I have just started looking at this case with my teacher.

I can identify the changes in these sentences as being dative:

Оля даёт книгу Алуксею - To whom does Оля give the book.

Он идёт к зданию - the presence of K.


These have me stumped:

Собаке хочется играть
Антону хочется отдыхать

I can see the dative changes (e and y) at the end of собаке и Антону.The problem is i dont see a way of identifying these sentences as being in the dative case.

Many thanks in advance for any replies.