{"id":473,"date":"2026-09-26T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/the-sloppy-truth-why-dogs-love-licking-faces\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:00:54","slug":"the-sloppy-truth-why-dogs-love-licking-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/the-sloppy-truth-why-dogs-love-licking-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sloppy Truth: Why Dogs Love Licking Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.dogster.com\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-happy-and-smiling-women-laying-in-the-grass-with-her-dog-licking-her-face_Jennay-Hitesman_Shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"The Sloppy Truth: Why Dogs Love Licking Faces\"><\/p>\n<p>A dog licking a person&#8217;s face can be sweet, funny, or decidedly unpleasant, depending on the timing and the recipient. It is also one of those everyday dog behaviors that can leave people wondering what is actually going on. Dogs use their mouths to\u2026<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogster.com\/dog-behavior\/the-sloppy-truth-why-dogs-love-licking-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.dogster.com\/dog-behavior\/the-sloppy-truth-why-dogs-love-licking-faces\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dog licking a person&#8217;s face can be sweet, funny, or decidedly unpleasant, depending on the timing and the recipient. It is also one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petling.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}