Dp and I were watching tv last night and I got up to go to the loo.
DDog has his own bed in our bedroom but isn't generally allowed on our bed as he gets it all hairy. He knows this but sometimes sneaks onto the bed anyway if we are downstairs. He ALWAYS immediately jumps off the bed if he hears us coming upstairs (trying to hide where he's been 😂).
I walk past the bedroom and notice he's laying on the bed on his side, not moving, eyes open. I got worried as he hadn't jumped down when he heard me coming, and although he does sometimes sleep with his eyes open I thought it odd that he didn't wake up when he heard me come in the room. I walked over, spoke to him, called his name and stroked him. Then I put my hands under him and sort of gently 'jostled' him to try and wake him up. No response at all, not even a blink.
By this point I was really panicking and called Dp upstairs saying I think something was wrong. He came in and not long after DDog woke up, jumped up like nothing had happened!
Once our heart rates had returned to normal I started feeling really guilty that I had overreacted and worried Dp for no reason, we were both a bit out of sorts for the rest of the evening.
Did I overreact? Should I have tried harder to wake him up? I was panicking and DDog is quite elderly so not infeasible that something could have been wrong.