My boy never drooled until he was about three years old. It began when we started him on epilepsy meds. Not sure if there is a correlation with the meds itself or just because he's anticipating the food with the meds. He gets his meds after breakfast. He comes in and sits patiently while we mash up butternut with the meds (a syrup). The syrup is vile (I tasted it!) but he sits there drooling great big drops of drool onto the floor, which needs to be wiped up with about two paper towels! He also drools now during training, anticipating the treats. And he drools on his walks, either side of his bottom lip is full of gloopy saliva. At other times no drool. I'm interested to know if drool increases with age and what is normal?
I've not noticed that my dogs drooling has got worse as they got older but I have noticed that all dogs (labs) level and consistancy of drool differ. Some is thicker some is runnier, and the level of drooling when expecting food is different too. I have 3 and at morning feeding I can have shoes full of drool. Its slippy and looks like ectoplasam. I'd speak to you vet if you are worried.
Thanks sdegg -- love your description: like ectoplasm. And very, very slippy! Yes, exactly that! We call our boy Pavlov's dog at that time in the morning because the drool comes as if switched on! No wonder Pavlov could run his experiments. About this issue I am not worried (amazing -- I worry about everything else concerning my boy!), but am curious to know how other Labs fare in the drool department! My sister's Belgian Shepherd never had an ounce of drool but the Boerboel up the road just had to shake her head and her drool gets flung about.
Charlie is a big drooler - he wasn't when he was a bit younger though. He definitely started drooling more when he chewed a battery (not surprising.....) and getting the burn to his mouth all healed up was a big drool event. He never really returned to normal drool levels after that....slobber and drool - everywhere, all the time....
Riley drools like a demented beast if we're eating something he wants. Apart from that he's very pleasant in the drool department. Obi spaniel on the other hand......................is a slobbery, drooly mess quite a lot of the time
My three year old Lab has suddenly started to drool as I get his meal ready, so no sitting and waiting as the kitchen floor gets slippery - euch!
Please don't tell me it's worse as they get older! I've not seen Shadow drool once since we've had him, but Willow..... oh, Willow. When I'm preparing food - either hers, or ours - there is always a matching pair of puddles on the floor in direct line with her jowls. When we go for walks, she obviously keeps on producing it and then her sniffing seems to make it effervesce until she looks like a rabid beast. This is one of the many and varied reasons I prefer to throw treats rather than deliver them to mouth
Lady only really drools in anticipation of food or if she's been chewing grass. As her head is entirely given over to looking pretty and the rest of her body is dedicated to drool production she can produce it in large volumes when necessary (which kinda detracts from her pretty head look).
Scooby was like a waterfall while waiting for his dinner - the kitchen was awash with that slippery ectoplasm described by sdegg - and his food bowl (and water bowl) was really hard to wash - it used to take hot water followed by hot water & washing up liquid, then neat washing up liquid, rinse in hot water & a final rinse in cold water. Coco is now using the same bowl - no icky-slime - fingers crossed it stays that way
yep I have my dogs wait in the living room when I do any food prep theirs or ours and shut the door as Rory now treats baby gates as a suggestion to stay on the other side not a rule. If they cant see what I'm doing its not so bad. Rory has the sticky ecto alien goo thing more than the others theirs is just slimy. It hangs from his mossy chops like silly string
Simba didn't drool at all until about 6 months ago, then I noticed a bit of drool if he had to wait at all while I got his food. He's just turned 3 over the summer. He has some Newfie in him, though, so I am happy that so far, the drool is minimal.
Pongo is the drool-maester. It started at about 6 months. Any time he is thinking about food (which is a very large proportion of his waking hours) he has a Fu-Man-Chu long droopy moustache of ectoplasm reaching from each side of his mouth to the floor. And sometimes when he is out running on walks too. He is not yet 2 years old. If it really does get worse with age I'm going out to buy an ark.
