3 Uses Of A Dog’s Tongue
- Lapping up food and water
- Giving kisses
- Heat regulator
3 very important uses to me. Of course they need their tongue to lap up food and water to survive. They have to give kisses and it is one of the ways they show us they love us and who doesn’t love a wet slobbery dog kiss? And most important use is they need their tongue as a heat regulator, dogs do not have sweat glands like us so they use their tongue to keep cool. They take quick shallow breaths the cause moisture on the tongue which evaporates and cools the tongue which in turn cools the blood flow through out the tongue and the respiratory system. Sounds pretty important to me how about you?
Have a great #TongueOutTuesday
#2 is most important!
I never knew exactly how their tongues help cool them off – very interesting! We agree the giving kisses part is VERY important!
Oooh, Chessie kisses must be BIG kisses! What a fun post! Happy ToT
We’re kind of partial to #2 even though #’s 1 & 3 are super impawtant. 😉
Number 2 is also my favorite use for a dog’s tongue!
Also a good indicator in scent sports…a panting dog with tongue out is not working. They can’t sniff if they are panting, so when panting stops, they have found something.
Aspen is definitely using his for all three in this weather.
We get better shots for our longest tongue contest when the weather is hot – proves your point.
I like the giving kisses point!
We saw lots of tongues out at the hot hunt test last weekend.