Did you know that the average cat sleeps from 16 to 18 hours per day and that even while asleep, remains alert to even the slightest stimuli? Only two animals in nature’s diverse kingdom sleep longer; the bat and the opossum, napping away almost twenty hours of every day. It is perhaps the vestige of the predator in their souls that make cats endless viewers of all they survey and vice verse. Nobody really knows why they sleep as much as they do, but it is known that their sleep patterns are crepuscular, meaning most active at dawn and dusk. … Continue reading →