What Do Dogs Have Nightmares About?

dreher

I woke up to my 2 1/2 year old Border Collie having a nightmare. She was laying beside me on our bed. I had trouble waking her she was in such a deep sleep. I know it was a nightmare because when she finally woke up she just started shaking, she was obviously VERY scared. So what would be so scary to a dog??

Knowing Bella, it was a dream about someone stealing all her tennis balls!![:D]

AzAfshin

Giant squirrels.

bigt7mm

Probably the cat turds they eat.

LaidbackDan

toilet seat hitting them on their head

mag00

m88.358win

A cat stealing their food then the bed.

buschmaster

if a dog is going to have dreams and nightmares just like people do, it will be the same weird bizarr-o things that people dream about. (a couple of Wookiees driving the General Lee across a lake) except, people wake up and say "oh, a nightmare" but a dog doesn't know what happened. it can only think it was real. whatever it was.

84Bravo1

OMG. I just had a dream that I have to get up at 4-4:30 am, 5-6 days out of the week, and go do some hard stuff, that I may not enjoy. All the while having to listen to some DA Foreman, who just walks around all day bellitteling people.

It was a freaking nightmare I tell you.














What was the question??

spasmcreek

our pooch gets some wild rabbit chases when asleep..it's a hoot to watch her twitch and bark

Ditch-Runner

I have woke our dogs up ( different times of course )
sometimes I just let them sleep watch as there feet are running tail wagging different sounds like there on a chase , our male wiener dog was asleep on the chair a few nights ago looked like he was having a good dream ,
my wife pointed to him and ask me what I thought ... [}:)] I said he is dreaming of the times before you had his nuts cut off [:D][:D]
but I have also have seen them act scared as you described
maybe some day we will be able to understand our four legged buddy's better

Oh I also have had to wake them up,, dogs seem to snore some nights also [:(]

mogley98

Wife's dog does seem to dream, as noted his legs kick and he wimpers, not like distress but like he wants something. Maybe chasing something or playing who knows for sure.

Maybe a EEG and a sleep study is in order

Old-Colts

Poor doggies, they just need their own Sleep Number Bed and My Pillow; they'll be fine! [:D]

select-fire

Buck use to deep growl and raise his lips and show his teeth while sound asleep. No way I would touch him until he woke up.

mark christian

When I was a kid I can remember a time when I saw or dog crying and kicking while she was asleep. When she woke up and saw me she literally jumped on top of me and licked my face over and over. When my sister came into the room the dog did the same exact thing to her. I can only guess that the pooch had a nightmare about being lost or separated from the family and was relived to see our friendly faces.

A bad dream must be terrifying for a dog.

grumpygy

Big cat and its payback time.

armilite

Being lost in the woods and coming up a against a mountain lion.

Rocky Raab

According to Freud the Basset, sex.

merlinn

I think my dog dreams about the vet running after him with his neutering tools!
He wants no part of that..

merlinn

I think my dog dreams about the vet running after him with his neutering tools!
He wants no part of that..

jimdeere

Chasing cars on a Nascar track.

montanajoe

all of above,,

47studebaker

quote:Originally posted by mogley98
Wife's dog does seem to dream, as noted his legs kick and he wimpers, not like distress but like he wants something. Maybe chasing something or playing who knows for sure.

Maybe a EEG and a sleep study is in order





You can bet somewhere along the way someone proposed this and tried to get government funding to do the study OR they soon will !

CoolhandLuke

Years ago I had a Pit bull blue tick hound cross, we went hog hunting many times, in his old age he used to bark while sleeping and sounded like he was on a hog, I always though he was dreaming he was hunting.