Zoo Attack

I'm at my mom's place. For some reason we get into a religious argument about walking slower in the kitchen because God is there and forces it. Also, leaving the kitchen should be on your right foot. The argument escalates and Susan gets into it with me. She offers up tradition as a reason and I find that to be a much better reason than ghosts of Jesus forcing her to walk slow. My mom has remarried a total jerk. He is abusive and crude. He threatens to kill me more than once and gets violent when people disagree with him.

For some reason my mom has a lot of animals in her place. It's very much like a zoo. There are lions and tigers and cheetahs and even a saber-toothed tiger. I witnessed earlier a tiger jump into the pen with the saber-toothed tiger. He got ripped into shreds very quickly. The saber-toothed tiger is very close to being able to jump the fence. I am quite worried he will. For some reason he is okay living with the cheetahs in the pen with him. We are having dinner and things are going pretty bad. I have pissed off the father badly. There can be no resolution to our conflict. I try to shake hands with him and sort of agree to disagree on the point, but he's not interested in any reconcilliation. I have no idea why my mom is interested in him. Then a cheetah walks in. He comes over to me and tries to bite me. I can handle the cheetah which is somewhat odd. I get Erich to assist me in bringing him back to his pen. Of course this is of great concern to me. He escaped once, what will stop him from doing it again? And will the saber-toothed tiger figure out he can escape too? This concern soon becomes secondary. I notice there are some lions primed to escape. Someone has left the cage open and they have no problem getting out.

Now I'm at some medical complex of sorts. I am there to see my dad's body (or so I wrote. I have no recollection of this part of the dream, but I wrote it down immediately after the dream as a note). There are animals loose in the complex. We are being chased around. They have even broken through doors to get to us. We enter into a swimming pool area and I have the bright idea that no animals will go into the pool to get me. I'll just hang out in the middle of the pool and I'll be safe. Then I notice there are alligators coming after me. They are surprisingly easy to deal with, though. In fact, it turns out they are robotic alligators and not very powerful at all. I take care of them and think a bit further about my pool idea. I begin to think it won't work so well. Bears have no problem going in water. Then I hear banging at the door. We run down a hall and up some stairs. We think if we go into a room with a steel reinforced door we'll be safe. We get into the room and hear the animals outside sniffing around for us. Then they find out where we are. The steel reinforced door doesn't help at all. They break through and glass sprays out. I guess what was once a reinforced steel door turns into a glass door when they break through. I look around for an exit and see a window. I climb out the window and am walking around on the roof. I see some ladders which would allow me to escape to the ground. And then, I wake up.