Sleeping Cats.

Ella Mullins, Flickr By Dr. Patty Khuly, via Vetstreet It's no secret that cats are impressive sleepers. In fact, they typically get between 10 to 16 hours of shut-eye each day. That's more than most mammals--except for bats and opossums, who are known to slumber up to 20 hours per day. Biologists pin this feline affinity for sleep on two things: Their typically protein-rich diet, which requires long periods of rest to aid in proper digestion, and their naturally crepuscular (dawn and dusk) predatory pattern, which means cats tend to hunt twice daily and then rest in between. Although there's a lot of individual variation among domesticated felines, indoor cats are more likely to snooze ...

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It's been less than one month since our "Catnaps" roundup, but the Web's appetite for sleeping-cat videos is as inexhaustible as these cats are exhausted. Too soon to revisit the subject? Never! 1. Falling Asleep Sitting Upright There are a few standard feline sleeping positions with which all cat owners will be familiar. There's the light resting "meatloaf" position, or the curled-up-in-a-ball position. But when you catch your cat in an unusual posture like this, you know they're nappin' hard. 2. More Feline Narcolepsy This is the spiritual sequel to the famous "Deadly Sleeping Cat." The cat fights sleep, fights sleep, fights sleep, and... ZONK! Why is this version better than the ...

You might remember that a couple of weeks ago, we ran a retrospective on sleeping cats, which required little justification given how self-evidently cute sleeping cats are. But we do feel the need to reiterate that a large part of what makes things cute is size, i.e. small equals cute. This is why our retrospective mainly featured kittens and small cats. Now, far be it from us to suggest that Shanta the lioness here isn't cute. We would never say that, mainly because we don't want to risk offending her and catching a clawed pat to the face or a fanged maw to the jugular. But then, that's just it. If cute and terrifying can coexist, than that's what's happening right here. Because as cuddly ...

People love looking at cat videos on the Internet. That's a major part of what we're about here at Paw Nation. Cat videos are so ubiquitous on the web, there's a seemingly infinite number of subsets you could choose of the larger set of cat videos in general. Today, we're going to focus on one of those subsets. These are the best sleeping-cat videos ever seen on Paw Nation (and one new one, for freshness). 1. Falling Asleep While Watching TV Look at how bored this kitten is watching TV. You just know he's about to doze off. He fakes us out with a sudden burst of energy, but then the inevitable happens, and he's out like a light. ...