Canines Yawn When Owners Do.

A study shows that when a owner yawns, the dog will yawn if it heard the owner yawn.

Even if the dog doesn't see the owner yawn, it will copy it as long as it hears it. But they will do it more often if they hear the yawn from some one they know. The research showed that the dogs had empathy to human behaviours. For the study 29 dogs were selected that have lived with their owners for at least 6 months. They then record the owners yawning and the play it back to the parents. They then recorded a strangers yawn and played it back to the dogs.The dogs sat two sessions a week apart and the number of yawns for each noise was monitored. The study said nearly half of all dogs yawned when they heard a recording of a human being making a yawning noise .