Pavane
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Barkleigh, age 5, is a very happy pup most of the time--except when we leave him. People who are on hand and watch us drive away say he has a pathetic howl that sounds like "Ah woo-woo-woo" and it takes him awhile to calm down. We never hear it. Well, recently he has been having nightmares almost every night. He sleeps in our bed and stands at the bottom facing out and beings that same howling. One of us has to get up, go to the bottom of the bed, put our arms around him and gently waken and tell him it is all right. Then we settle him back down. He has the same "look" on his face as when he stares out the glass door and watches up leave--even just to go out in the garden. He definitely gets more upset when we pack suitcases and leave with them. So I figure he is having an abandonment dream, even though we go away very infrequently. Of course he may have some other terrors of his own, but we feel sorry for his nightly terrors. Anyone else been through this?