licks, and tension yawns indicate about doggy mood states.
Mouth Cues
Examples of furrowed, relaxed, cocked, and flashing eyebrow movements dogs make when experiencing certain emotions.
Eye Brow Raising
Interpret emotions like alertness, trust, uncertainty, and guardedness from ear erectness, rotating, pinning back or down
Ear Positioning
Signals of sureness like head high tail wagging vs insecure lip licking and half-moon eyes.
Confidence Displays
Tongue out smiles, soft eye crinkles, ears perked up, bouncy movements indicate doggy glee and excitement.
Joyful Signals
Lip smacking, avoiding eye contact, tense jaws, excessive blinking/yawning point to dogs feeling anxious or overwhelmed.
Stress Signs
Frozen stillness, diluted pupils, forward ears, lowered head/body can signify concentration in anticipation of action.
Focus & Anticipation