It’s hard to say, most dreams are a mix of things including processing things you have encountered in daily life - 90% of dreams are explainable as inner personal work. There’s a these here with your general posting style, what with the cat ascii art an all - do you spend a lot of time looking at cat videos and animal memes and documentaries?
We have some tutorials for diving deeper into dreamwork here:
In which I reiterate:
Dream interpretation is 80% scam, and 20% asking you what your own dream means (which is the right approach but not something worth paying money for.
Dreams are highly symbolic, subjective and personal. Leaving aside lucid dreams and dreamwalking for a minute…
Dreams usually contain some of several pieces jumbled together:
- Rehashing what you experienced in the last few days
- Wish fulfillment / worry dreams / problem solving
- Subconscious messages
- Entity messages
And all these are overlaid with symbolism making them tricky to interpret unless you’re the actual dreamer, and maybe not then. What it’s really ideal not to do it get too literal with the analysis and start building castles.
So you need to ask yourself what each item and person means to you - the actual person, or a representation of something else? E.g. snakes, can be an entity, can be your own power, can represent a connection or conduit, or energy, or intelligence, or predators… etc - it really depends on the context and how you feel about it in the dream.
How you feel in-dream about it all - that is important and a big clue for your interpretation. You should ask your self, “what does this mean to me” and then follow your first impression, the first thing you think of and not 2nd guess it.
I suggest you get into meditation, go back into the dream and ask the [whatevers] who they are and what they want.
So,
You’re having recurring dreams about powerless animals being trapped, and they might get out but there is still danger?
These dreams most likely represent how you feel about a situation, maybe one you are in so that these animals are representing you - most things in dreams represent aspects of the dreamer.
Maybe try some of the divination and dreamworking methods linked above and see if you can get more info to analyze. Are you feeling smothered by your home or school life but worried about graduating and what comes after for example?