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Sleep Disorders in Animals

by  Florence Cardinal
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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    Sue
    Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 09:03 PM

    Florence thanks so much for this interesting post.  It is fun to know about how other species may or may not sleep.  I knew my black laborator retriever mix (Emmitt) had great dreams - he does all the things you say.  But narcolepsy - hmm I wonder Wink

     

    Some of you may want to read about the various human sleep disorders - just click here.  As well check out the latest sleep news.

     

    Thanks and All the Best, Sue 


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    Florence Cardinal
    Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 05:46 PM
    For more on dogs and narcolepsy, visit this page from Scientific American and scroll about a third of the way down the page to Narcoleptic Dogs.         http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/sciam.htm
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