| I have this friend of mine who has been my best | | | | something in between his yawns when I ask him |
| friend going on 2 years now. Anyhow, I've been | | | | why he yawns all the time.The info I could dig up on |
| noticing that he's constantly yawning all day long. Like | | | | why a dog yawns all the time was rather generic |
| he's really bored or he's just bored when he's around | | | | from a number of different sources online. They say |
| me.I should mention my friend, my best friend, is my | | | | its a form of body language to avoid conflict. What |
| dog Cuervo. He's a husky/wolf mix. An absolutely | | | | conflict I wondered? My dog has it made in the |
| beautiful dog who'll be celebrating his 2nd birthday in | | | | shade. A dog will yawn as a calming signal to reduce |
| mid-April. We've had him since he was a 6 week old | | | | stress and to console itself. Reduce stress? Our dog |
| puppy and he's been a blast as an addition to our | | | | lives the life of royalty. He has free roam of our big |
| family, my girlfriend Christine & myself. He's smart, | | | | backyard backed up to a large empty field, he has |
| obedient, playful, everything anyone would love in a | | | | tons of toys, he even has his own couch he jumps |
| big dog. | | | | on when he comes into the house. How can he be |
| But I've noticed lately that he yawns all the time. | | | | stressed? I don't think thats it.One author even |
| And I mean constantly. Whats up with that?He'll be | | | | claims we should use these calming signals ourselves |
| moseying around the backyard yawning. He'll yawn | | | | when communicating with our pets. How can I |
| when I call him. He yawns just to yawn I think | | | | compete with a thousand yawns a day? Why would |
| sometimes. I once counted and he yawned 7 times in | | | | I want to? Then he might get a complex that he's |
| one minute. Thats 420 times in one hour if he | | | | boring me with all my yawning and I wouldn't want to |
| maintains that pace! Assuming he might sleep 10 | | | | hurt his feelings. So I'll try not to take it to seriously |
| hours and not yawn while he's sleeping, that leaves | | | | about me boring him everytime he yawns. I'm bored |
| 14 hours of yawning at 420 times an hour and the | | | | to, but at least I don't constantly yawn in front of |
| total is off the charts. He might yawn 5,880 times | | | | him.Just as I finished writing this up, its like he knew. |
| over the course of one 24 hour day. How can that | | | | He jumped off his couch he was sleeping on, |
| be? Wouldn't his jaw hurt? If I ask him what the deal | | | | stretched and yawned twice, and then jabbed his |
| is with all the yawning, he'll just bark at me like the | | | | nose into my arm and growled at me as if to tell me |
| chatterbox he is like I'm going to understand what | | | | to quit telling everyone about his thousand yawns a |
| he's telling me. I can ask him anything in the form of | | | | day habit. C'mon Dad, I think he's saying between |
| a question and he'll answer back with a bark. So I'm | | | | yawns, enough is enough.Article written by Glenn J. |
| still clueless.I decided to look up some info to see if | | | | Clawson from Eaton Rapids, Michigan. |
| my yawning dog might have some kind of medical | | | | This is his first article he's submitted. |
| condition after all. Maybe he is really trying to tell me | | | | |