SLEEPING DOGS, NAPPING CATS -- THE ANIMALS WHO DO WHAT SOME HUMANS CAN'T.....

For this edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap, we introduce a couch with a colorful personality.
As regular visitors to the weekend edition know, we love celebrating sleeping dogs and napping cats and the fact that they can pass along their tendencies to insomniacal humans. Sometimes.
Now, the opening photo appears to be a portrait from my Irritate a Family Member Collection!
Yes, that looks like a snapshot I took years ago when I caught my mom nodding off during a favorite TV show as her head of gray hair flopped onto the back of her favorite living room recliner.
Ah. but upon closer examination, that ain't Mom! I'd never have snapped such a photo and certainly wouldn't have published it while Mom was within driving distance of my typewriter keyboard! Whew!
So, there's the deal -- what looks like a nodded-off noggin' on the back of a couch is actually a curled up little cutie dog named Lulu. This was the week she learned to climb from the seats on the couch to the back of the couch and take a nap.
The other couch-related photos? Call this "a family affair." 
The first photo shows slumbering Wendy Louise Wagstaff Arden, my funspouse Martha's personal dog, snoozing amongst the colorful presentation of a couch-cover that can be seen from outer space, I swear. You walk into the living room, you don't even need to turn a light on -- the couch illuminates the place. Wendy has no problem sleeping on the couch.
Now, the great and handsome dog Dudley the Angel will, sometimes, crawl up onto the couch to watch sports or British mysteries on the big screen, but Wendy has a habit of beating him to the "soft spots" first.
In the case of this photo, he was explaining that when Wendy's on the couch, it enhances the illumination capabilities of the cover and, as he growled gently, "It keeps me awake when i need to be asleep.'' Dudley is so angelically human.
And, in that final animal-on-the-couch photo, you see a still-awake but heading' toward slumberland cat named Stevie Ray Treeboy. He will sometimes slide into an open spot on the end of the couch and flop --mouth open, eyes open -- in a position that says, "I am a cat -- I sleep when, where and how I want to sleep. Got any treats?"
And, of course, that is a would-be napper with Lulu. She can nap. He cannot. After all,
the title of this weekly presentation is "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap." Humans are on their own.
DEAR READERS, Please send photos and bios of your wonderful sleeping dogs and napping cats to [email protected] and we'll spotlight them in our weekend edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. Humans may appear in the presentation, but must be clad and must NOT be making political statements on behalf of any precinct, clad or unclad  Thank you, Larry & The Slumberama Express.