It's winter here and we've noticed Snowie's tongue is cold -- yes, we do lots of kissing! But it's surprisingly cold cos you'd think a tongue would always be warm. The vet has said he is on the cooler side of normal, and we suspect this is the epilepsy meds cooling his body. What temperature is your dog's tongue? Warm? Cold? Neutral?
Homer has just licked peanut butter off my finger so I could lure him up onto the sofa for cuddles... His tongue is a neutral body temp. His nose is sometimes warm, but will cool down again within 30 minutes or so.
Aren't those sweet kisses with the tip of the tongue just adorable. Unless he gave you the full lick? Either is lovely actually cos of the intention behind it.
Not noticed temp but always surprised at how dry Lilly's licks are (just not the face for me ). I always think dog's tongues should feel wet and sand-papery, and Lilly's certainly doesn't.
Luna's licks are ridiculously soggy. When she lands on your head, tongue first, in the mornings, you feel like you're having a bed bath
Tongues are probably cool as the dog pants to cool down and the saliva evaporates, hence cooler. I would have thought the body temperature would be the one to go by.
Snowie's is velvety and also not wet, slightly moist. But it works like sandpaper when he cleans out a pot! We always get him to do the prewash with tongue (elbow) grease.
That makes total sense re panting. Although Snowie's cold tongue is after sleeping, always surprised it is so cold.
Oban is apparently a cool dog. No, really, part of his recovery, and still, was to be sure that, according to TCM, he only ate warm or neutral foods. His Vet says his digestion is already cool so we don't want to feed him cool foods. So no more red pepper treats, which he loved. They are very sweet. But his tongue is always warm when it touches me.
I'd think red pepper treats were warming? Do you mean capsicum or chili peppers? Snowie loves licking out the pot after I've made curry - he seems not to notice hot chili.
Harley's Tongue isn't wet either. It's usually moist, and the temp depends on what she's doing or been doing.
Just ordinary red bell peppers, the ones that start out green. I've looked up food lists before and found some disagreement on which are warming, cooling or neutral.
