Hello!

Birds often symbolize goals or ideals as they are something we usually have to look up to. This is true even if the bird in the dream is on the ground or dead.

I wonder if you and your boyfriend are trying to conceive, as the pets are wearing cloths and being cared for as if they are infants.

The idea of looking for a place to shower shows the desire to cleanse and purify.
The sick rotting bird seems to also point in this direction.

To smell something in your dream, indicates your past experiences and feelings you associate with that particular smell. Your dream is trying to convey a feeling with a familiar smell or scent. Alternatively, the scent may be part of your real environment which you have incorporated into your dream.

If this is about having a child, this bird could be pointing to a past experience that was disappointing. Perhaps because your body isn't healthy enough to have a child.

The child idea may be all wrong, but you can insert any hopes, dreams, or aspirations that apply.

Hope this is helpful.
Marj

From my point of view, babies simborize new things. e.g Projects, dreams or plans you may have with you BF. If some of the pets is sick and has been neglected it might indicate that you have neglected some plan, dream, or project with your BF. It has been so neglected that its near death.

The need to take a shower, as a previous poster said shows a need to clean.It might be physical or spiritual. Past things, relationships and resentments might be an option.

For me, it shows that the reason you neglected this "baby" is because that a cleanig process has not taken place.Or that you can effectively take care of this "baby", when you had cleaned up.

Hope it helps....