Why do cats need or want to sleep so much?

Cats are sprinters.

They sleep a lot to store up energy.

Which they use to do wind sprints.

All night long.

A guy in Russia adopted a runt cougar when it was a kit.

Now it is a big house cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iec_QJnrCEU

This shouldn't be so hard for people to understand: if you had nine lives like cats do, think about how much extra sleep you'd need for your other eight lives.

Bob A Booey wrote:

They aren't sleeping, they are scheming. Truth of the matter is if cats were big enough they would happily kill and eat you. They have no love or loyalty like dogs do.

Nah. It's harder to bond with a cat, but they are capable of love, too, even if they are killing machines. My little guy doesn't follow me around everywhere I go just because I give him food. If I shrunk down to the size of a squirrel, any injuries he might inflict on me would be largely accidental.

8ij wrote:

Exactly what else would cats be doing? They like many housepets are bored to death. Having housepets should be illegal. You are imprisoning someone.

What about rescue pets? They can't exactly be released into the wild and expect to survive. At the same time, a home is a much better environment for them than an animal shelter.

At least they aren't hanging around liquor stores all day.

Cats are phenomenal pets. If you don't like cats I don't like you. They are calming, sweet, fun and athletic, and independent enough to make their own way while in the house while we're at work or out. Absolutely delightful. As long as I'm alive there will be at least one house cat living with me.

Domestic cats have nothing else to do. Are you forgetting that they are neutered and fed?

The wild species they descend from doesn't sleep anywhere close to the same amount.

Domestic cats don't get so bored if they're allowed to roam freely.

I know this thread is old, but I like this line. It came from a discussion between Jerry Seinfeld and another comic (I cannot remember who--I was binging Comedians in Cars).

Cats have no idea they are getting old. Have you ever heard a cat say I cannot get by on 17 hours sleep any more; if I don't get at least 19, I'm worthless.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Domestic cats don't get so bored if they're allowed to roam freely.

Add cats to the list of things .you know nothing about

Serious question. Are these "bot trolls" that are bumping threads like this one? It seems threads that are several years old get routinely bumped by a registered user and every single time the bump includes a link to a product. There is no way a live person decided to search for a thread on why cats sleep so much and bumped a thread from three years ago, and just coincidentally, needed to add a advertisement for a cat food bowl to the post. It seems much more likely that a "bot" searched the messageboard for cat posts and posted the advertisement link. I've seen posts for casinos/gambling get bumped from years ago that have a link to an online gaming site attached. Can "bots" search random messageboards and post troll posts like this?

cat lover wrote:

furballs wrote:

I mean, they're not doing high mileage! Or are they?

it's because cats are lazy that's why. and when they sleep they grow more hair that sheds all over your couch.. carpet etc... cats are useless creatures. they scratch your eyes out.. they bite and hiss. if you have two cats. tie their tails together and throw them up on a telephone wire.

Amen. Cats can go to hell. I'm allergic too, so yes I'm biased. Don't care

ModsRDirtBags wrote:

Cats are phenomenal pets. If you don't like cats I don't like you.

Not liking someone because they happen to not like cats is about the dumbest reason to dislike someone and says a hell of a lot more about you than the random other person who you immediately hit with a negative label. Grow up dude.

Here’s a fun thing to do.

Take a rope or yarn or something visible and on the floor where you cat likes to roam or sit, make a circle about 2-3 feet in circumference. After inspecting it, your cat will sit or lay inside the circle. Will never sit or lay just outside of it.

I can tell when my cat took a dump by smelling his @ss. 2 hour @ss smell , much different than 6 hour smell .

smilodon wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Domestic cats don't get so bored if they're allowed to roam freely.

Add cats to the list of things .you know nothing about

Add "smilodon" to the list of bitter nobodies who got punked by my posts.

As always, take my advice: find things you LIKE and focus on them. Don't waste your time lashing out because you're not enjoying yourself. Who put you where you are? You did.

hehe haha ho a person on the internet claiming to hate cats because it annoys them that people on the internet always talk about how they love cats and this attention the species gets makes them feel bad because they never received any love or attention as a child and it irks them so much that a human could love a creature while their own parents could not love them