Smell your breath?

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

In the past couple of months 1st Stuart and now Rooney do this strange thing where they get right in my face, place their nose almost on my mouth and very gently sniff my breath for several seconds.  Rooney has also done this to my ear a few times.  Dh has seen them both do it and he agrees that it seems really strange.  Do they think my breath is bad?  I have heard of dogs being able to detect illness but I feel fine - so what gives?  Any ideas or does anyone else have a dog that does this?

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Jane...maybe they have become your new breathilizer testers to make sure you didn't have too much wine!!!  lol  I bet they really missed you while you were gone.  Was that the longest you have been away from the boys?  Did they go crazy when you walked in the door?  

[Adina P]

Rosco does this.  He is not a licker/kisser.  He particularly has a fondness for morning breath.  But even if I have a mouthful of food and I am in kissing distance and blow breath at him (cuz it's fun to see him react), he just sniffs and licks his own lips.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I agree with Nancie. I think they smell all the wine you had on the cruise :)

[Camilla and Darwin]

Never had him smell our breath, but he often goes over and smells people's rears when and if they fart, which believe me is both embarrassing and hilarious.

[Ann Kendig]

Haha, since you brought up the subject, Camilla, Duke does this too! Sheba loves to sniff my husbands ears. They both enjoy smelling morning breath. Ugh!! My breath makes Duke sneeze. Poor boy!

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

LMAO - boy - ask a serious question and look what I get ;)

Seriously this started before the cruise - about 2 months ago.  Both my boys are kissers and this isn't kissing or a substitute for kissing.  It is a very slow, delicate, prolonged smelling of my breath - and not after I've just eaten something.  You would have to see it to get the sense of how odd it is.   

[Carol and Banjo]

Hahaha to the funny replies! Banjo does this too...and just to me. He seems to be trying to analyize what I've been up to......or more probably, what I last ate.

[Amy, Cubbie & Ollie]

Cubbie does this if we have eaten something with peanut butter or just ate a slice of cheese. 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

All my dogs have been interested in sniffing all orifices, both human and canine. Jack hurts my feelings every day; unlike my other dogs, who like Rosco were very fond of morning mouth, he won't kiss me until I've brushed my teeth.

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

I had a cavity in one of my teeth fixed and when I came back from the dentist and got down on my knees to hug Monty, he immediately sniffed my cheek very slowly, putting his nose exactly where my fixed tooth was. I was amazed. Aren't you glad that we don't have their sense of smell?

[Jen, Lachlan, and Declan]

Laughing my head off reading all the replies, Jane! I don't have any answers, but just yesterday my guys did something similarly strange - I'm guessing that it was something on someone's office chair (among other things, I support a group of users so I end up sitting in other people's chairs sometimes) - but when I got home both boys were absolutely fascinated by something they smelled, "Oh man, mom, dunno where you've been but your bottom's AMAZING!"

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Charlie comes up on the bed first thing in the a.m. and snuggles up to my neck and this does this to me!  Then he will just give me a little lick and go to sleep.  He does not do that to DH either!  Jane, it must be our sweeeeeettt breath!

Well, that was every morning until last Friday when Beau arrived on the scene.  Since, I am up and running by 6:30 for a Beau potty break!  I am looking foward to the day when we are all in sync and snuggling in until 7 or 8!  I am missing our snuggle time.