Lately Nicki has been having a lot of dreams. She starts woofing lightly and her legs start twitching... you can tell that she's in deep REM because those eyelids are fluttering a mile a minute.

Usually my husband or I will lightly put a hand on her to wake her up because they don't neccessarily look like happy dreams.

Is this normal? Are they bad dreams? She really does have them often.... about every day, and sometimes a few in one night. She had a lot of them as a puppy, but we thought they were happy dreams of casing squirrels and bunnies, but then she stopped. She has begun dreaming really heavy again... she's 9 year old now.