What research shows
Among the most commonly dreamed animals in Western samples.
Animals
Dreaming about dogs
Loyalty, protection, or something you have trained.
The psychological reading
A friendly dog is usually read as loyalty in your life; an aggressive one as loyalty betrayed or a boundary being guarded too hard.
What tradition claimed
Barking dogs warned of enemies; a friendly dog promised a faithful friend.
Included as cultural history. Traditional dream books are frequently ominous and have no predictive value.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
Before you look anything up
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.