Fish Mouth

1 tooth, straw hat, wheat sprig, banjo music, yodeling...

My favorite Louie lip.
Louie gets fish-mouth sometimes. That's what I sometimes call it anyway. There it is in it's almost full glory. Sometimes his shiny, jet-black bottom lip will get stuck out and over his top one. It's the cute, pouty fish lip thing and it's my favorite. I don't know how else to describe it. It seems to be a thing a lot of dogs would 'fix' when it happened. You know, like licking your lips or yawning. Louie just leaves it there, let's it hang out to dry a little.

ultra closeup: fish mouth scar

Story of the scar.
Louie has a little pink patch of scar tissue on his bottom lip. We were walking up some concrete steps when he tripped and hit his mouth on one of the steps. It bled a little but Louie didn't even cry. Such a trooper. When it healed and the scab fell off the spot was pink. A little pink spot on his shiny, jet-black bottom lip. It's a little bit raised too. Louie had the fish mouth thing down long before the stair tripping incident. Droopy sad dog black fish lip. I loved it. The pink spot just helped add even more wonderful character.

Normal Louie mouth

One toothed yokel.
Now when he does the fish mouth thing, he looks like a silly one tooth cartoon dog. He should have a straw hat and a sprig off wheat hanging out his mouth saying "Durp! A-yuka yuka yuk! Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, golly. Ain't that the truth." That's my best stereotypical hillbilly accent, in writing of course. I hope you liked hearing that in your mind and looking at that photo of Louie above and to the left. Don't forget to imagine the straw hat on his head! I have absolutely no computer animation knowledge so you'll just have to try this imagination animation.
Thank you and enjoy.