OMD!!! We saw this a while ago! It's hysterical! Thanks for the laugh!!!

Jan, I had a similar reaction when I first saw this video months ago. I thought the dog behaved as if it had been hit. Then I did a little research. I have too much time on my hands (yay unemployment). The dog and its humans were on Good Morning America and explained some things. This dog is unusual. She just taught herself to make that weird face, and she is a tremendous pleaser. Consequently, she knew she had done a no-no and was distressed that she had displeased her people. She's also very intelligent and has a large arsenal of tricks. Maybe her people are also unemployed. Hmmm…

I have gone from wanting to turn in the people for beating their dog to thinking this is weird and a little creepy. But at least I no longer think that the dog is being harmed.

Shari

I did not intend to upset anyone. I was attempting to bring some levity to the forum, as there has been alot of loss recently.
Another reason I posted this video is because my first pup Tori would also wag her tail like Denver did when she was guilty of doing something wrong. I never hit her or any of my other pups.
Sorry if I offended anyone.

Cathy

Good golly no, Cathy! I haven't been here nearly as long as you and Elizabeth, but I will go out on a limb and say there is no reason to apologize for trying to lighten things up. You're right. Too much loss lately. For me personally, I did worry that the dog had been hit because of her over-the-top reaction. But she's just a very smart dog with her own unique way of thinking about her misbehavior. I wish my kids had a conscience half as big as hers!

Shari

We all have such a different view of things.  I laughed my butt off the first time I saw this, so did my husband and son.  We laughed at this video so much because our Dakota has a habit of tearing into trash anytime he gets the chance.  And when we walk in the house and see trash on the floor he immediately drops his head and wags his tail in that odd way Denver does because he knows he did something wrong.  He was never taught that behavior either.  Punishment is not something we use on our dogs.  And knowing Dakota's self taught reaction it never occured to me that Denver may have been abused.  So, in that spirit, I love this video!!  Her owners have probably done nothing but baby that dog.

Yeah, I laughed too. I guess we all bring our prior experiences to our view of this… like anything in life. We had a beagle (our sweet Bailey) who would make a similar funny face when we first came home. It was like she wasn't awake yet and her instinct was to snarl at the "intruders", but she was awake enough to know it was us and would be smiling & tail wagging at the same time. It was such a funny little smiley/snarly face, sort of like the dog in this video. I'd never seen another dog make such a face until I saw this video, so it made me laugh.

And Cathy, yes, it's nice to have some levity on here when we often get so much sad news.

Kisses from Abby to everybody,
Jackie

oh, how cute! I sure do miss my senior goldens…and the non-chaos in the home.

Sending you lots of golden hugs…

Cathy