Making Out

Azuki is a pup with many interests, and I have already posted how she likes to roll in other dogs' poop, play in out suitcases, but I keep forgetting to catch her nose cleaning activity on film.

The Pup likes to lick people. She likes faces, noses, and ears, all places where yummy face oil/mucus/ear wax exit, but she also likes to lick our legs when we get out of the shower (when we are still wet), or when we put on lotion. At times, she just licks her own lips, making loud, SLURP SLURP SLURP sounds on her own, or seemingly licking the air when she first meets someone to show goodwill. You might think it sounds cute and harmless, but actually, her tongue resembles that of serpent, long and flickering, and if you don't watch out she will sneak up on you with a hop, and stick it right UP YOUR NOSTRIL, where no other object except dust and air have traveled. In fact, I don't think any other object besides air and dust SHOULD travel.

I am not a big fan of face licking, so I usually avoid it and she seems to know not to come to me for her daily dose of face oil. The reason is that besides the crap she licks while she is on walks, she also sometimes licks her own pee at home after she pees on her potty pad. It's as if she is confirming to herself, "hmmm, a little salty, but yeah, it's my pee!"

The first time Matt saw this we were sitting on the couch and watching TV. The discovery went like this:

"WOA. What is she doing?"

"She likes to taste her own pee after she does it. I don't know why" (my eyes still glued to the TV)

"HALLO?? Why didn't you tell me??"

"Why should I tell you? It's no big deal. She licks other dogs' poop sometimes too when I walk her."

"BUT SHE LICKS ME!!!!!"

"Oh yeah. hahahah. sorry."

The other night, I conqured the difficult task of taking a photo of Azuki doing her ritualistic nose cleaning on pa. This is indeed no small feat, because we have a "no face" rule on this blog---well, Matt has a rule that I cannot post any pictures with his face showing. I somehow managed to get Azuki and only half of his face as to render him unrecognizable. Notice he has to close his upper nose with his fingers so her tongue doesn't get up there, because he says it seriously hurts!

Look at that tongue!