Night of 1/30/06

Remarkably like a movie I once say, but different, this dream was about a very small golden retriever puppy that could talk but was really an alien from outer space. The puppy is adopted by a 6 or 7 year old boy who is the only one the dog will talk to (with an incredibly deep voice). One night the boy's parents awake to sirens outside their house and the boy next to their bed in tears because the puppy is gone and all the police can find is a box full of hair. It must have been a really big deal, because the news covered it and everything. I woke up before I could find out what happened to the dog. Earlier I think there was something about a carnival in there...