What Is Sleep?

We were very sleep deprived yesterday, thanks to not being able to have a wink of sleep due to Queenie behaving oddly all night. In fairness to her, I think something had spooked her and she was unable to settle in the completely dark house. So, like living with a toddler, we had to leave a light on last night for her and it seemed to work. We may need to invest in a doggy night light.

I wonder if being deaf but with a bit of sight, having that little bit of sight works against her at night as I think, because she is aware of it being dark, she gets scared in the complete blackness. She can’t find her way around when it is completely dark and gets lost. I think that perhaps if she was 100% blind her instincts would be better tuned for the dark and she would be less scared.

It doesn’t help that when she’s scared she makes a little puddle and when Ian picked her up and surprised her, she weeed down his leg!

I took Dumpling and Millie’s collars of them yesterday as, when they get off things, they are inclined to leap up rather than just drop down. I was worried about them getting their collar caught on something when they did this, so, as we don’t really need their collars on them, I took them off to be on the safe side. I then took Pixie’s off too. I think she would be better with a harness when she goes for a walk anyway.