What Does Your Dog Look Like?

Great question.

Xerxes will wiggle his whole body, tail whapping everything around, he'll do the pharaoh hound dance"  jumping, turning, leaping, bowing.  He will pin one ear all the way back down and then one ear will break at the fold and go completely forwards (I've never seen any dog do this before)  I'll try to take a pic of it soon.

He'll lick my mouth and then both ears.

Gaia:  Both ears back flat againt her head, everything behind her chest wiggles and waggles, her rail is wagging at about 2/3 and she'll do the pharaoh hound dance too.  Her tail is a lethal weapon and my roommate has had bruises from it.

She doesn't lick or kiss at all.

When I first get home, Shadow will be at the gate and do the Husky wiggle. Then, ears back and in a sit, he will wait to hear my phrase and then launch for the back door. Once inside, he will do the happy dance and his powerful tail will clear of a low table if he gets near it. If I keep my hand low so that he can sniff it, he won't jump up. Otherwise, he's tempted to jump up to get a touch. Ears still back and all smiles. Either we'll go for a walk or, if he's really hungry, he will grab the ball and we'll go out in the back to eat. He likes to run and catch the ball so that he can "kill it" and bring it back to the "den" to eat.

My dog will put her ears back, rush forward to greet me, her tail wagging fiercely, both side-to-side and in an odd but amusing kind of circular fashion, and her body doing wiggles. Then she will sniff me (usually my foot), press her little nose against my pants and lick my hands/arms/legs (even when I'm wearing jeans).

My dog greets me 99% of the time at the car.  I get home last so he is usually out side.  He will follow my car up the driveway and go on the deck and wait for me to get out.  (had big issues with him jumping on cars in the beginning so we trained him to run to the deck when cars came into our yard).
 
The minute my car door opens he comes a running, up on my lap with millions of kisses!  Head held high, tail wagging and butt wiggling.
 
Other than that he is in his crate when someone first gets home and he just sits there and wait for us to let him out.  He gives a short hello and out the door for potty.  He is also use to use ignoring him when we first come home so he doesn't get all that excited if he is crated.
 
If he is in the house and free when I come in, he will run to me and quickly drop him butt to the floor, while his tail is sweeping the floor.  The minute I bend down to say hello, he is up in my face and kissing me hello.
 

Most BCs are not wigglers. [] Ben and Doug know me so they run laps around me, tail low but waving slightly, half an eye on me and half an eye on where the sheep are. They are saying, "Now? Now? Pick me! Pick me!"

Rocky pup leaps in the air. We are working on that one. [8|]

Ted pup has been trained from the beginning to sit - he's very deliberate but confident in everything he does, even though he's only twelve weeks old. He knows how to use those puppy eyes already - he's got really dark eyes which are really weird to me, being used to lighter colored eyes. Hard to read. He looks philosophical even when he's planning mischief.

Cord is a worrywort so he does the "hopeful slink" - a toned down version of "Pick me! Pick me!". I'm working on his comfort around me with some "trick" training.

Curly holds his tail in a Nordic breed type curly-Q. I really wondered about his purebred status for a long time, until I worked him on sheep the first time. The curly tail thing is just Curly, though.

Maggie is top dog and has to exert her right to greet me first and do it with her feet off the ground. We're working on that. She's going to be thirteen in December. We're not working very hard on it, needless to say.

Zhi does boingie boingie bounces - ears and body strained forward, trying to see how close she dares to getting in my space. It's cute and harmless. I'm not working on that. []

There's a bit of a contest when I get home and the dogs seem to feed off each other's excitement--or probably more accurately competing with each other. When there's a situation where only one is home when I get home, the greeting is still extremely enthusiastic but definately more subdued. When both are home it is like a no holds barred Doggy Fiesta and they both compete for my affection by jostling each other and competing for who sits closer when I ask for a "sit" to pet them.
 
Conrad gets a broad circular wag going (love the circular wag!) and his ears go so far back that they almost flip inside-out. He also makes some very amusing bloodhound vocalizations that are somewhere between a howl and a grumble--he always does that when he's excited. Marlowe has a much tighter wag, tail curling over his back (that's his breed thing), but his ears also are about as far back as they can get. He does like to jump so sometimes he'll get onto his hind legs while still a few feet away from me becuase he knows there's no jumping on me until I say "up!". And they both of course have to spend some very serious time giving me the full sniff-down. Conrad usually just smells my clothes, but Marlowe must also sniff my whole face--mouth, nose, eyes, top of my head.

