Huskie pups yawning

Everyone knows how yawning is contagious, but it's more true with folks we know. Not so much the guy yawning on a bus with strangers, that's ignored. When there is emotional bond or kinship, humans and our closest cousin chimps frequently share the common reflex.

This brings me to an annoying game that I occasionally tease my dog with. For certain, my beloved hound does make me yawn, but it's not true the other way around. So, then I have to kind of pretend that it's mutual. 

When she yawns, stretching her jaws and neck so leisurely, I'll then immediately do the same. But, I keep it going, licking my chops, twitching an ear, ducking my head down to my lap after she does. Little haha, right?

But, that's when I get The Look. Clearly, the dog is not a bit amused with my crude and juvenile mimicking. Instead, she maintains a serious gaze that asks, "What are you doing, silly dad? Please be human now." My son was far easier to trick as a toddler and child. He too got smart, just like my savvy dog.