In my most recent lucid dream (my first induced LD!), there was a dog in my apartment (I don't actually own one), and later on I passed a dog again, barking violently at me, I told myself I was dreaming and could do anything at all, so I ordered it to "sit" and it did. It was looking up at me expectingly, but then something happened in the dream and it became unstable and collapsed.

..could this have been my first encounter with my spirit animal guide?