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Do dogs have a chin

Updated: 10/9/2023
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Technically, no. Dogs do not actually have a chin bone. Aside from humans, elephants are the only animal to have such a feature on their lower jaw.

While dogs do have a tip of the lower mandible (jaw) that many people call the chin, it is not strictly so from an anatomy standpoint.

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A dog's chin is on the bottom of its face, just like ours.

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Yes, faces is not a human only term

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