| Okay, I admit my curiousity so I looked this up really quick. I can't stop laughing. Doesn't answer our question about snoring dogs but at least we're not alone.
Sleeping with Dogs
Sleep Consultant: "What's the problem?"
Me: "You know, I'm glad you're sitting down, Doc, because I'll bet you've
never heard this one before ... I can't sleep."
Sleep Consultant: "Not at all?"
Me: "Well, I sleep fine for the first four or five hours then I'm wide awake
for three or four hours."
Sleep Consultant: "Any idea what's causing this problem?"
Me: "No, not really. No stress. No anxiety. I'm tired. I want to sleep, but I
can't."
Sleep Consultant: "Are you disturbed by some sort of sound?"
Me: "Well, sometimes I might hear snoring?"
Sleep Consultant: "Your wife snores?"
Me: "Well, I don't know. She might. But she lives in another city so unless
she snores really, really loud.."
Sleep Consultant: "Then who?"
Me: "My dog, Jake."
Sleep Consultant: "Well, why don't you just shut the bedroom door?"
Me: "What good would that do?"
Sleep Consultant: "Well, you might not hear him snore."
Me: "We sleep in the same room."
Sleep Consultant: "In the same room!"
Me: "Okay, the same bed."
Sleep Consultant: "Well, there's your problem."
Me: "That's not the only problem."
Sleep Consultant: "What else."
Me: "Nightmares."
Sleep Consultant: "When did the nightmares start?"
Me: "When he was about five. I think they involve handcuffs and house cats."
Sleep Consultant: "So you sleep with a dog that snores and has nightmares?"
Me: "Plus there's a fair bit of farting going on."
Sleep Consultant: "Audible?"
Me: "Yeah, but those might be mine. Truthfully, I think that's what triggers
his nightmares but hey..let him get his own sleep consultant."
Sleep Consultant: "What do you do when you can't sleep?"
Me: "I usually listen to all-night radio, a bunch of wackos selling growth
hormones, conspiracy theories and religion."
Sleep Consultant: "And this helps?"
Me: "No, but it convinces me that I'm the most normal person on the planet."
Sleep Consultant: "Do you ever get up, maybe get a warm glass of milk?"
Me: "I used to but the pain was too much."
Sleep Consultant: "So you get headaches in the middle of the night?"
Me: "No, I stub my toe on the damn ramp every time I get up at night."
Sleep Consultant: "Ramp?"
Me: "Yeah, I had a ramp built into the end of the bed."
Sleep Consultant: "So you have trouble getting in and out of bed?"
Me: "Not me, the dog. It's a dog ramp."
Sleep Consultant: "Why?"
Me: "Because he's 13 years old and I don't want him jumping up and putting
stress on his back knees."
Sleep Consultant: "So let me get this straight - you sleep with a dog who
snores and has nightmares and comes in and out of bed on a ramp."
Me: "Plus sometimes he'll try and push me out of bed. I don't think he means
to, he just straightens out his legs and pretty soon I'm clinging to the edge
of the bed."
Sleep Consultant: "And you can't sleep that way."
Me: "Actually I can but before long I have this recurring dream in which I'm
falling off a cliff and I wake up screaming."
Sleep Consultant: "Which causes anxiety and therefore insomnia."
Me: "No, actually he seems to sleep right through it. Maybe my screams are
muffled by his nightmare whining and barking, I don't know."
Sleep Consultant: "Is that about it for all the noise?"
Me: "Did I mention the squeaking?"
Sleep Consultant: "Your dog squeaks."
Me: "No, but sometimes he rolls over on his Mister Magic Froggy and the frog
squeaks. It's the cutest thing."
Sleep Consultant: "Have you thought about having the dog sleep in another
room?"
Me: "I tried that and it didn't work."
Sleep Consultant: "Why not?"
Me: "There wasn't enough room for both of us on the couch."
Sleep Consultant: "What about making him sleep on the floor?"
Me: "No, my back couldn't take it."
Sleep Consultant: "So how long have you had this problem?"
Me: "About seven years, now."
Sleep Consultant: "And how long have you had this dog?"
Me: "About seven years now."
Sleep Consultant: "Do you see any correlation between your sleep problem and your dog?"
Me: "Ah ha. So you think the problem might be contagious?"
Sleep Consultant: "No, no, no. The problem is you and your dog sleep in the
same bed amidst snoring, farting, screaming, whining and barking!"
Me: "Well, I knew all that before I came to you!"
Sleep Consultant: "Well, the only thing I can tell you is you must seek
professional advice."
Me: "You mean go see another sleep consultant?"
Sleep Consultant: "No, you need to see a psychiatrist, probably a whole team of them. Frankly Mr. Thomas, you're nuttier than Michael Jackson main lining Fruit Loops."
Me: "Well, that's easy for you to say. You don't listen to all-night radio." | 
Isabelle snores, moans, groans, sighs, has nightmares etc. She has always done these things. Sometimes she gets that whistle when she is in a really deep sleep - it kinds funny. At least she doesn't bark in her sleep, although she does cry sometimes 
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