Do you wonder what your pet dog/cat is dreaming about?

[amerikat]

One of my kitties is dreaming.........I think he dreams about catching squirrels.

[murielm99]

1. My old dog, who is no longer with us, dreamed about

running. I know because one time I had her dream. In the dream, I had my arms around her neck while she was running. She was running fast, and I was streaming out over her back like a flag. The scenery in the dream repeated over and over. But she was running, and very happy. Everything was black and white, black and white, over and over.

When I woke up, I just knew somehow that this was my dog's dream, and I had somehow gotten it into my head. It was such a happy dream that I felt happy for my dog.

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4. cool. nt

[sohndrsmith]

2. I WISH I knew..! My old guy (black lab mix rescue/couch potato)

doesn't run in his sleep - which many dogs seem to do, but he *talks* in his sleep... not barking, but he has this lilting sort of "conversation" that sort of sounds like an indistinguishable Scooby-Doo. It's absolutely hysterical and I have to catch it on video. Unfortunately, he's a big black dog and only does this at night, so I guess my best bet to try to get the audio. It's funny. It sounds like small talk. : ) I know it has to do with food, food or food.

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5. That dog needs to be at Sea World. Jk...jk. nt

[sohndrsmith]

8. Actually, that orca was a present for my daughter, who is an

Orca *fanatic* and while her lifelong dream was to go to SeaWorld (which she did), that experience resulted in her full and passionate protest of it and places like it. Give her a whale watch in the San Juan Islands and she's in heaven.

Well, after she slept with her "orca" for the summer and left to go back to school in NY, my dog 'adopted' his "baby" and it has been his ever since. He sleeps with it, carries it around, tosses it in the air - repeatedly!!, nibbles on it... and, sure, it's a little grungy... but there is not so much as a ripped seam or hole or any damage to the fuzzy baby.... it's been 2 years now that Zander has had his baby. : ). And this is a guy who has wolfed down an entire cooked chicken (with bones) left out by mistake... 4 bags of Halloween candy (same reason), catches doves in mid-flight and - well, the result is a pile of feathers... So, my boy knows how to demolish things with his teeth.... and his orca "baby" doesn't have so much as a thread out of place.

Vet just determined (from examining his eyes and teeth) that he's in double digits in age. I knew he was older than the rescue was claiming (dogs under 4 have a higher adoption fee - which I didn't mind paying even though I knew it wasn't accurate - because they rescued him from the E-list and the funds help them do it for another lost/unappreciated black lab). I wasn't ready to hear he's as old as he is, though... if I could, I'd have him live forever. He's the love of my life... When I lost my Zephyr, I thought I'd never have a dog like him again... they are so alike it's uncanny that Zander found me....




(Sorry... I digress. I know it's as important or interesting to anyone else as much as it is to me... but love makes me goofy) : )

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9. All I can think of, with those pics, is Metallica. "Search and, seek and Destroy!"

Dogs. Second coolest animals on the planet.

[WolverineDG]

11. My cousin had a collie who loved his Shamu too

so funny to see such a big dog walking around with a toy in his mouth like he was Linus & Shamu was his security blanket. :)

:patriot: for rescuing black labs! I love those dogs!

dg

[murielm99]

13. He's beautiful and shiny.

I have another Lab mix since we lost our Emily. Kinsey is Lab and Dobie. She has a friendly, winsome personality.

Of course you love your dog. I love mine, too.

[marzipanni]

20. I think Zander is adorable and it's nice that he's so gentle with his 'baby'

My dog Sally is a border collie heeler mix, and I'm afraid her frustration with lack of work every day led her to disembowel "Hedgie", her toy hedgehog. Her jaws clamping it, and shaking it caused any or all of three noises to emanate from its core- the shrill squeaker, the pneumatic 'duck call', and the rattle.
The partially unstuffed and silenced hedgehog has been on the closet shelf, awaiting a large plush graft, but now that I've seen toy animals for dogs made without stuffing, I think Hedgie will be resurrected as a floppy, empty, quiet shell of its former self.

My family's standard poodle, Mimi, made a litter of six "puppies" for herself by tearing an old, floppy, shaggy scatter rug into six strips. She had a false pregancy and carried the light blue strips from her bed to the living room and back for several days. She even lactated a bit! It was kind of sad, but sweet at the same time.

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3. paws moving quickly, like he/she's running? Whiskers moving from side to side?

My guess is it's not what you imagine. Maybe they have as crazy dreams as we do.

[amerikat]

15. Those are the symptoms

mind if I steal your gif?

[Sweet Charming Dem]

6. I think my one dog has nightmares

She's the sweetest thing, but I know she came from a really bad past. When she sleeps, she snarls and yelps. Freaks out the rest of the pets.

[WillParkinson]

7. Same here...

My dog came from a really bad place. When he dreams it's like he's trying to get away from something.

[mopinko]

10. there was an experiment on cats once,

a very interesting one. they sort of jumpered around the part of the brain that shuts out control of the body during sleep, so that they would act out their dreams. turns out they dream about being cats. chasing things, all that cat stuff.

[amerikat]

16. Exactly......they are born to stalk .

I wonder if the lab cats caught anything real?

[pink-o]

12. cats dream about taking over the world

one human at a time. Starting with us cat guardians who spoil the little bleeders, even though they scratch, bite and wake us up from our own dreams to either play or be fed.

[Arugula Latte]

14. I, for one, welcome my feline overlords!

:patriot:

[amerikat]

19. My fear is and I know it for a fact.is that

they know ways to many keyboard short cuts. My cats can just put their heads down on the KB and discover how to totally change my computer. I always say to them.........you know you can't type
so why do you do it. They just purr and will not answer. They are catty and tech savy .

[Brickbat]

17. I always figure they're dreaming about tearing me to pieces.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Cat stuff, mostly food-related.

Or maybe something we can't even imagine.