Max explains the muzzle grab, a playful behavior where dogs briefly mouth each other that only happens between littermates or close friends. It signals a strong social bond and is never aggression, though why dogs do it remains unclear.
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Have you ever seen a dog grab another dog's muzzle and wondered what the hell is my dog doing? Good morning, my name is Max and it's day number 23 of how to read your dog's body language until we run out of dog to look at. And this is our last video on the mouth. The muzzle grab is a very simple thing to understand. A dog grabs another dog's mouth. There we go. You can think of this as one big teethy kiss. Dogs that are comfortable with each other are the only ones doing this. The why is something we won't really ever know, but it's normally in play and only in play. So it can just be something dogs are doing, but they only feel comfortable doing it once they are really comfortable with each other. Which is why you see this a lot in littermates, but then also best friends. And it's obvious because two dogs that barely know each other are not gonna like each other if one of them bites the other's mouth. I will see you tomorrow morning when we're moving on to a strange topic, which is breathing.