Tuesday - August 12, 2008
Dogs yawn when their owners do. A barking mad theory?
Don’t know why scientists would be bothered or even curious about this subject. But it’s a howl ok and I just had to post it.
A brief (very brief) break from crime and war and blood etc.
This week scientists claimed dogs yawn when their owners do. A barking mad theory? Mail writers put it to the test...
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:00 PM on 12th August 2008Yawning is infectious, we all know that. But new research shows that dogs can catch yawns, too. Scientists from the University of London’s Birkbeck College found that 72 per cent of dogs placed in a room with a yawning man would follow suit. And they don’t do so out of tiredness or boredom, the researchers suggest, but as a way of empathising with their master.
The scientists also discovered that some breeds yawn more than others. Border collies and labradors, for example, were most prone to catching yawns, while dachshunds, cocker spaniels and West Highland terriers were more or less immune. But does the experiment work at home? In a bid to find out, we asked some of our top writers to give their dog a yawn - with hilarious results.
Quentin Letts and Cinders
WHEN not barking at the wind or chewing on the corpses of diseased rabbits, our 14-year-old dog, Cinders, part bedlington part heinz, spends most of her days in slumber. It surely wouldn’t be hard to get her to yawn, would it?
First, I tried yawning myself. No luck. So I decided to read to her. That is normally enough to get our children yawning. We started with that temple of Left-wing navel-gazing, the Guardian newspaper, and a thoughtful leader column about bank management. Cinders listened. She blinked. Still no yawn.
It was time to play my ace: a novel by Salman Rushdie. Excruciating. Just reading it aloud nearly sent me off. And for one moment, I swear I saw our mutt stifle her boredom, eating something very similar to a yawn. But maybe it was just a bit of rabbit innards stuck in her teeth.
ISN’T ALL ABOUT DOGS EITHER ........ CATS HAVE THEIR SAY HERE TOO ......
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on 08/12/2008 at 10:30 AM
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