Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for March 17, 2013

My dogs’ tails are much more expressive than that. There’s the helicopter, the flip flop, the random wag…

Can’t forget the butt wag…

Psychology Today article about tail wags.

I call my dog little waggytail wigglebutt lickytongue puppydog.

When the waggytail dog is wagging her tail I call her Waggytail Dog. Otherwise I call her by her name.

Dogs use their tails like we use punctuation marks: there’s the straight up tail, like an exclamation mark, for surprise, and there’s the curled tail, like a question mark, when they can’t figure out what we’re trying to say or do.