'Every dog has his day; some dogs have two days'---Johnny Copeland for Vineland

[Mark Kohut]

 the LAT reports that human yawns are contagious to dogs, perhaps indicating that the animals are capable of a rudimentary form of empathy. Almost three-quarters of dogs tested began to yawn after watching a researcher perform an exaggerated yawn, a substantially higher rate of sympathetic yawning than is found either in humans or in chimpanzees.