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TorchTheWitch

(11,065 posts)
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 10:21 AM Feb 2013

Does your dog make "yawn noise"?

Yoshi always make a great loud yawn noise every time he yawns. I mean LOUD... like either he's just had his foot trampled or he's THE most exhausted dog in the world or THE most bored dog in the world. I've gotten used to it, but I've recently realized that I'm picking up on the habit. I never used to make yawn noise at all when I yawned but now I keep catching myself doing it... sometimes even in public. Now a yawn doesn't really feel like a proper or really complete yawn if I DON'T make a big loud yawn noise like he does!

What's worse is that while his yawns are only a couple of seconds in duration thereby only making loud yawn noise for a couple of seconds mine are much much longer in duration thereby my making loud yawn noise for AGES. Then he has the gall to give me the stink eye like I'm some kind of weirdo for making such loud yawn noise for such a long duration. But he started it and got me hooked on it! The fink.




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Does your dog make "yawn noise"? (Original Post) TorchTheWitch Feb 2013 OP
Our GSD does that. Stinky The Clown Feb 2013 #1
It is the main sound my dogs make. surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #2
My KC Feb 2013 #3
They yawn, they sigh, they burp ... Myrina Feb 2013 #4
Actually, the "yawn" is generally understood to be a dog trying to calm you down... Walk away Feb 2013 #5
That's interesting. KC Feb 2013 #6
I have clients who are always telling me that after their dog ate the priceless... Walk away Feb 2013 #7
Our Jimmy dog, who passed away last year PotatoChip Feb 2013 #8
always and belching and farting sad-cafe Feb 2013 #9
Jessie "hmmmmms" all the time in her sleep. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #10

Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
1. Our GSD does that.
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 11:17 AM
Feb 2013

Loud and long when she does it.

The Border Collie never does.

The Liddle does it too, but very quietly. Not silent. Just quiet.

surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
2. It is the main sound my dogs make.
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 12:23 PM
Feb 2013

Last edited Tue Feb 19, 2013, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)

They're not really yawning, it just looks the same. My dogs are basenjis, so they don't bark at all. They "yodel" only infrequently. The yawning sound is their usual means of getting our attention. They can make the sound louder or quieter - it can be positively emphatic, but is usually no louder than a normal speaking voice.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
4. They yawn, they sigh, they burp ...
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:29 AM
Feb 2013

... they sneeze, they fart, they cry, they "grumble" ... pretty much every sound we make.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
5. Actually, the "yawn" is generally understood to be a dog trying to calm you down...
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 11:15 AM
Feb 2013

or placate an excitable or aggressive dog. Along with looking down and to the side or even just a repetitive blink, yawning is a dogs way of telling you to relax already.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
7. I have clients who are always telling me that after their dog ate the priceless...
Reply to KC (Reply #6)
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 08:47 AM
Feb 2013

oriental rug and they stood over him with smoke coming out of their ears, Fido would sit there and yawn in their face. They would take this to mean that the dog was bored with their frustration.

PotatoChip

(3,186 posts)
8. Our Jimmy dog, who passed away last year
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 03:41 PM
Feb 2013

used to make all sorts of cute human-like vocalizations including yawns. One of my favorites was a kind of annoyed 'harumphff' if he was disappointed. For instance, someone pulling something other than one of his treats out of the cabinet...He'd be intently staring at what was going on, excited enough to be oblivious of the drool, only to have his hopes dashed and day completely ruined!1!!1 At that point, he'd do a loud and exaggerated 'harumphff' along w/a dejected, slow, dramatic settling into his dog bed, ending with a kind of deep and low 'umphff'.

 

sad-cafe

(1,277 posts)
9. always and belching and farting
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 11:42 PM
Feb 2013

I have never heard dogs with as much bodily noises as we have heard with our beloved boxers.

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
10. Jessie "hmmmmms" all the time in her sleep.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 01:59 AM
Feb 2013

It cracks me up.

She also is a noisy yawner and water drinker...You can literally hear "Slllurrrrrp" when she drinks.

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