Causative Have: "I had my dog lick my hand"
I've learned the causative have some other web site, and that read like that Have means "to give someone the responsibility to do something". I could rely on this rule so many times until I stumbled across "I had my dog lick my hand". Did the speaker really give certain responsibility to lick his hand? Or did he force his dog to do that? Ask his dog to do that? Convince his dog to do that? I just couldn't seem to fit this idea.

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If you say "I had my dog lick my hand", you will have initiated the dog's action, and the dog obliged.

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Often if you put your hand in front of a dog, it will lick it.

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