Weird body parts

[Runnergirl]

Bear with me- this is my first dog and my first Dane. I've spent a good amount of time with friends' dogs, but I've never really looked at them in-depth like I'm looking at my guy now. I've noticed these weird things:

First, I was stroking his ears and started really looking at the edges. My boy isn't cropped, and along the bottom edge of his ears, there's a little scalloped bit and an extra little flap behind it, if that makes any sense.



Second, in the corners of his mouth, there's this weird... thing. Honestly it reminded me of a star-nosed mole when I first saw it! It looks like little cilia or something.



Are these totally normal things? Are there any other weird or unusual things about Danes (or possibly dogs in general) that you all can share?

[Sparrow]

My Pit has those things too (I'm pretty sure the ear thing is natural on all dogs) though the lip thing is considerably smaller.

[Angel7292]

Both are totally normal to dogs.

[SuzanneRM82]

And they just get bigger lol.

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[Titan3151]

Titan has the lips... !!

I was starting to worry if my boy was ever gonna get them... now I'm not as excited about those lips ahhah we have washcloths on a shelf by the back door ready to scoop the mud out of those corner and lips!!!

[SuzanneRM82]

Sometimes I wish the Ferg lips weren't so big. They make him pretty, but ugh. You could hide a small child in there.

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[Runnergirl]

Thank you to everyone who sent in more pics especially- too funny!

Diesel's lips are great for recycling treats- we do a couple commands, he gets some treats, we take a break to play... and then I quickly gather up all the treats that fell out of his lips while we were playing and re-use them for the next round of training!