'It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.

When I step out of bed in the AM, I make it up before I leave the room. Today I threw the pillow in one of the DOG chairs that they sleep in. Later, I missed Baby and this is where I found her, then Jake had to have his turn.
I thought, ok, let sleeping dogs lie! then I wondered what google would say about that phrase I have heard all my life.

Per Googleese........

"Let sleeping dogs lie -- To let a matter or person which at the present is at rest stay at rest, rather than to create a disturbance by bringing the matter up again or arousing the person. (in this case person = dogs)

Chaucer wrote this in just the reverse form --

'It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.' ('Troylus and Crisedye,' 1374)

- and it was still so recorded some two hundred years later by John Heywood ('A Dialogue Conteynyng Prouerbes and Epigrammes,' 1592),

'It is ill wakyng of a sleapyng dogge.' (my personal favorite)

But by the time of Charles Dickens ('David Copperfield, 1850) it had been turned about into the order of today's usage." From "Heavens to Betsy!" by Charles Earle Funk (Harper & Row, New York, 1955).