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04 May 2008

Sleep wagging. Mrs. chewie caught Otto having a good dream today.

post by: chewatadistance at: 13:51 | 17 comments

Heh, that's cute! Doggie dreams are the best. I like it when they start howling in their sleep and wake up, looking around at who did it.

posted by eekacat 04 May | 13:54

Awwww.....

posted by gaspode 04 May | 13:56

That is so freakin' cute. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 04 May | 13:59

i'd wag my tail too if i had a pillow that big in relation to me.
Shame on you pimping puppy butt.

posted by ethylene 04 May | 14:05

hey eekacat do your pooches growl in their sleep? Otto's done that a few times too which is pretty funny b/c it's not even a deep growl!

posted by chewatadistance 04 May | 14:06

I'm pretty sure I've heard Silver growl in his sleep, but not Saffron yet. Sometimes Silver does these little high pitched yips in his sleep too. I swear that dog has an active imagination.

Funniest thing tho is the howl and wake up thing. They get this sheepish look like "what? was I snoring?"

posted by eekacat 04 May | 14:35

The Bees has had little nightmares where she wakes up with a "meep." Cuddling is necessary.

posted by ethylene 04 May | 14:44

:D too funny eek! and cuddling is always necessary. Otto still wants lap time but that's not gonna last - he's gonna be a biggun!

posted by chewatadistance 04 May | 14:50

That is a-dor-a-ble!

posted by rainbaby 04 May | 15:02

I bet he's dreaming about his mama(s) coming home from work!

posted by mudpuppie 04 May | 15:24

I think Lacey dreams mostly about chasing animals, probably even our hamster, with a twitchy nose and padding feet. She gets nightmares too, wakes her up with a scared Bark! and a worried look on her face.

posted by rhapsodie 04 May | 15:58

Actually, I just remembered something a neuroscientist friend of mine told me. He said they've done studies on dreaming cats (nasty studies that involve implanting electrodes into their brains) and they've mapped the areas of the brain that are active when it's apparent that the cat's dreaming. The twitching whiskers/twitching paws are related to the areas of the brain that are stimulated when the cat's hunting. Ergo, the cat is likely dreaming of chasing prey.

He told me this about ten years ago, so my details are fuzzy, but that's what I remember. And I'm sticking with it.

posted by mudpuppie 04 May | 16:37

i am always amused by sleep eating.

posted by ethylene 04 May | 16:40

Masha whines and yips and breathes sometimes in her infrequent dreams. I go with the hunting theory. I wouldn't know if she was wagging her tail, because I'm usually in bed, and her tail sits on her back, so it kinda vibrates, instead of wags. THIS IS SO CUTE! (I just watched again.)

posted by rainbaby 04 May | 19:41

I believe the hunting theory too. Although with Otto I think it's more about eating. LOL

posted by chewatadistance 04 May | 20:18

Oooh! I have puppy envy.

The german shorthaired pointer I grew up next to was a lap puppy who turned into a very large lapdog. She got used to it when small and then just wouldn't give it up. I spent way too much time in the neighbors yard loving on that dog.

posted by Stewriffic 04 May | 20:57

It's so funny that you posted this as just a couple of days ago my husband and I nudged each other to look at the dog. Ally was wagging her tail in her sleep. So cute! Certainly beats the growling and muffled woofing.

posted by redvixen 05 May | 19:08

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