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Even sleeping dogs can be controversial.

Bizkit — possibly the most viewed sleeping dog ever — carried on to such extremes in her sleep that many, including her owners at one point, suspected she might have something seriously wrong with her.

Among the episodes her owners videotaped was one of Bizkit flailing on the floor, getting up, and running into a wall  — all seemingly in her sleep.

Some viewers found that funny, some did not. Some comments on the videos urged her owners to get her treatment, and speculated she might have a  neurological disorder.

Some commenters even suggested she was in need of an exorcism.

According to this feature on Bizkit on Animal Planet (below), Bizkit’s owners — in addition to getting her a sleep helmet — did get her medical attention.

They say their veterinarian told them nothing was wrong with Bizkit and that she was simply sleepwalking.

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You wouldn’t think a six-month-old dog would be too tolerant of wearing a protective cone.

But leave it to a bloodhound to take it in stride, fall asleep in it and snore like a motorboat.

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Here’s Tucker, who, as the Ellen Degeneres show plays in the background, gets some rest on a leather couch that seems just his size.

He uses a sleep position similar to my dog’s, with his rear legs spread wipe open, as if to say, “this is my groin and I don’t care if the whole world sees it.”

As his front legs flop about and his face twitches, his owner videotapes him, then finally wakes him up and — as many of us do — assures his dog, “It was only a dream.”

Tucker seems unwilling to take his owner’s word for it. He looks around to get his bearings, then, with a stretch, seems to accept it.

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This two-week old Lab manages to get some rest, despite all the background whining.

The YouTube video has gotten more than a million views, thousands of likes, and 56 dislikes, most of the latter coming from people concerned about the dog wailing in the background.

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This English bulldog may look like grandpa, collapsed in the La-Z-Boy after too much Thanksgiving dinner, but he’s just a pup.

And we can only guess what he’s doing in his puppy dream.

The video comes from Suburban Bullies in Portales, New Mexico, which describes itself as “a responsible and ethical breeder of English Bulldogs.”

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The owners of Quentin the pug say he is an accomplished sleeper, devoting about 20 hours a day to the cause.

There is no situation he can’t fall asleep in — including, as shown here, while sitting up.

You can see more of him at www.quentinthepug.com

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Who among us hasn’t poked and prodded the paw pads of our peacefully slumbering pooch – pesteringly proving in the process that, when it comes to annoying behavior, humans are much more evolved than dogs?

This Great Dane seems pretty used to it, managing to sleep through a couple minutes of his paws being tinkered with before waking up and giving his owner that “What the hell? Get a life” look.

Watching a dog sleep is a comforting thing. It generally brings us, or at least me, a peaceful easy feeling. But it can also bring out our inner imp, leading us to tickle paws that would probably rather be left alone.

Are we jealous of all that sleep they’re getting? Or is it a cry for attention, our way of saying, “Let’s play?”

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Dogs sleep, on average, two-thirds of each day. We generally spend only a third of the day snoozing.

That gives us a eight additional hours to accomplish all the important things mature and responsible adults must do, like taking video of our dogs while they’re sleeping.

You can’t blame us, because dogs — probably even more so than us — do some pretty unusual things while they’re sound asleep.

For the next couple of months, we’re going to feature a sleeping dog every Monday. (Monday seeming appropriate for some reason.)

We start with this pup who seems to have encountered something mildly disturbing in his dreams.

Regina Ebey’s dog, Sloopy, a Jack Russell and black lab mix, was more than a pet. Twice, she says, he saved her life — waking her up when, due to a medical condition, she stopped breathing in her sleep.

Last weekend, a neighbor shot and killed him.

The neighbor was arrested by police in Jacksonville, Fla., and charged with cruelty to animals and discharging a firearm.

News 4 in Jacksonville,  which  featured Sloopy in a February 2011 report, said the Ebeys had just moved into a new home in Jacksonville the night before.

On Saturday night Regina’s husband, Ross, went outside to smoke, taking Sloopy with him. The dog was sniffing around the driveway when neighbor Kenneth Martin opened his front door and shot him.

When officers arrived, Martin told them, “I have made the biggest mistake of my life. I have no reason for what I have done.”

Martin was booked into the Duval County jail.

Alex Ebey said her mother-in-law moved into the neighborhood to be closer to her family because of her poor health.

“She was trying to make it easier on her heart, and now she’s lived here eight hours and has a broken heart,” he said.

Here’s a Chevrolet ad I’d never seen until recent weeks.

When his master dreams he’s taking his Camaro for his spin, the dog decides to get in on the action. With no window to stick his head out of, he gets up, walks over to the edge of the bed and sticks his head in front of the fan to soak up the breeze.

It’s a simple concept, but one that — intentionally or not — seems to capture part of the essence of dog, that being their unending agreeability: “Sure, I’ll go along with that. I’ll adapt. Whatever you say. Or dream.”

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