Shar-Pei Sleeping Problem Involves Gravity (VIDEO)

Ziggy the Shar-pei might be trying to take a nap on the couch, but his position of choice isn't exactly conducive to sleep. Things like gravity seem to keep getting in the way.

And we know you come to this page for the LOLs, not the life advice, but if we could give you one pro-tip today it would be this: lie down for your naps. Maybe you'll snore less.

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Via The Daily What

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[SamKnause]

05:37 PM on 08/30/2011

Sweet little doggy just lay down !!!! : )

[floodberg]

04:46 PM on 08/30/2011

Ahh, what a cutie!  I needed this today!  I've had dogs (rescues) that snored, but here's the story of my one snoring cat.  

Brownie was soaking wet, a starving perhaps 8wk old kitten, begging outside in a rainstorm at an Elks Lodge in November.  A friend of mine found him, gave him some elks chicken and brought him right to me. He was sick as I've ever seen; his breathing was so bad he couldn't really walk. I turned my guest bath into a sauna and sat up with him, then hauled him into the vet.  Treated some injuries (probably abuse), pneumonia in all quadrants of the lungs, got antibiotics but brought him home (I didn't want him more traumatized) and back into the sauna/bath.  After two weeks and an antibiotic switch, the vet told me to put him down.  I wasn't rational:  I'd lost my mother and my wife, and I wasn't going to lose this one.  

After 3 weeks and consults, the vets gave up.  I didn't.  I made a chicken stew everyday (if made properly, it has strong antibiotic qualities), put Vicks on his collar, and he stayed in the sauna, gaining weight and the fur improving.  He ended up with a bad eye, purrs like a freight train and snores like a tank; but he's healthy and fairly happy.  He's got abuse issues like OCD behavior, but we deal with it. In the past 8 years, he's been a wonderful, loving animal  He has his quirks; he begs, steals, has to figure out everything in the house (remotes, the laptop, toilets, taps, fridges, door locks) and is the most loving animal I've ever had ~ even when he drinks out of my coffee cup when I'm not looking.  I've never had an animal confound me like this one, or make me laugh; he's a keeper!

[citizen of the universe]

04:39 PM on 08/30/2011

So cute! I think me and that puppy can have a snore off!

[PowerPridePinstripes]

08:58 AM on 08/30/2011

Yay! More dog vids. Too cute. He's snoring like a man.

[mushimom]

11:37 PM on 08/29/2011

That puppy is so precious looking!!...:D

[maxom]

11:52 PM on 08/29/2011

Looks a lot like our Pug....she IS precious.

[Joovie]

05:29 PM on 08/29/2011

I just want to pull all his wrinkles out and watch them snap back.

[doglove]

04:52 PM on 08/29/2011

He looks like a manatee!

[Kellybelle22]

03:27 PM on 08/29/2011

He is very cute indeed, but his nasal anatomy obviously makes it very hard to breathe. Those poor doggies with brachycephalic skulls like pugs, bulldogs and Shar-peis have a hard time breathing. My Chihuahuas have the same short-snouted skull type, although they don't have the prognathism (underbite) that some of these breeds do. My older dog snores, and when she sleeps, she does so with her head elevated on a small pillow or a folded blanket. That seems to help her with her compressed airway.

[zelduh]

03:36 PM on 08/29/2011

(I snore too....)

Such a cutie that little baby is!

[llisa]

12:56 AM on 08/30/2011

Thank you! I was going to write that the dog is trying to stay in that position so he can breathe. Poor thing. I have OSA and tracheomalacia and know how he feels.

[ChrisDWard]

02:00 PM on 08/29/2011

He just looks so soft and cuddly!!! Cutie!!!

[luckydog1857]

12:56 PM on 08/29/2011

Puppy on a white couch?? Yikes!

[sparkybrown7877]

12:05 PM on 08/29/2011

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want him!

[mrh85]

11:46 AM on 08/29/2011

omg... i want to pick this puppy up and hug him! so cute.

[nondiplome]

10:53 AM on 08/29/2011

Aww, what a typewriter carriage head. "It was a dark and stormy night." Ding!

[shermicbulldogs]

10:51 AM on 08/29/2011

This puppy definitely has an issue with breathing. I would suggest taking puppy to vet to check for nasal snares and an xray to determine if he has a small trachea. Good luck and prayers for your pup.

[blurredmolly]

11:04 AM on 08/29/2011

yeah.

[EJD1208]

11:42 AM on 08/29/2011

I know- I was thinking that its keeping its head elevated just so it can breath. Sounds like he needs a doggy CPAP machine.

[mistlesuede]

10:18 AM on 08/29/2011

Poor guy. He was so exhausted that he couldn't wake enough to move to a better position!
That is a 10 out of 10 on the adorable meter.