Do you wake your pet up when they are having a nightmare?

[FP]

My dog yips and my cat shakes when they are having a nightmare. It is sorta cute but I feel cruel not waking them up so I always eventually do.

They always look so pleased to be back in reality.

 

[FoBoT]

as far as i can tell, my fish don't have nightmares

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: binister
My dog yips and my cat shakes when they are having a nightmare. It is sorta cute but I feel cruel not waking them up so I always eventually do.

They always look so pleased to be back in reality.

gotta wonder if its a nightmare, or just a very exciting dream. I wonder... but I tend to wake them up, by over break I was kind of cruel to my puppy and let her continue in the dream/nightmare world... just cuz she was so damned adorable when twitching and making little whines. She's vocal as hell when awake too, and its just adorable to have her at your feet doing her little purr/whine, she talks to us. lol

 

[Deeko]

My dog doesn't really sleep if I'm awake - he'll lay there with his eyes closed, but if I so much as move he gets up....hence, I've never seen my dog have a nightmare.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

No, I watch and laugh at them.. Then i scratch them with galvanized nails and pull their fur.

 

[se7en]

Depends on if my "cat beating" stick is around or not.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

In the past, someone had told me it's bad to wake them up in the middle of a nightmare. Of course, I have no proof that it's fact..

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: binister
My dog yips and my cat shakes when they are having a nightmare. It is sorta cute but I feel cruel not waking them up so I always eventually do.

They always look so pleased to be back in reality.

I've never observed ANY of the cats I've had dreaming, but with the dogs I've had, the soft, higher pitched yips and movement of the legs looks for all the world like they're dreaming of chasing prey.

So, no, I never woke them up.

 

[jandrews]

i just assume they are dreaming

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Deeko
My dog doesn't really sleep if I'm awake - he'll lay there with his eyes closed, but if I so much as move he gets up....hence, I've never seen my dog have a nightmare.

same. My dog is so co-dependent it's crazy. When I lived alone I never closed the bathroom door so she would come sit on the bath mat whenever I whenever I did anything in there. Now she gets upset when i actually close the door, lol. She lays down in front of it to make sure I can't get away without here knowing.

 

[nakedfrog]

I've never presumed to know whether it was a bad dream or a good dream, so I leave them to it.

 

[ranmaniac]

I've woken up my cat a couple times, I'm guessing it was more of a vivid dream or something.

 

[Geekbabe]

Please,our cat is the cause of nightmares...

 

[OdiN]

How do you know it's a nightmare? How do you even know it's a dream?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: OdiN
How do you know it's a nightmare? How do you even know it's a dream?

Are you suggesting that household pets are capable of astral projection?

 

[puffff]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I've never presumed to know whether it was a bad dream or a good dream, so I leave them to it.

yeah. as far as i know, our dog could be having a dream about chasing a rabbit and having the time of her life.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
In the past, someone had told me it's bad to wake them up in the middle of a nightmare. Of course, I have no proof that it's fact..

I'm going to tell you that you must wake your pet up if they are having a nihtmare.

What are you going to do now??

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I've never presumed to know whether it was a bad dream or a good dream, so I leave them to it.

ditto.

ive never seen my lizard act like hes dreaming, so i just let him chill when hes sleeping. my bird will wake up chattering sometimes, and once he flung himself at the side of the cage with lots of screaming. im sure that was a dream that freaked him out or something, hehe. my dogs do the dream run all the time, but i never wake them up.

 

[AndrewR]

I never do because that's generally her deepest sleep (projecting based on human sleep, I realize). She doesn't wake up crying or anything so I don't think we've significantly scarred her.

Sometimes she yelps, and it's very funny. It's more like a high pitched expulsion of air than a yelp like when she's hurt though -- almost a huffing. She can get pretty agitated sometimes when she's out and has woken me up at night.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Why do you assume they're nightmares?

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: Deeko
My dog doesn't really sleep if I'm awake - he'll lay there with his eyes closed, but if I so much as move he gets up....hence, I've never seen my dog have a nightmare.

mine is the same way, he sleeps when i sleep. and if i happen to wake up i hear him snoring, just like me, lol. weird how similar he is to me

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Why do you assume they're nightmares?

If it's a neutered or spayed cat, maybe all it's dreaming about is a life where it's got a hyperactive libido, and it's out gettin' it on with anything that's willing. I liked how Homer found out about sex:

"Zookeeper! Zookeeper! Those monkeys are killing each other!"
*whispers* "They're having sex."
"Oh."

To the uninformed observer, sex, depending on those involved, may look and sound somewhat violent and unpleasant.
I've never heard the sound of a cat in heat, either, but from hearsay, it seems that they can make quite an unpleasant racket.
Are they fighting? Are they having sex? Or is it Memorex?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
If it's a neutered or spayed cat, maybe all it's dreaming about is a life where it's got a hyperactive libido, and it's out gettin' it on with anything that's willing.

Then there's folk like binister waking them up and the cat's like OMGWTFBBQ :|

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: Jeff7
If it's a neutered or spayed cat, maybe all it's dreaming about is a life where it's got a hyperactive libido, and it's out gettin' it on with anything that's willing.

Then there's folk like binister waking them up and the cat's like OMGWTFBBQ :|

That made me LOL

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: OdiN
How do you know it's a nightmare? How do you even know it's a dream?

Are you suggesting that household pets are capable of astral projection?

No. I am suggesting that this "dreaming" they are supposedly doing is actually telepathic communication to other pets, planning their ultimate take over of the entire world by attacking the owners and deep frying their faces.