[Dailydrool] Other types of drool

[Anne Savidge]

  Obviously, I've known my share of basset drool, although our first family basset, Sniffles, was pretty dry-mouthed, and our second one, Clover, only produced copious drool when my Dad carved Thanksgiving turkeys or other roasted meat in the kitchen. The Inspector, my parents' newest hound, doesn't drool much, either, but he has very loose lips when he drinks.

  I experienced St. Bernard drool on a couple of occasions as a child because there was a St. Bernard who lived down the street from our elementary school. He lived with a Chihuahua, which made for some amusing tableaux in their yard. "Igor" was very friendly and more than willing to slurp you and cover you with drool.

  Nothing, however, prepared me for what has to be the world's worst drool: giraffe. I went to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, which is one of those sort of open-pasture zoos where the animals roam semi-free and you can feed them from your car. The 18-foot-tall male giraffe loomed over the open-bed truck that my students and I were in, and when offered some of the alfalfa pellets, his foot-long tongue wrapped around my hand and smeared my arm halfway up to my elbow in drool so thick and sticky that it resembled rubber cement. Eeew.

Auntie Anne