Animal behaviors can be very context and individual dependent. What I mentioned was very general and the submission aspect usually comes from face licking. Cats can be adverse to face licking sometimes due to the same reason (pecking order essentially) hence that video of the guy trying to lick his cat back after getting his face licked and the cat screaming and running away
If I make licking motions at my dogs, they just get excited and lick my face.
Animal behaviors can be very context and individual dependent. What I mentioned was very general and the submission aspect usually comes from face licking. Cats can be adverse to face licking sometimes due to the same reason (pecking order essentially) hence that video of the guy trying to lick his cat back after getting his face licked and the cat screaming and running away