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