exactly. these dreams seriously give me a slight panic attack upon waking up. throughout the day i have to make a conscious effort to remind myself it was a dream and my animals are fine, sometimes going as far as pulling someone out right there in the middle of the night to prove my brain wrong.
I already do a morning and an evening snoot count. These dreams are the days when I actually open up cages to check when one of them does not report in for morning snoot count.