Cat sleep
cats sleep anywhere from 13 to 16 hours per day. In
other words, your friendly companion feline spends approximately 2/3
of his entire life in dreamland.Cats are the undisputed sleep champions
of the animal kingdom. Only the notoriously slow-footed sloth, which
sleeps away an estimated 80 percent of its life, catches more shut-eye.
Cats sleep more than almost any other mammal. Realistically, your
cat sleeps about twice as much as you do. How much an individual cat
sleeps depends on his age, hunger, the temperature and the weather.
Like humans, cats go through both Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and non-REM
sleep. Although no one can actually ask a cat, the assumption is that
your cat dreams during REM sleep. You may notice his whiskers twitch
or his eye moving behind his eyelids. The deep non-REM sleep is when
the cat's body grows and repairs itself.
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