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Your dog is hungry.

Dogs sometimes use licking to communicate that they are hungry.

Puppies lick their mothers' lips to stimulate a regurgitation reflex so they can eat the food their mothers vomit.

Like their wolf ancestors, wild dogs lick the pack leader's face as a way of begging for food.

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