Expressing love for you As soon as you get home, the dog pounces excitedly and keeps licking you with his tongue. This is the dog expressing its welcome and wanting you to play with it. When the dog is hungry and you forget to feed it, the dog will lick you to remind you that it is hungry. At this time, it is better to rush to prepare food for your dog.
The smell on your hand could be that you stole the dog’s favorite things while it wasn’t paying attention, and the smell of food still remains on your hand, so the dog can’t resist licking you. Express respect for you in the world of dogs, put down to lick other dogs, is expressing their perceived higher status of the other party. Dogs lowering their heads to lick you may be treating you as the boss.
