Man’s best friend, it is believed, can catch the need to yawn from his/her master, too. When someone nearby yawns, for whatever reason, we tend to yawn, too. A researcher at the University of London is claiming that domestic dogs will yawn out of sympathy as well.

Um, don’t these researchers have better things to study than dog yawning habits? Anyway…

Chimps will yawn out of sympathy much like humans do. The researcher became intrigued when his dog yawned right after him. So, he tested his theory on friends and their pups. Sure enough, dogs empathize, too. Dog’s yawned in 72% of incidences compared to 65% of such cases with human-to-human and chimp-to-chimps.

Researchers still aren’t sure why. I say we ask Rover. “Woof, woof!”

In any event, it seems evident that Spot has the ability to empathize with his master. Friends don’t do it, and wives can be way out of touch. But, at least the dog understands.

Is your dog yawning?

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Snuppy, not to be confused with a similar sounding famous beagle who appears worldwide in a comic strip with his master, Charlie Brown, is the world’s first cloned dog. Shows to go you what I know or don’t know as the case may be. I didn’t know that was the dog’s name, did you? I did know the first cloned sheep’s name was Dolly.

Anyway … Snuppy has had pups.

Snuppy is an Afghan hound. Snuppy is also the pop of 10 puppies through two dogs that were impregnated by artificial insemination. I reckon when Snuppy was cloned the gene for doing ‘it’ was left out, eh?

So, what do you call the child of an animal that was conceived by artificial means through a parent that was produced artificially? How about Arty? Snuppy’s, um, creator (a dude in Seoul - Hwang Woo-suk) fell from grace when he falsified research saying he had also cloned human embryonic stem cells. After his downfall, you could hear his colleagues saying, “That sucks.”

So, we have a creator who fell from grace for lying who made a dog who’s sperm was used to artificially inseminate a couple of bitches….

Does anybody else’s head hurt besides mine?

And don’t we have enough dogs running around now, that we don’t need to make more?

I suppose that if all stray dogs had a home, I’d be more happy about the news I read where an American woman had her dog cloned in South Korea at the world’s first commercial canine cloning service. The American woman’s pit bull, named Booger, has five puppies cloned. Seoul’s National University cooperated in the reproduction.

“It’s a miracle!” shouted the woman.

“It’s a miracle that people would waste money on such matters,” shouted Bill.

The name of the cloning service is RNL Bio. The company brought frozen cells from dead Booger, nurtured them and launched the formal cloning work. The American woman said she was attached to Booger because he had saved her life when she was attacked by another dog. But, Booger didn’t save her from stupidity.  Booger, to his credit beat out a dog that was three times his size. His master suffered a loss of one hand and injured leg nerves…and a loss of connection to the brain from her wallet, IMHO.

Nobody had better tell the woman that her dog actually had 6 clones. The sixth is being raised up for dinner.

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