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Why Does My Dog Wag His Tail While Sleeping. A higher tail usually means a dog is confident while a lower tail indicates a more timid or nervous dog. A scared dog who really doesnt want to defend himself may make a high-pitched growl-bark to. Sometimes when your cats sleeping and you pet or talk to them they might twitch their tail. Its commonly believed that dogs wag their tails to convey that they are happy and friendly but this isnt exactly true.
Generally this is the only time they do this because your dog is fully relaxed. Tully current dog hasnt really done any of that until this morning when I saw him lying on his back obviously sound asleep with his plumey tail waving in circles. Dogs wag their tails to denote happiness but this isnt necessarily the case for cats. Or the dogs tail may be held high and moving back and forth narrowly but rapidly. Just like us when in the deep sleep state dogs go through the REM rapid eye movement phase and the REM phase is when dreams occur. These are normal REM related behaviours.
A higher tail usually means a dog is confident while a lower tail indicates a more timid or nervous dog.
When conducted on dogs it shows that dogs actually have similar sleep and dream patterns as you do. This is funny to watch. A sleep study that records brain waves is called polysomnography. Tully current dog hasnt really done any of that until this morning when I saw him lying on his back obviously sound asleep with his plumey tail waving in circles. Just like us when in the deep sleep state dogs go through the REM rapid eye movement phase and the REM phase is when dreams occur. Well simply put dogs wag their tails while sleeping because they have happy dreams.