Yawning/yawning noises

[Lennard 10]

My dogs make a lot more yawnings/yawning noises than say the collie of my parents. On the internet there is a lot of discussion about what dogs' yawning means...stress or positive emotions, or none of both...

 

What do you think? When do you dogs yawn? Do your terriers yawn as much as your running dogs?

 

L.

[cymruguy69 5]

My terrier yawn just before she sleeps and just after she wakes up! My lurcher Yawns when she comes out of the kennel 5 in the morning! :lazy:

 

But This must be normal! If their tired they sleep!! or Yawn!!

[Lennard 10]

Yeah...but I mean the exagerated yawn that ends with a whine...they sometimes do that when they have to wait or see things...

 

L.

[SkinnyMan 11]

My yawns just as your about to take her for a walk which ends in a massive howl, must just be excitement with her

[weejohn 3]

when my max is happy he makes noises when he yawns, i would of said it was quite normal.

[Neal 1,875]

I've heard that it's a social thing, like a pride of lions all yawning and licking their chops when they wake up, set off hunting or return from a hunt. It can also be used as a kind of appeasement, unless I'm getting it mixed up with the licking lips.

[skycat 6,174]

Your on the right track there Neal: it's kind of a calming thing. If your dogs are getting agitated cos it's time for their exercise try giving a big exaggerated yawn yourself: then watch your dogs, it calms them right down. It is a good stress diffuser.

[Neal 1,875]

Thanks Skycat, that all rings a bell. I've got a small book, more of a pamphlet really, by a woman from Scandinavia called "calming signals" but not looked at it for a few years.

[Eggy 0]

Well you can't compare humans & dogs, but apparently in humans (quite a bit of novel research on this topic recently) is to "cool" the brain so to stay more alert in a social setting....so to prevent "dosiness" really

 

Cheers

 

Eggy

[juckler123 707]

Im gettin sleepy reading this all the talk about Yawning.

Mine do it every morning first thing just like me and the little pup is fair vocal with it.