Ok, we have a dog, she's quite a timid dog that barks at her own shadow, and she loves being snuggled and things on the sofa and we have never seen her attack a small animal she always just wants to play (in fact the ate a spider once and spat it back out 
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She always seems to lick my guinea pig whenever it get her out, she'll sit there and lick for a while get up have a look around and lick her more and keep doing this for ages, I'm always sitting with the guinea pig (just in case the dog does something silly), but I left them alone once for like an hour and they just slept together on the sofa. I'm just wondering if this is any specific behaviour? Our dog is a bitch, i.e. a girl, and we had her neutered very early on so she never had any puppies, and we're thinking she's maybe treating the guinea pig as a puppy she never had? Or is it just simply her being affectionate?
Thanks.
). She always seems to lick my guinea pig whenever it get her out, she'll sit there and lick for a while get up have a look around and lick her more and keep doing this for ages, I'm always sitting with the guinea pig (just in case the dog does something silly), but I left them alone once for like an hour and they just slept together on the sofa. I'm just wondering if this is any specific behaviour? Our dog is a bitch, i.e. a girl, and we had her neutered very early on so she never had any puppies, and we're thinking she's maybe treating the guinea pig as a puppy she never had? Or is it just simply her being affectionate?
Thanks.