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Contagious yawning in dogs

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September 23, 2017, 10:11 AM
Gustofer
Contagious yawning in dogs
Anybody else have this happen?

I noticed this some years ago with my pooch and always get a chuckle out of it.

After doing some googling, it seems it's not uncommon and shows an emotional connection between owner and dog.

https://www.livescience.com/38...r-dog-loves-you.html


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September 23, 2017, 11:24 AM
gpbst3
Guess it depends on the situtation. Mine will start yawning when she gets nervous.


September 23, 2017, 12:01 PM
83v45magna
As a young pre-teen, I would see my dachshund yawn in response to mine and I would just keep feigning yawns to see how far he would take it. He seemed to pickup on the fact that I was screwing with him pretty quickly, but he still couldn't stop his own yawning. It seemed to perturb him, so I stopped.


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September 23, 2017, 02:01 PM
YooperSigs
I have read about this. Along the same vein is the belief that your cat talks to you .... in the way it blinks at you.
Google "Cats communicate by blinking".


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