My dog just woke himself up sleep-barking and he's looking at me

[madison2000]

as if I can explain...

[donco6]

1. My dog does that, too!

She sort of whimper-woofs for five minutes at a time. Then she wakes up. I always think she's thinking, "now where did that squirrel go? It was just here . . . "

[arwalden]

2. Mine Does That All The Time...

... I'm certain their dreams must seem as real to them as ours do to us.

Naturally they lack the ability to understand the difference between a dream and reality... so... I'm sure they must find it quite confusing to be chasing rabbits and then suddenly disappear from the field in their dreams and magically wake up curled up in their cozy bed.

That look they give you is saying "How'd I get here? What happened to the rabbit?"

[n2mark]

6. I found mine barking at the pantry door the other day.

My dog will also bark in the middle of the floor if I am not in that room, like saying, you should be in here now.

[madison2000]

16. I know a border collie who barks at planes

Its like he's saying "you're not landing here!". And so far, they haven't landed where they've been warned not to.

[Elidor]

3. Chasing rabbits in his sleep

Very common. And cute. Woof!

[susanna]

4. LOL...

been there, done that. My girl looks at me like, "I swear I was just in a meadow. How did I get into your bedroom?"

I always answer, "What? What do you want from me? It's your dream." We have a very open channel of human/canine communication. ;-)

[madison2000]

5. I wonder sometimes if my dog thinks I am the all powerful

master of the weather. When he goes outside and finds snow, he practically thanks me because he loves it. When its rain and thunder he seems kind of insulted and grumpy. He probably thinks I can make it stop!

[Hans Delbrook]

7. My dog used to do that

He hated rain so much he wouldn't go out in it. If it lasted for hours and he had to go out to relieve himself, he'd always look up at me beseechingly as if to say, "Make it stop - you can do all that other "magic."

[madison2000]

8. Well, he knows I can make the garage door open without stepping

outside of the house, so its probably not that big a stretch to "you could turn off the rain if you really wanted to".

[susanna]

11. Once, and ONLY once

I took a golf umbrella (those big suckers) outside for her to do her thing under. I knew it had to be done as that particular day brought a rainstorm that lasted from 8AM Friday to 3AM Saturday. Not a spring shower, mind you, but a constant, driving, flooding rain. She had to go so bad her eyes were turning yellow and I was getting worried for her!

I have not done it since, but I think she knows I would if I had to.

[Hans Delbrook]

12. Is she a dachshund?

Mine was; he used to try and wait out the rain until his bladder was so full he felt like a football!

[susanna]

15. No, not a dachshund...

She's an Akita that just hates rain. She can hold it, though - wow can she hold it! :-)

[Hans Delbrook]

18. I guess so

She probably has a bladder considerably bigger than dachshund!

[susanna]

19. I'm sure of that.

She's great though, and I will always remember the golf umbrella as a 'bonding' moment. ;-)

[susanna]

10. Flashback to this afternoon...

...when I got home from work. My girl greets me, tail a-waggin', then when I let her out to pee she gets ticked off about the rain falling on her. I told her, "do your business quick, it's raining." She glares at me, I swear! She comes back in with an attitude. No sniffing the grass, fence, and all other manner of inanimate objects for her. It is obviously MY fault it is raining...

[Gloria]

9. My Slicker does small barks when he's asleep, too...but he

usually stays asleep.

Other times, I wake up to hear him under his covers, licking himself. Sometimes he's making so much noise I tell him to shut up so I can go back to sleep!

[bigwillq]

13. "Sleep-Barking"

That's a cool word!:hi:

[realisticphish]

14. i like to think of it this way

my dog has done this many times. but think about it...the dog is having fun, chasing a rabbit, when he wakes up. who does he see but you, and he thinks "damn, im still stuck with THIS idiot"

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[kiraboo]

17. My kid used to do that in his "jolly jumper". He'd fall asleep

in the thing and then sort of autojump, which would startle him and wake him up. He'd slowly stop bouncing, would fall asleep, and then do it all again. We've got some amusing home movies what nobody'd want to watch but me and mine...