Like us, dogs sometimes just yawn when they're drowsy. If your dog yawns when he's stretching and just getting up from a nap, or when he's curling up in his bed for the night, there's a good ...

Contagious yawning or yawn-mimicking behavior is common in humans, monkeys, and now dogs. Mimicking behavior is generally a subconscious emotional response that is driven by a close connection, so ...

Do you ever wonder how much your dog cares about you? Science may well now have a test to help you discover just how ...

If a yawn is trying to communicate something, then what is trying to say? Direct observations of canine behavior have shown that dogs that are under stress are more likely to yawn. In dog ...

Dogs yawn for different reasons. In dog language, the yawn may indicate stress, a way of saying, "I've had enough." Dogs use this body language to avoid conflict.

Dogs yawn after their owners do, but not after strangers A golden retriever puppy yawns during the American Kennel Club's most popular purebred dog in America news conference in New York in 2009 ...

Dogs Yawn Contagiously Too Like humans, dogs are prone to yawning when they see someone else do it—and a new study shows that they yawn most frequently in response to their owner ...

Besides people and dogs, contagious yawning has been observed in gelada baboons, stump-tail macaques and chimpanzees. Humans tend to yawn more with friends and acquaintances, suggesting that ...

Dogs yawn contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner's yawns than to a stranger's, according to research published August 7 in the open access journal ...

When a dog yawns, it may mean that he is under stress or that he is using it as a signal to try to calm a stressful situation.