Bear and Dog

I had this strange dream that I had a pet bear AND a pet dog. Currently, I am petless, our last dog died we believe of cancer that probably metastasized from a melanoma we had removed from his lip shortly after we got him. We had two cats but one belonged to my daughter who took him with her when she moved out, the other was never friendly to begin with but got really pissy after the first cat was gone so gave that back to my son who also has another cat.

So currently am without pets but after I get debts paid down will probably get another dog and cat. We have had two Dobermans and one Weimaraner. The first Doberman was a female we got as a puppy named Tia. She was a great dog, very people oriented, an excellent watch dog, but she died from cancer at 14, also from a melanoma metastasis.

In this dream, the dog was really harassing the bear because she wanted to play. The bear seemed to be getting annoyed and pinned the dog down, and I thought he was going to tear it apart but didn't. Just held her there long enough to get across the fact that he'd had enough, then let her go. The bear had massive claws, probably two inches long, could have turned the dog into hamburger in seconds.

I should mention that both pets were indoors in this dream. I've never had any aspirations of owing a bear as a pet or a carpet or anything else so not really sure what influenced this dream.

After the bear let the dog go, there was a fly buzzing around the ceiling and the bear decided to try to swipe at it. I was afraid he was going to take huge chunks out of the ceiling with those massive claws but he didn't. I woke up after that.