[JadeD]

I am not a paranoid germ type person, but I have never enjoyed being licked by dogs. I have taught all my dogs not to lick my face.

Teek will occasionally lick my nose, and I tolerate that for the most part. It is thankfully NOT my mouth. LOL Teek had horrid breath when I got him, like literally it smelled like poop. I do not let him eat poop and his breath is so much better! I can at least stand him to be in my face. I give him hard dog treats everyday and he has a nylabone. I don't know if that is the difference or if he was eating poop before I got him.

His thing is to get on the back of the couch and then put his front paws down on my shoulders and stand there with his back end on the back of the couch and then he will lick my neck and then my ear and then try to lick IN my ear, which at that point I am squirming away from him and giggling so he almost falls off the back of the couch. He will jump down and then try to climb onto my shoulder and get to my neck again and I will be laughing so hard I can barely stop him. I usually end up holding him on my lap and petting him so he starts licking my hand and then I give up and let him lick my hand.

I will not let a dog lick my face. My mom's boxer tried to french me and got pushed off me. Her s**tz zu like to lick my face and I just don't let him either. We got our big dog at a young enough age for me to teach him not to lick me at all.

I guess I just don't appreciate their efforts or something. Even as a kid I taught our fox terrier not to lick me, but he knew he could lick my older sister all day long because she didn't mind it.