brookcove
Posted : 12/5/2008 2:35:57 PM
Cord's tongue is always sticking out a little. It's genetic - every dog that came from his mom's line (her and her many many full sibs, it was a popular cross) - does the tongue-sticking-out-thing. If I see a dog doing it I say, "Burtersett Lad grandpup?" and they always say yes!
Soon after I got Cord, a friend of mine and I were driving to a trial and Cord was laying on the back seat behind my friend. She looked in the back at Cord, did a double take, and then screamed out, "Becca! There's somethign wrong with Cord!"
After I nearly ran off the road (!) I looked at Cord and didn't see anything unusual. By that time Cord, also alarmed, had sucked his tongue back in his head for a second and now was looking at us open mouthed with it hanging completely out.
My friend's eyes were big as saucers but she calmed down and explained that she'd looked back and Cord was staring with the "pinwheel look" in his eyes, and his mouth was closed but his tongue was hanging out and was all dried up and shriveled. I told her that was all normal. Between the glazed look in his eyes and the dried up tongue she thought he was having a stroke or something!