<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5697dae8-c119-4bb1-a535-e2ebea0b1f53/E954A6BB-73EA-4924-BF47-0D50FE378CD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl" href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl" style="font-size: 11px;">articles.mercola.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2" class="articletitlebg">Dogs Can Read Their Owner's Minds </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl"><P><IMG align="right" src="http://articles.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2008/August/8.26dog.jpg" alt="dog, dogs, energetic connection, cesar milan, the dog whisperer, yawning, empathy" />The bond between man and dog is the stuff that legends are made of. Our four-legged furry friends are a constant <A href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/12/01/dogs-can-heal-your-heart.aspx">source of unconditional love, devotion and friendship</A>, so is it any wonder they may have a special knack for empathizing with their owners?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl"><P>A study published in the journal <I>Biology Letters</I> concludes that dogs can "catch" human yawns, which provides evidence that dogs may be able to “read the mind” of their owners.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/dogs-can-read-their-owner-s-minds.aspx?source=nl"><P><DIV>Scientists have known for decades that yawns are infectious among people, so much so that simply thinking about them can trigger a chain reaction of "contagious yawning". The phenomenon is thought to be linked with empathy and the ability to read the thoughts of another individual.</DIV><BR />Now the first ever study to report that human yawns induce yawning in dogs found that 21 out of 29 dogs yawned in response to human yawning, showing that "dogs possess the capacity for a rudimentary form of empathy."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E954A6BB-73EA-4924-BF47-0D50FE378CD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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