Ahhh my favorite part of the day! NOone NOt ever is or ever has been as happy to see me as my dogs.
Brando is a whiner, and play bow sometimes a zoomy. He is a very stoic guy but there is always a little tail wag too.
Trixie NOW TRIXIE, she's my happy to be alive girl. Her ears are perked her whole body is a wiggle and then the circles. On particularly bad days I just come in and sit on the floor and and let them climb up and get kisses. I wish I could do that everyday but we had the separation anxiety thing so it's not good for them only me.

Penny is always at the gate waiting to be the first to greet us, even though she's at the bottom of the pack. She pins her ears back against her head and wags her little tail, what's left of it. When I come through the gate, she often makes a whiney "arooow" sound and she smells my legs and sticks close, hoping for a pat. Then, once the gate greeting is over, she runs down to the back door ahead of us.

Jill certainly wiggles. She wiggles pretty much no matter what she's doing. The tail wags wildly and her whole back quarters sway in counterpoint. [] Her ears are back as well, and her tail is low. She sniffs from the opposite side to Penny and sometimes wipes her face on your legs. For some reason she does a very kitty-like face rub on your legs a lot. Then she runs off with Penny.

Once the two girls are out of the way, Pyry our little man comes to say hello. He's the top dog, but doesn't like to compete for attention. He comes wandering in behind us, head down, ears a little back, but not right down on his head. I don't really see him with his ears pinned right back against his head much. He does it when you're stroking his head, or when you're checking him over for ticks, but that's about it. He's very laid back about his greetings and he just ambles in and sniffs the backs of your legs and maybe sniffs the front as well. He likes to rest his head against your leg hoping for a pat as well. He has a natural bob tail that he can't actually move. He accompanies us down to the back door.

Good question!!!! Both of my dogs are crated while I'm gone unless it's extremly nice out and I'm only going to be gone for a short while, then sometimes I'll leave them in my fenced backyard. But typically they are crated and this is what they do

Sport - barks while I'm fumbling with the key to unlock the front door, starts whining when he sees me, then after I walk past their cages without paying them any attention he sits like he knows he should and waits not so patiently for me to remember him. I then open his cage and tell him to come out and he runs out with ears and tail high and runs around me because he's just sooo excited that I finally came back. Usually the greeting session doesn't last long because he's been in the cage for 8 hours and desperatly needs to get a drink and go potty. But his posture is almost always happy, tail up, ears up, eyes wide open, and of course his tongue is trying to reach whatever part of me it can to show me his happiness.

CharlieGirl - She does this really strange bark/howl thingy as soon as she hears me drive up and doesn't stop until I completely ignore her and walk past her cage,,,she then takes the hint from sport and trys her best to stay seated until I open her cage, although almost always she gets up before I finish unlocking the cage and I have to wait for her to remember what she's supposed to be doing. After she is out her ears go almost completely flat, her tail is straight out and wagging a mile a minute and her whole body is wiggling (must be the husky in her). We are still working on her jumping on me so usually I make her sit before I give her any attention. We then make a mad dash for the backdoor so she can go potty outside and see what exactly happened in her backyard while she was caged in jail all day (she's not a big fan of being inside for any period of time).

Oh, Pi does the cutest wiggle dance, usually accompanied by some zooming around the living room, and a howl-ey, bark-y, hilarious noise, and jumps up in the air. If no one has been home for a while he'll go right to his place by the door and sits to wait for his leash. [] I love the wiggle dance []

Max is usually waiting inside just by the door. He dances all around, tail wagging, sometimes high, sometimes straight out. He has his head up and when his head is up his ears automatically flop back.  Then come the licks and kisses.  Unless ... we're having a heat wave. [][] Then, he looks up and wags his tail, but he just stays flopped right where he is.

Joyce

Cassidy will perk up her ears when she sees me, then she always lays them back against her head( in a submissive posture) when she approaches me, and wags her tail really hard from side to side. After she's come to me, I'll pat her and rub her a little, then she runs off to greet everyone else. Cassidy doesn't lick and she never jumps anymore.

Mirelle does pretty much the same thing as Cassidy, with a little more excitement thrown in. She's a very licky puppy, and almost always flicks that tongue out when greeting (we're working on that one!), and she does wiggle back and forth some, especially if I rub her side, she'll flop down on the floor for me to scratch her belly! And if she's very excitied, she'll jump straight up the air,  kinda funny to see, but she's not jumping on me, but springing straight up. She is getting better at not jumping on people!

Emma's ears go back, her butt goes down, everything wiggles, and she licks a lot. She gives very sweet, very submissive greetings.

Teenie's tail beats everything, like it's a whip. Her ears go forward, she leaps through the air, and licks forcefully. She's a much pushier dog, at this point. We're working on that.

This has been so much fun imagining your dogs going through their greeting contortions - and I can't help it, houndlove, I totally get the hound jostling thing.  Even if you only have one hound, you get that!