For some reason, if I dream about pets, it's almost always the ones that have gone to the rainbow bridge. I remember vividly a dream I had almost 17 years ago - I was 9 mos pregnant, in the hospital with toxemia, waiting for an OR to come available so they could take the baby. They had me on powerful anti-seizure drugs that caused me to have really weird dreams. The one I kept having over and over was my cat Zebo kept lunging at me with his mouth wide open, and he had huge, saber-like teeth! But for some reason (maybe because I was so drugged up) they didn't scare me.

One of my cats is a twenty pound tuxedo, Biggie. I also have an extreme fear and loathing of palmetto bugs, and this is the time of year they start showing up. Of course, they frequently get in the house. So, my fear of them being bad this summer caused me to dream that I saw one in the pantry. Only it was a twenty pound, black and white bug! I don't know what made me dream that Biggie was a roach!