A Michael Broad Blog
The first point to make is that some humans fall asleep as fast as cats and dogs. It is difficult to generalise. You could tackle the question from the other end and ask why do humans have difficulty getting off to sleep? There’s a long list of reasons and these reasons don’t apply to …
All observant cat owners and lovers will be aware that their cat dreams and when they dream they twitch their whiskers, eyes, legs to varying degrees and move their mouths. They also might make some noises. They are going through a period of deep sleep and they dream just like humans. I have watched …
To be more precise the question should refer to domestic cats and how they pick a favourite spot in the home for a while and then choose a different one for no apparent reason because, on the face of it, it’s no better or worse. The tendency to do this varies between cats and …
Humans are very strongly habituated to sleeping in one continuous session during the night. The domestic cat tends to sleep at any time whenever they are tired. The former is very rigid and the latter is very flexible. Admittedly, I am writing almost exclusively for retired people who have the option to sleep whenever …
A man said he couldn’t breathe when sleeping so he installed a camera to see why…. Such a cute picture. What can you say? His cat loves him really badly but doesn’t realise that he is damn near suffocating him. You may have heard of the old wives tale that cats suck baby’s breath …
From this picture, it appears that a cat’s preference for sleeping on her/his back runs in the family i.e. it is an inherited trait. This looks like a mother and her kittens. The kittens have either copied their mother or they have their mother’s preference for sleeping directly on their backs. I have seen …
The title is a bit clumsy. It is taken directly from the Internet. To rephrase it the question is what percentage of a cat’s life is occupied sleeping? It is quite an interesting question but in order to answer it you have to define the word “sleep”. The reason why you have to define …
Cats sleep about twice as much as humans because this is the typical sleeping pattern of a highly efficient predator. The domestic cat has time on his hands and uses the time to sleep and dream. Cats can fall into a nice sleep at the drop of a hat. This sleeping pattern is inherited …
