Dr. Desmond Morris, the great zoologist, author and artist, was asked the question in the title many times after his famous cat behaviour book Catwatching was published and became a resounding success on both sides of the Atlantic. He couldn’t answer the question. Nobody can for sure. We can guess. In a follow-up book …
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I am going to rely on my own observations to answer the question. I’m sure that almost all other cat owners have observed the same thing: when a domestic cat dreams their whiskers twitch, their ears might move, they might make the odd noise and their body sometimes twitches, including their legs. It appears …
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This morning, in the early hours, my cat started to dream while he was on my lap in bed. You can see from the video that he had a sort of nightmare or bad dream and his eyeballs were moving left to right so he was in the middle of REM sleep. He made …
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I am completely okay with this and it’s my fault. My cat was a having a dream; more a nightmare I’d say. He was growling under his breath and his forepaws were twitching. I knew he was having a dream in which he was encountering a hostile creature, perhaps another cat or a person. …
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