Are Your Dogs Sound Sleepers

I was just wondering about Smokey. He literally sleeps like
a rock. He barely breaths, he doesn't respond to my talking to
him and he's dead weight trying to move him. :D

One reason I ask is that Smokey always falls asleep before I
do & in the big bed next to my pillows. Last night I lay down in
the few inches left to me in the bed & laid my hand on his side.
I couldn't feel him breathing at all. Nada, zip.:eek: His body felt
cold & I suddenly got the strangest feeling.:( I went ahead and
shook him until he opened his eyes. He then just moved to the
other side of the bed & went back to sleep. :D

Smokey sleeps much to sound sometimes.

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Originally posted by lizbud
Last night I lay down in
the few inches left to me in the bed

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Liz I could relate to every word in your post especially the above! LOL! Yes both of mine sleep like they are drugged. I can literally pick Ripley up and re-position him in the bed and he never even opens his eyes. Bella goes out like a light too and won't even think about getting up in the morning until I am up with both feet on the floor. She likes her last few *beauty winks* before she gets up! :)

Pam, Smokey is just like Ripley then. :) I was beginning to think
there was something wrong with Smokey. I've never had a dog
who slept so sound. At least Maggie will sit up from sleeping,
she doesn't move right away, but she at least opens her eyes.:D

Liz I have also had to put my hand on both Bella's and Ripley's side to see if they were breathing. Gosh I wish I could sleep that soundly! LOL!

Your posts hit home with me too.
Both Sheba and Rocky, especially Sheba sleep
very soundly.
Now that Sheba is 11,
I have had more times I care to think about
that I have been scared half to death
thinking she wasn't breething, when she was
only just in a deep sleep.

I sware i dont know how Face ever gets any sleep, he will never relax he always is on guard, and has one eye open, he wants to be top protector and he sure is, Rita on the other hand sleeps and snores soooo loud!

Some of them are...I find the older ones are much sounder sleepers. I often have to actually touch Preacher or Sleet to wake them. I can't tell you how many times I've been convinced they had passed on. I'd be just about to go into full blown panic mode when they suddenly wake up and look at me like I'm a lunatic!

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Originally posted by senorita02
I sware i dont know how Face ever gets any sleep, he will never relax he always is on guard, and has one eye open, he wants to be top protector and he sure is, Rita on the other hand sleeps and snores soooo loud!

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That is how it is at my house too!! Buddy NEVER sleeps!! I can hear him walking around the house all night long! He'll come in a check on me a few times, lay down next to the bed for a little bit. The make another check of the house.

Meanwhile Sierra is curled up snug as a bug sound asleep at my feet!!!

It's cute because when he checks on me, he'll give me a tiny little kiss, then give Sierra a little kiss too!!!:D

He's so cute!!!:D

But I have never had a dog that slept as soundly as Smokey!
That would freak me out!! (as I'm sure it does you)

Murph could sleep through a hurricane. Even when he was young, it was play hard, sleep hard. Once he's sleeping, he isn't budging unless you make him.

Oz is a real light sleeper. He goes from asleep, to up on his toes, ready for action, if he hears anything out of the ordinary. He also follows me if I get up in the middle of the night and leave the bedroom.

Gully is somewhat in the middle. If you get up, he gets up and follows you, but he doesn't seem to be quite as alert and jaunty on the spot as Oz, if something's amiss. He slowly gets up and has to go through a stretching routine before he gets really moving.

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Emma could easily sleep through anything, Moco wakes up when he heres the smallest sound:p

Oh yeah, Millie sleeps like the dead. It's hard to wake her up and get her moving.

Chester on the other hand, sleeps like me. We both wake at ANY noise. Of course, I don't take off out the pet door barking like a maniac at 3 am. :rolleyes: :p :D

Ethan sure is a sound sleeper! Anything can be happening and he will just sleep on through it. On the other hand, Frisk-man will wake to any noise or nudge. If you just accidently brush up against him when he is asleep, he will automatically be awake, giving you the glare of death! :D

Liz Angus was just like that. I too don't know how many times after he started getting up there in age that I thought he had passed on. Scared the life out of me:eek:

But little Bon seems to be a very heavy sleeper too. He goes from fully awake to dead to the world in a matter of seconds (guess that's a puppy for you hu;)). I can open his mouth, look at his teeth and just mess with him in general and he never wakes up!

And Roxey is a heavy sleeper, but she knows by the noises that are made if she should wake up or not:p

Huney, she is like Oz, Buddy and Face...sleeping with one eye open all of the time!

Clover is also like Smokey, once she is out for the night there is NO moving her, which is kind of annoying when she is asleep in the middle of my bed. Elvis is a deep sleeper but if he hears anything he will open his eyes.

We have had many scares with Penny thinking she has stopped breathing, and have had to lift he up and get her going again. She gets into such a deep sleep that nothing verbal will wake her only physically picking her up and poking at her.

Theo on the other hand is a very light sleeper and can be up and ready to go at the mention of his name.

Lady sleeps soundly, and also has the annoying habit of taking over the bed while she's sleeping. If she's on the floor napping during the day it would take a hand grenade to wake her up, unless Marylin (our 3 y/o non furbaby) comes near her. In addition to being a sound sleeper, she snores to boot.

My dogs are noisy sleepers. They both snore. One dogs even barks/whines quietly in his sleep and moves his paws.

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Originally posted by cloverfdx
We have had many scares with Penny thinking she has stopped breathing, and have had to lift he up and get her going again. She gets into such a deep sleep that nothing verbal will wake her only physically picking her up and poking at her.

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LOL!! Why doesn't that surprise me? :p

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LOL!! Why doesn't that surprise me?

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LOL yeah these nawtee girls of ours ;). We have had quite a fews scares with her though, when Mum realy did think she was gone :eek:. That is why we got a warning from the Vet about a D.I.E.T to lose a little weight. Oh i have new Penny photos coming soon, sleeping of course ;).

Our 12 yo Scottie sleeps like that, except he snores. The rest are younger and I have noticed it with them. Murph has always slept like that, though, at least since he came home when he was three.

Lucy is part alarm system,,, and the things that set her off are the phrases ,,
Daddys home
side door
treaties?

say any of those and shes off in a dead flat out run in circles and barking her fool face off many times still half asleep.... so no,,, shes not a sound sleeper!!!

Merlin,,, typical baby yet,,, when he is asleep,, he is out!!!!!!

Max, Muffin and Kirby are the "dead" sleepers at our house. You can pick them up with no reaction on their part.

On the other hand, Molly and Carly can go from sound asleep to barking hysterically in a matter of seconds. Molly barks at everything and nothing so we try to ignore her (yeah, right - ignore a barking yorkie) - but if Carly is awakened barking, you'd better get up quick because there is something out there.

Of course, how Molly could sleep through her own snoring is beyond me. Man that little girl can make a lot of noise!!

I had the same concern about my dog, because she falls asleep next to me on the couch and when I tried to get up the other day she litterally slid off the couch head first, very slowly, and didn't even wake up until I picked her up and put her back on the couch and then she fell asleep again. If she hears my husband come in though, she will wake up immediately no matter how sound she is sleeping.:rolleyes:

I wish!! lol
I move a muscle and she wants to know what I am doing and why!