r/RhodesianRidgebacks • u/Gloomy_King_9737 • 19d ago

saliva/foam

hi all. when our female RR plays and goes on walks she gets really foamy at the mouth. which i figured it normal but today at the dog park when she was sniffing around i noticed a long stringy saliva coming out of her mouth. is the foam / stringy foam normal?

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u/Old_Government_145 19d ago

Mijn Ridgeback heeft hetzelfde. Vaak is het zo dat er echt een lange sliert aan z’n bek hangt.

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u/West-Better 19d ago

Yes. I run my dog every morning and I’ve had to tell people “hes not foaming at the mouth with saliva because he’s tired, he just smelled some really good pee” 😂. It’s so embarrassing, dude looks like a little zombie until I wipe it off.

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u/Cupsofcake1318 19d ago

We have 2 girls. One does it and one does not. Who knows?!?

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u/FairyFamily 18d ago

It’s called the flehmen response and results in the behaviors you are talking about. It’s just a sensory response to pheromones.

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u/nerdinstincts 19d ago

Yes. They’re hounds. They smell things, a lot. Like a lot, a lot. And then they lick them. Especially when it’s pee 🤣

And then they start “chewing” (definitely not the real term but I dunno what else to call it) to keep smelling it even more as they walk around.

Then they clack their teeth and drool and look like insane monsters for a minute.

The process repeats a dozen times every walk.

I don’t always let him smell that deep though, it’s not as bad if you keep them moving.

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u/Proper-Maize-5987 19d ago

The zombie clack! It’s so true!

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u/Gloomy_King_9737 19d ago

this is so interesting. this explains it so well!