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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
I don’t know of anybody who knows the answer to the question in the title to his article. It’s impossible to get inside the head of a domestic cat with accuracy. We have to rely on quite a large slice of guesswork to try and figure out what a domestic cat is thinking at …
