My 33 lb jindo female dog growls while licking my 80 lb female Great Dane mix dog’s face. The GD either stiffens up or sometimes wags her tail and licks her back.

To be clear: the same dog is doing both the licking and the growling at the same time. I’m posting here because I wasn’t able to gather much from a google search; it kept generating results where one dog was doing the licking and one dog was doing the growling. Both dogs are roughly the same age and both dogs are spayed.

They are both rescues from dog meat farms in Korea. The Jindo doesn’t do this with my three male dogs. Thank you for any insight.