Penalty box!

[Lallans]

Dogs will display teeth out of submission or aggression, this dog was definitely submitting to the film maker... However, after watching this vid. I can assure you that this dog has taken some serious beats somewhere along the way(probably many times) to act this dramatic ie: the dog is anticipating his beatdown.....

I would have regarded it as a fear display, not true submission, and therefore the time a dog is most likely to do the face chewing thing I was dreaming of. Anyway, we are certainly in agreement about the beat-down part and I would hope to meet the gent sometime while I'm still young and stupid.

OK, stupid alone will have to do.

[watsonclan]

I would hope to meet the gent sometime while I'm still young and stupid. OK, stupid alone will have to do.

Aye, you and I both, very few dogs display such behaviour without some form of substantial abuse.......

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Seeing as the proceeds generated from T-shirts and things spawned by this video are going to shelters and other charitable causes, I have a hunch that Denver is a rescue and therefore may have had a previous owner that wasn't so nice.

Or...it could be that she's just the submissive type. My brother-in-law's dog Boomer (who I joked about hanging from the balcony when he chewed up my kilt, but I didn't mean it) does a cheesy submissive grin and has been doing it since he was 6 weeks old. He was the runt of the litter so it may have been dog-inflicted.

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt